# Alec Brickner

> Software Engineer @ Plaid

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alecbrickner

Engineer with over 6 years of experience specializing in investigating and fixing the weird, complex issues that scare everyone else off.

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Backend Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Backend Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto
CS155 - Computer and Network Security. As a TA, I taught concepts such as control flow hijacking, web security, and network security. My responsibilities involved holding 4 hours of office hours per week, and grading homework assignments and the final exam.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
CS103 - Mathematical Foundations of Computing. As a TA, I held 4 hours of office hours per week, helping students understand concepts such as proofwriting, first order logic, finite automata, and Turing machines. Additionally, I helped to grade weekly problem sets and three exams.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Shift Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Franciso
As an intern on the Pricing team, I worked on a variety of projects in Go relating to vehicle pricing and data gathering for use in Shift's pricing algorithm. My main project involved syncing Shift's vehicle repair data from a service called Shop-Ware onto Shift's own servers, allowing the data to be queried and analyzed by our business and growth team. I also worked on other high-impact tasks - for example, calculating prices for our entire vehicle inventory on a nightly basis, letting us follow current market trends.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Classy.org
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Diego
As an intern on the Pay team, I worked on integrating new types of payments, such as Bitcoin and Apple Pay. I also worked on various improvements on the API's backend, such as moving non API-related code from the main codebase onto Serverless.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
I worked on a neural network in the realm of object detection in Google's Street View, which involved exploring different methods of accurately labeling training data, generating training data at scale, then experimenting with hyperparameters to train the network.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Hulu
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Monica
As an intern on the Content Platform team, I worked on a program to detect improper video formatting (black matte bars or interlaced frames), which involved creating a new ffmpeg filter, in order to automate a process previously performed by humans.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Symbolic Systems
Stanford University

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alec-brickner

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Last updated: 2026-04-11