Alexis Candelaria
Founder at CAIROSAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexis Candelaria is a founder and seasoned iOS-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building social and multimedia products from startups to major platforms in the Bay Area. He has shipped consumer-facing features at Epic Games/Houseparty, contributed to YouTube Shorts at Google, and led mobile product work as a Senior iOS Engineer at Patreon. Equally comfortable in product design and low-level algorithm work, he’s implemented optimized data structures and recursive solutions in open-source Cracking the Coding Interview Python repos. His background includes CI automation, analytics frameworks, and UX-driven mobile features like external keyboard support and a trie-based game spell checker—signals of a pragmatic engineer who cares about both developer velocity and end-user experience. A Code2040 fellow and San José State alum, Alexis now channels his multidisciplinary experience into founding CAIROSAI in San Francisco.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversitySanta Teresa High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
memoization10
python10
data-structure10
recursion10
data-structures10
permutation9
ecto6
uitextfield6
xcode6
iphone6
phoenix-framework6
resque6
elixir6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
careercup/CtCI-6th-Edition-Python
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Cracking the Coding Interview 6th Ed. Python Solutions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alexis implemented solutions to several problems from "Cracking the Coding Interview" using Python. They focused on algorithms and data structures, creating recursive and memoized solutions for problems like robot grid paths and power sets. The contributions included various solutions for recursive multiplication and permutation problems, with examples and test cases for each.
crackingpythonpython3cracking-the-coding-interview
acandelaria1/TeamGQL
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 18 days
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangorestfulcomparison
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