Alexander Chiu
Staff Engineer at Primer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Chiu is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience blending electronic engineering, computer vision research, and production software and data systems. After an MEng focused on autonomous navigation, he spent five years building big-data solutions for telecommunications and intelligence clients before moving to bol.com to tackle search and recommendations at scale. Since 2024 he has been rebuilding payments and commerce infrastructure at Primer, progressing from Senior Data Engineer to Staff Engineer. He combines a strong academic foundation (BEng and MEng cum laude) with practical experience across ML, data engineering and backend systems, and brings a track record of moving research-grade vision and robotics thinking into robust, production-ready services. An understated strength is his cross-domain fluency—he comfortably bridges hardware-rooted problem solving with large-scale e-commerce and payments engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) (Research) Cum Laude Electronic Engineering (Robotics), Master of Engineering (MEng) (Research) Cum Laude Electronic Engineering (Robotics) at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (43)
relational9
factory9
searching9
protobuf9
database9
command-line-tool9
crypto8
grpc8
sql-database8
python8
curl8
embedded-database8
sql8
finance8
analytics8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexanderchiu/AudioProcessor
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
alexanderchiu/alexanderchiu.github.io
Jun 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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