Alex Bannon
Head Of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning at Knology
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Bannon is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years in software engineering and a decade of leadership experience, currently heading AI and ML engineering at Personio from New York. He has led cross-functional teams at scale—building content classification and UGC moderation systems at Spotify, managing $3B payments engineering at Zip Co, and launching fintech products as a co-founder—bridging ML, backend, and data engineering domains. Alex is pragmatic about delivery: instituting CI, boosting test coverage to 90%, migrating monoliths to microservices, and embedding agile hiring and DEI practices like pair programming over whiteboard bias. His background mixes humanities and technical depth (BA in Philosophy, MS in Computer Science), which he leverages to translate complex technical decisions into clear business outcomes. As a board member at Knology he applies tech for social-impact research, a less obvious thread that complements his product- and growth-oriented career.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Hunter CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at Boston University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (42)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexbannon/wanderlist
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:34 PRs, 128 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
alexbannon/flake
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
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