Summary
Alexander Drewno is a software engineer based in the Greater Chicago Area with a decade of hands-on experience building mobile and full-stack applications across healthcare, education research, and community platforms. He holds a CS + Math degree from UIUC and has shipped production iOS and cross-platform mobile apps, redesigned backend databases for scalability, and implemented systems-level features in Go and C++. Currently at Exact Sciences, he brings prior experience at startups and research labs where he maintained legacy apps for hundreds of users while launching redesigned versions compatible with diverse devices. Notably, he has translated multi-year research into product features and generated analytics from large user datasets to inform research and design decisions. Comfortable across the stack, Alexander blends rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic product delivery and a knack for turning research code into user-facing, maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign