Alec Chen is a Software Engineer at SpaceX since June 2025, with prior experience as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer at Lightspark from September 2023 to May 2025. Alec has also worked as an Open Source Developer at Summer of Bitcoin for a brief period in 2023 and completed internships as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer Intern at Palantir Technologies, a Software Engineer Intern at AbbVie, and a Data Science Intern at Procter & Gamble. Earlier experience includes a role as a Network Mathematics Researcher at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Alec holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy from 2017 to 2020.
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