Albert Meltzer
Head Of Creative Tech
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlbert Meltzer is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years driving AI/ML-driven products and large-scale ad-tech platforms from Redwood City. Currently Head of Creative Tech at Liftoff, he built a Creative ML practice that blends external models (OpenAI/CLIP) with proprietary ad content representations to lift customer KPIs and redefine creative performance. Previously he led 100+ engineers and data scientists at Walmart Global Tech and delivered high-impact ML targeting, measurement and revenue-driving products across display advertising. His background spans research and systems roles at Criteo, Yandex, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Intel, giving him deep fluency in real-time bidding, search relevance, and high-performance systems. An active contributor to the scalameta project, he has hands-on experience improving parsers and core language tooling—an indicator he still dives into code and core infrastructure despite executive scope. He combines rigorous academic training in CS and math with a knack for turning ML research into production systems that materially move business metrics.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Mathematics, M.S. Mathematics at St. Petersburg State UniversityM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityCert. Data Mining, Cert. Data Mining at Stanford University
Russian, Lithuanian
Github Skills (5)
functional-programming10
parser10
parsing10
parse10
scala10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scalameta/scalameta
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Library to read, analyze, transform and generate Scala programs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 635 reviews, 538 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily focused on enhancing the codebase by implementing changes in the core dialect and parsing functionalities, including new features. The user's contributions included allowing copying with internal vars and enabling another way to parse scaladoc, which involved changes to the parser, tests, and code. The user made modifications in various Scala files within the scalameta library to increase its functionality.
functional-programmingtransformmetaprogrammingsemanticdbsyntactic
kitbellew/scalafmt
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Code formatter for Scala
Contributions:1289 pushes, 3785 branches in 5 years 5 months
formatterscalacode-formatter
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.