Alejandro Flores-velazco
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Flores-velazco is a software engineer at Google in New York with a 13-year track record that spans industry and academia, including a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland under Prof. David Mount. His research expertise lies in theoretical computer science—computational geometry, approximation algorithms, and data structures—with a practical focus on scalable, provably efficient nearest-neighbor classification. He has produced both heuristic and coreset-based training-set reduction techniques and designed data structures achieving state-of-the-art complexity for approximate nearest-neighbor queries. Alejandro pairs this research depth with hands-on engineering experience from internships at Facebook, teaching and course instruction at UMD, and leadership as a developer in Venezuela, enabling him to translate theory into production-ready systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who balances rigorous proofs with engineering pragmatism, often finding simple, efficient algorithmic reductions that make large-scale classification feasible.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Science, Cum Laude, BEng, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Universidad Simón BolívarMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.728, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.728 at University of Maryland
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
afloresv/ComoVotar
Jun 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
afloresv/Tutorial-GraphDB
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:47 commits in 22 days
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