# Alex Leow

> Product | Software

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexleow

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Benchling
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Co-Founder @ Med.ID
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Singapore

### Technical Product Manager @ Workstream (previously: Workdone)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California

### Software Engineer Intern @ Workstream (previously: Workdone)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California

### Curriculum Planning Assistant - CS2103 Software Engineering @ National University of Singapore
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Singapore
Assisted professors redesigning class curriculum to focus on skills used in the industry.
• Wrote course reference material and codebase used in first half of class
• Reviewed and approved student submissions

### Google Summer of Code - Core Developer @ TEAMMATES
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Singapore
Shortlisted for GSOC to work on TEAMMATES, an EdTech peer review platform used by institutions from 96 countries.
• Led system architecture refactoring to simplify maintenance and extensibility
• Identified critical user actions and implemented strong data consistency
• Reviewed and merged work from 20+ contributors
• Designed and implemented optimistic UI update engine

### Facebook Open Academy - Student Developer @ Socket.IO
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Singapore
Shortlisted for Facebook’s Open Academy Program to work on Socket.IO, a most depended-upon npm real-time networking package used by Microsoft, Trello, Zendesk, and more. 
• Upgraded dev-ops tooling to be more extensible and OS-agnostic with GulpJS, Webpack, and ESLint
• Built an engine demo supporting 100+ real-time connections
• Wrote docs and getting-started guide used on project’s main website

### Teaching Assistant @ National University of Singapore
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Singapore
Subjects: CS1020 Data Structures and Algorithms I, CS2100 Computer Organization.
• 5.0/5.0 student evaluation score

### Combat Medic @ Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Singapore
Keeping Darwin's enforcers at bay. ✌


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Focus (Honours with Distinction)
National University of Singapore
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Management Science & Engineering - Entrepreneurship Studies
Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Silicon Valley in Batch 31
NUS Overseas Colleges
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### GCE Advanced Level (Sciences)
Temasek Junior College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/alexleow
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexleow/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-23