Alex Degtiar
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tribe AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Degtiar is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 15 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems and ML platforms, most notably driving real-time inference, signal aggregation, and multi-region failover at Dropbox. He blends deep backend engineering—working on petabyte-scale storage, memcache reliability, and Go libraries—with hands-on ML ops: architecting MLflow frameworks, reproducible evaluation pipelines, and production benchmark datasets for pan-cancer RNA modeling. At Exai Bio he cut pipeline costs and modernized core apps while leading dataset creation and studies that directly informed modeling decisions; he also helps teams adopt GenAI tools through training and workshops. A pragmatic problem-solver, Alex has fixed tricky race conditions in popular internal Go tooling and repeatedly taken systems from prototype to 10–20× production scale. Now focused on applying technology for social good, he pairs rigorous academic training from CMU and UC Berkeley with a track record of operational excellence in cloud, infra, and ML.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (5)
go10
memcached10
testing10
concurrency9
software-quality9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/godropbox
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
Common libraries for writing Go services/applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the `godropbox` repository, which contains common Go libraries. Their work primarily involved enhancing the `memcache` package, specifically implementing and testing the `AddMulti` and `SetMulti` client interfaces. The user fixed race conditions and addressed various issues in the `raw_client_test.go` and `mock_client.go` files to ensure the reliability of the memcache client. Furthermore, the user made improvements for handling and validating values to improve overall code quality and reliability.
golang
adegtiar/Android-Activity-Tracker
Oct 2010 - Nov 2011
Contributions:183 commits in 1 year
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