Alex Ani
Senior Engineering Manager & Architect, Mission Software Engineering, Edge AI, Compute & Comms at www.alexanikiev.dev
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Ani is a Senior Engineering Manager and Architect with a PhD in Applied Mathematics who builds mission-critical distributed software for autonomous systems, Edge AI and hybrid cloud inference at scale. With eight years in senior engineering leadership and a deep history at Microsoft, he designs GPU/CPU/NPU-heavy edge datacenters, telemetry and control planes for robotic and AV fleets while optimizing compute and power efficiency. He blends player-coach leadership with hands-on architecture—leading cross-disciplinary teams to deploy products with strategic customers and co-engineer solutions with top AI accelerator and networking partners. Alex is fluent across MLOps, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA Omniverse/Isaac toolchains, and has practical experience operationalizing multi-modal LLMs and large-scale computer vision on hundreds of thousands of edge nodes. Beyond corporate roles he authors technical content, shares OSS projects, and collaborates with stealth startups on Physical AI and agentic intelligence, bringing academic rigor to production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian, Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
sdk8
dotnet7
azure7
fbx6
speech6
csharp6
3d6
azure-functions6
python6
graphic6
pytorch6
microsoft6
php-library5
dotnet-core5
php5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexanikiev/Azure-EmbodiedAI-Sample
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Embodied AI Sample Unity project using Microsoft Azure Cloud and Edge
Contributions:26 commits, 9 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 months
embodied-aiunity-projectedgeunityazure-cloud
alexanikiev/synscenepy
May 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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