Alexander Chan
Data Engineering Manager (Staff)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Chan is a data engineering manager with 11 years of experience building analytics platforms and leading teams at scale, currently driving data strategy for Reality Labs' wearables and AR products at Meta. He has a strong background in product and risk analytics from his earlier finance roles at Merrill Lynch, where he automated KPIs and migrated risk applications into production. At Meta he has grown teams from zero to nine, shaped technical roadmaps, and balanced cross-functional delivery with developer productivity and architectural rigor. Known for bridging quantitative rigor and pragmatic engineering, he pairs SQL/Python fluency with hands-on ownership of metric definitions and vendor integrations. Based in San Francisco and trained in operations research at Cornell, he brings a data-first approach to product measurement and system observability that surfaces actionable insights for complex, hardware-adjacent products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mountain Lakes High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Operations Research and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
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dotnet10
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computer-music10
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alfred-workflow10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alexchantastic/alfred-lipsum-workflow
Apr 2016 - Sep 2022
Alfred 4 workflow for generating lorem ipsum dummy text.
Contributions:14 releases, 43 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 5 months
alfred-4loremalfredipsumalfred-workflow
alexchantastic/alfred-open-with-vscode-workflow
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
Alfred 3 workflow for opening files or folders in Visual Studio Code.
Contributions:5 releases, 15 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years
visual-studiovisual-studio-codealfredalfred-3workflow
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