# Alex Liu

> Software Engineer at Rippling

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexliu

Full stack software engineer and tech lead at Fieldguide (an automation and collaboration platform for Risk Advisory Services backed by 8VC, Floodgate, YC). 

I've delivered on multiple zero to one features while driving engineering rigor throughout the product to support greater scale. I enjoy doing whatever it takes to delight customers and make a business impact, whether it be fixing UI or tuning database queries.

After pursuing a career in finance, I realized I was a builder at heart, and re-skilled to become a software engineer. Though I've switched careers, my passion for business, investing, and technology as a force for good persists.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer | HRIS Flow Platform @ Rippling
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, NY
From a Rippling SVP: "relentless"

HRIS sits at the center of Rippling’s "ripple." We sit upstream and downstream of nearly every product—payroll, benefits, IT, spend—owning critical integrations across the company. The job requires product sense, platform thinking, and the willingness to run through walls inside one of Rippling’s oldest, most complex codebases.

### Senior Research Fellow @ Contrary
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Contrary Research aims to be the best destination on the internet for anyone to understand any private tech company

https://research.contrary.com/search/alex%20liu

### Founding Engineer @ Fieldguide
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined as engineer #2, employee #5. Built core product / platform from the ground up. Full stack development in React, Apollo, GraphQL, Hasura, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS.

### Flow Volatility Trading Analyst @ Barclays Investment Bank
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
•	Joined Single Stock Equity Derivatives in the healthcare team, covering bio-tech, med-tech, pharma, distributors, etc. 
•	Researched and developed financial modelling app, built with R (Shiny) and Bloomberg API, to predict equity price distributions after bimodal events from the options chain. Used to identify and verify mispriced options.
•	Analyze catalysts – clinical trial statistics, FDA actions, litigation, conferences. Pitched trades that generated 100k+ in PnL

### Sales and Trading Summer Analyst @ Barclays Investment Bank
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
•	High Yield Trading, Macro Structuring, and eFX Trading. Analyzed client sensitivity to FX spreads using kdb, R.

### Equity Sector Specialist Intern @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts
• Assisted with 2 industry reviews (Indian Media, Plastics and Packaging) and 8 stock initiations; ran regressions in R
• Source, analyze, and interpret data from Bloomberg, Factset, Haver, Euromonitor, GLG, and Sell-Side Equity Research

### Undergraduate Researcher/Software Developer @ Harvard University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Petersham, MA (Harvard Forest)

### Research Assistant @ Amherst College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Amherst, MA


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science and History
Amherst College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Study Abroad in Computer Science
AIT-Budapest
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
Shanghai High School International Division
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-liu-siqing

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Last updated: 2026-03-22