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Alexander
Liu

Full-stack engineering leader with 12+ years shipping production systems in healthcare & fintech — from HIPAA-compliant platforms to internationally scaled React Native apps.

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12+
Years Experience
3
Companies
91%
Test Coverage
3
Global Markets
TypeScript React Native AWS HIPAA AI-Assisted Dev React Python CI/CD
Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Expert at leading high-priority technical projects end-to-end, systematizing engineering knowledge into reusable team assets, and leveraging AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery velocity.

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Frontend

ReactReact Native TypeScriptJavaScript ES6+ ReduxHTML5CSS/SASS
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Backend & Infrastructure

PythonDjango REST APIsAWS KubernetesPostgreSQL
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Testing & Quality

JestBDD Integration TestingBrowserStack GitHub ActionsCI/CD
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AI-Assisted Development

ClaudeGitHub Copilot CursorPrompt Engineering
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Compliance & Security

HIPAAPHI Handling Data Subject RequestsGDPR Workflows
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Mobile & DevOps

App Store ConnectGoogle Play KotlinNew Architecture RNGit
Career

Experience

12+ years building production systems across healthcare, fintech, and digital health — from co-founder to senior engineering leader.

Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2022 — Present
Click Therapeutics, Inc.
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10× faster delivery: Led React Native upgrade v68→v78 using Claude Sonnet to scope multi-package dependency upgrades — reducing cycle from ~1 month of overtime to 2 days–2 weeks.
  • Authored an AI-assisted RN upgrade checklist capturing historical failure patterns; adopted team-wide, compounding time savings across future migration cycles
  • Designed a locale-based folder structure & feature flag architecture enabling granular, region-specific configuration across US, UK, and Japan market launches
  • Built a BDD + integration testing framework in Jest from scratch, driving code coverage to 91% and materially improving QA efficiency across all global product configurations
  • Iterated on CI/CD pipelines to remove legacy dependencies; used GitHub Copilot to accelerate code reviews and build error analysis
  • Participated in first-ever DSR execution via kubectl/AWS, identified process gaps, and authored an updated DSR Playbook adopted for all subsequent compliance requests
React Native TypeScript Jest / BDD Claude AI HIPAA AWS / kubectl Kotlin
Front-End Developer
Feb 2018 — Feb 2022
Money-Media (Financial Times)
  • Rebuilt the front-end ecosystem for major global financial publications (FundFire, Ignites, Agenda) using React and TypeScript, delivering a responsive, high-performance reading experience at scale
  • Designed and shipped a custom React-based WYSIWYG CMS, empowering editorial teams to manage and publish real-time financial headlines without engineering dependency
  • Built a full JSON-to-PDF pipeline with custom UI, enabling editors to dynamically generate branded hard-copy financial reports on demand
React TypeScript CMS PDF Pipeline Financial Times
Co-Founder & Full Stack Developer
Mar 2012 — Feb 2017
Treatspace Inc.
  • Designed, architected, and shipped a HIPAA-compliant referral network platform from MVP to market, owning both product strategy and full-stack execution
  • Built all back-end infrastructure including RESTful APIs and database schemas in Django/Python, handling sensitive PHI in compliance with HIPAA requirements
  • Created a full design system in SASS/CSS supporting complex user profile management and intuitive data entry workflows for a non-technical user base
Django Python HIPAA / PHI Full-Stack Founder SASS/CSS
Background

Education

B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Class of 2012 · Pittsburgh, PA
Let's Build
Something Great

I'm always interested in new opportunities, challenging problems, and teams that care about quality. Reach out — I'd love to connect.

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