Alexander Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Asana
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building large-scale products at industry leaders including Meta and Asana. He moved up through hands-on engineering roles at Meta from intern to senior engineer, contributing to developer tooling such as a browser-based mobile device testing workflow that reduced local setup overhead for Android testing. At Asana he continues to focus on reliable, production-grade systems and cross-team collaboration. His background blends computer science and physics from the University of Maryland, reflecting a problem-solving approach grounded in analytical rigor. Alexander’s early research and internships at NIST and Amazon show a long-standing interest in applied tooling and performance-sensitive software. He combines deep platform experience with a pragmatic track record of shipping developer-facing solutions that improve engineering productivity.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Physics at University of MarylandMontgomery Blair High School
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (43)
package-management10
seq10
conda10
gene-expression10
probabilistic10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
single-cell-genomics9
affinity9
bioconda9
sequencing8
bioconductor8
slurm8
gridengine7
aws7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Irrationone/cellassign-paper
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Analysis pipelines for cellassign manuscript
Contributions:4 PRs, 201 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pipelinegenomicsbioinformaticspipelinesmanuscript
Irrationone/cv
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
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