2x founder

Alex Chiou

Director of Engineering @ Handshake AI, Co-Founder @ Taro, Ex-Robinhood, Ex-Meta Tech Lead

Co-founder

Taro· Summer 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @AlexChiou

2025Director of Engineering· Handshake

Founder · since 2008

Company

Handshake

Role

Director of Engineering

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Taro

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Summer 2022

Experience

Career

Handshake
Director of Engineering · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Taro
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022 – Present
2022
Tech Career Growth Community - Alex & Rahul
Human Being · The Internet · 2021 – Present
2021
RandomAppsInc
Chief Durdle Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – Present
2013
Robinhood
Android Engineer · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
YouTube
Random YouTube Guy · Silicon Valley, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Instagram
Software Engineer · Menlo Park · 2018 – 2021
2018
Facebook
Android Engineer @ Portal, Facebook Building 8 · Menlo Park · 2017 – 2018
2017
Course Hero
Android Technical Lead · Redwood City, CA · 2016 – 2017
2016
Course Hero
Android Engineer · Redwood City · 2015 – 2016
2015
PayPal
Software Engineer · San Jose, CA · 2014 – 2015
2014
Shopzilla, Inc.
Engineering Intern · Los Angeles · 2013
2013
YouTube/Machinima Inc.
Founder
Partner · 2008 – 2013
2008
Deloitte (Formerly Bersin & Associates)
Engineering Intern · 2012
2012

Bio

Founder of Taro (joinTaro.com), which provides engineers with bite-sized actionable advice from top tech talent. Content is organized by company, level, and problem area. I love to build: I've published ~30 apps with 3 million installs combined in my free time. In high school, I built a YT channel with 50M+ video views. My cofounder Rahul and I organically built a community of 17K+ people called "Tech Career Growth", which inspired Taro. Prior, I was a TL at Robinhood, Meta, and Course Hero.