Alexander Yee
Software Developer Design Verification
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Yee is a software developer specializing in design verification, high-performance and parallel computing with 12 years of experience across finance, cloud, and research environments. Based in San Francisco, he has applied low-level optimization and numerical library expertise at Citadel Securities, Headlands Technologies, and Google, and now works at Etched AI. A hands-on hardware enthusiast who builds and overclocks machines to stress-test systems, he blends practical hardware know-how with software craftsmanship to squeeze out performance. His background includes research-driven DSP library development at UIUC and tooling for Windows performance at Microsoft, reflecting a career that bridges academic rigor and production engineering. Notably, he has spent significant time in HFT-style optimization and a two-year non-compete period that signals careful role transitions and domain focus.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Palo Alto High SchoolBS Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
char10
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optimization10
hex10
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Mysticial/Pokemon-SwSh-Seed-Generator
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Mysticial/ProtoNTT
Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 3 years
primestransformnttmultiplication-algorithmmultiplication
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