# Alex Mackowiak

> Staff Software Engineer at Anduril Industries

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

UIUC MCS graduate, building distributed systems at Anduril.
I have zero interest in finance, AI, crypto, or gambling, and do not respond to such inquiries.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY
- Designed and oversaw real-time, bandwidth-constrained, tag-based distribution of battlespace objects.
- Wrote an auto-adjusting publish scheduler for the above with a configurable bandwidth usage target.
- Oversaw implementation of my design for a bandwidth-optimized V3 core data replication layer, for rollout to 70+ clients in 4 languages across 12 orgs.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
- Shepherded adoption of a V2 core data replication layer to 35+ projects across 7 orgs.
- Benchmark tooling developed for the above later used to track down a year-old hardware regression.
- Forward deployed to the Valiant Shield 2024 wargames, recommending process improvements after.
- Synthesized research papers and industry standards to design a bandwidth-optimized V3 replication layer.

### Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, WA
- Designed and implemented the V1 of what would become Anduril's core data replication layer.
- Following initial support from my team, assumed sole ownership of our Data Lake suite of services.
- Created a containerized equivalent to Amazon Athena for SQL queries against offline environments.
- Spearheaded efforts to remove legacy uses of Apache Spark, standardizing SQL under one dialect.
- Redesigned track heatmaps to address RAM and CPU issues. Led to 10x faster large query results. 
- Vastly decreased support requests for our time-series database by creating an ergonomic query CLI.
- Wrote a library on top of BadgerDB to solve a critical production issue for a pivotal contract.

### Software Engineer - New Grad @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Orange County, California, United States
- Achieved 10x faster cloud storage deletions, saving the company from costly AWS cluster growth.
- Eliminated wasted traffic on our distributed mesh network via message tag filtering.
- Established comms paths and integrated UCI messaging for an early, major autonomous flight demo.
- Identified months-old latent data corruption in our largest customer account and led repair efforts.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Two Sigma
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York
Working as part of the Trading Engineering team, I wrote a novel API for low-latency computing.
This API managed thread pinning and isolation of CPU cores, ultimately enabling faster time-to-trade.

### CS 461 (Computer Security) Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Helped teach a course on computer security by proctoring exams and hosting office hours for the Application Security and Digital Forensics units.

### CS 126 (Software Design Studio) Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Taught and built critical infrastructure for a class on software design.
Across several semesters, my responsibilities included:
- Conducting student code reviews for seven class sections.
- Assigning students to provably optimal section times using constraint programming techniques.
- Writing all infrastructure for the annual student-AI-strategy tournament in Java (100+ participants!)

### Software Engineering Intern @ GoDaddy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Gilbert, Arizona
Acted as a full-time Hosting Foundation Services team member.
This primarily entailed working to enhance internal REST API functionality for the provisioning of virtual machines.
In later parts of the internship I also learned React with the Hosting UI team to improve upon back office tools.

### Software Engineering Intern @ SEKO Logistics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Itasca, Illinois
Developed an automated website testing framework using the Selenium API. Used this framework to adapt 80+ manual regression tests so they could run at the push of a button and email screenshots on failure.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30