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Alex Liu

Alex Liu

CTO & co‑founder at Prism AI — ex‑Palantir software engineer

San Francisco, California
Joined April 2025

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Summary

Founder & technical lead: Alex co‑founded Prism (YC S25) and serves as CTO, building an AI product-analytics system that watches session replays with vision models and generates developer insights. Prism's public launch and YC listing position the company as an AI‑first product analytics / observability startup. ycombinator+2
Product‑grade software engineering background: He spent several years at Palantir (internship then full‑time SWE) and completed SWE internships at AWS. His portfolio lists contributions to large platform projects (e.g., Palantir Apollo/Blueprint) and product integrations, indicating strengths in platform engineering and shipping production systems. alexliu+1
Research & ML foundation from Georgia Tech and GTRI: while at Georgia Tech he worked on capstone and research projects (e.g., EMADE AutoML work) that led to an arXiv conference paper. This shows capability with ML research, AutoML methods, and integrating signal/data preprocessing with model search. arxiv+1
Public maker / builder presence: maintains a personal portfolio (alexliu.co) and Product Hunt / X presence tied to Prism. He publicly shares product launches and commentary about product analytics and engineering, signaling an active founder/creator profile. alexliu+2

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Cooking, working out, and swimming (personal site / older personal overview) github+1