Alexander Chai
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Chai is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg in New York with a decade of engineering experience and over seven years focused on production-grade software at Bloomberg. He brings a strong academic foundation from Carnegie Mellon (BSc in Computer Science and Discrete Math & Logic) and is advancing his studies with an M.Sc. at Columbia, blending rigorous theory with practical systems work. His background includes iOS development at Apple and research-driven frontend engineering on a Mozilla PDF.js notetaking project at CMU, demonstrating fluency across client-facing interfaces and backend systems. At Bloomberg he has progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, consistently delivering reliable, user-facing features in high-throughput financial environments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges research prototypes and production code, with a particular knack for translating complex UX requirements into robust implementations. Based in NYC and shaped by diverse internships and academic research, he brings both product sensitivity and engineering rigor to distributed, data-intensive applications.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Intermediate and High School, Intermediate and High School at Punahou SchoolM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Columbia UniversityB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySummer Study, Summer Study at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English, Japanese, KoreanGithub contributions (5)
chaikon/chaikon.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
chaikon/Bartle-Test-v.2.0-Beta-4
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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