Alexandru Catighera
Staff Software Engineer at Chime
Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandru Catighera is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years building privacy-conscious data and SaaS products, currently leading engineering efforts at Chime after a long tenure as Principal Software Engineer at DailyPay. He blends deep full-stack experience—from Ruby on Rails back ends and Rails deployment automation to native mobile SDKs and WebRTC streaming—anchored by a BS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon. His work at Ghostery shows a sustained focus on privacy tooling and consumer-facing products, including a side-built iOS app that reached ~100k users and a patented ad-control approach leased to industry groups. Comfortable mentoring and running cross-functional engineering initiatives, he has also owned sysops, deployment, and API/reporting tooling at scale. Based in Ridgefield, CT, he brings a pragmatic balance of startup agility and enterprise-grade architecture, with a particular knack for shipping privacy-first features that integrate web, mobile, and backend systems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (66)
sidekiq10
uiwebview9
ruby9
python9
machine-learning9
cocoapods9
background-processing9
neural-network8
deep-learning8
amazon-web-services8
delve8
tensorflow8
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
activerecord6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ghostery/banshee
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:19 commits, 1 comment in 11 months
uiwebviewbrowserswiftiosuikit
acatighera/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 11 years 4 months
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