Alex Chen
Backend Engineer at Smplfy
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChen Xiao is a CEO and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in high-frequency trading systems and low-latency engineering. After a decade of hands-on development at KAYAC and LINE Corp, he launched his own venture in 2021, applying product and technical leadership to trading-focused software in Yokohama. He combines deep systems-level expertise with a pragmatic, entrepreneurial mindset—able to move from algorithmic strategy to production-grade infrastructure. Trained at Tsinghua University, Chen is comfortable operating across the full stack and optimizing performance-sensitive pipelines. A detail that sets him apart is his transition from large consumer platforms to niche HFT applications, reflecting both breadth and a focus on speed and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Technology at South China Agricultural UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Northeastern University
Japanese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
javascript1
webview1
ios1
android1
unity3d1
Github contributions (5)
chenxiao07/opencv-sudoku
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
chenxiao07/minato-bot
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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