Alexander Katz

Alexander Katz has worked in the software engineering industry since 2017. Alexander began their career as a Lab Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017, where they assisted students with lab sessions for MIT's Introduction to Machine Learning (6.036). That same year, they worked as an SDE intern at Amazon Lab126, where they developed and implemented machine learning-based systems deployed to the Alexa Prize competition and Alexa platform. In 2018, they worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT, where they developed curriculum, held recitations and office hours, and designed and evaluated quizzes and other coursework for MIT's Introduction to Algorithms (6.006). Alexander also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Airbnb, where they developed Airbnb's first deploy pipelining system. From 2019 to 2022, Alexander worked at Robinhood as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer. In this role, they led 30+ engineers across 8+ teams to develop the ACATS system, allowing customers to transfer brokerage accounts in and out of Robinhood, increasing projected company ARR by 9%. Alexander also drove and contributed to various projects scaling core clearing infrastructure >12x across 2020-21, including emergency scaling efforts in January 2021. Alexander helped grow the clearing organization from 12 -> 40+ engineers by serving as interim TL for a team of 6 engineers, formally mentoring several interns and new grads, and designing Robinhood's default coding interview problem. Currently, Alexander is working as a Software Engineer at Fragment.

Alexander Katz attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2019, where they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (dual).