Alvin Jou
Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Jou is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, production-grade systems across analytics and metadata platforms. He has driven impactful improvements at Snowflake and Tableau—optimizing query performance, designing a parallelized unique ID service with multi‑fold speedups, and patenting a novel calculation syntax for analytic composability. Comfortable across backend, data, and platform engineering, Alvin focuses on measurable gains (e.g., 4x–7x performance improvements and targeted pruning for Iceberg tables) while clarifying ownership and operational practices. He mentors engineers at all levels and has a track record of simplifying complex codebases and migration paths to new query interfaces. Based in Seattle and grounded in a CS degree from UIUC, Alvin pairs deep technical craftsmanship with cross-organizational collaboration to deliver reliable, scalable features. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he blends low-level optimization work with product-facing design, shipping both core infrastructure and user-impacting APIs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (6)
logfile10
log-viewer9
tableau9
android7
python3
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alv53/UIUCExpertSearch
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
alv53/VideoFormatter
Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
video-filesformatsvideomangaanime
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