Alex Berke
Research Scientist at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Berke is a research scientist and computational privacy researcher with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, turning commercial surveillance data into public goods, and applying technical rigor to social impact problems. Currently focused on digital privacy and covert tracking at Google, his PhD work treated cities as complex systems and explored how to repurpose commercial data for public benefit. He brings deep production engineering chops—from improving the Kazoo telecom platform and scaling Mast Mobile to fighting disinformation in Google Search and architecting campaign-scale email systems for Hillary For America. Alex is comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, deploying new technologies to scale and influence policy through institutions like Brookings. A math nerd and MIT Press author of a math coloring book, he pairs formal mathematical thinking with pragmatic systems design.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
erlang10
data-integration9
sql-database9
apidoc9
sms9
api9
sms-messages9
databases9
couchdb8
amqp7
git5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
2600hz/kazoo
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
The core of an open-source, distributed, highly scalable platform designed to provide robust telecom services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 35 PRs, 101 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the core functionality of the Kazoo telecom platform. Their work involved modifying the back-end logic, specifically within the `crossbar` application, to improve resource validation and error handling. Additionally, the user made changes to SMS functionality, including message handling and database interactions. Several commits involved improving the functionality and integration of different callflow modules within the system.
telecomscalableiotdistributed
aberke/my-site
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:53 commits, 28 PRs, 83 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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