Alex Fiannaca
Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Fiannaca is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending accessibility research and production engineering, currently at Google DeepMind after leading human-AI interaction work on the PAIR team. He has a strong track record shipping real-world iOS experiences like Microsoft Soundscape and designing spatial audio and AR/VR navigation systems for people with visual impairments. His background spans top-tier academic research (CHI, ASSETS, CSCW) and applied development, informed by MS degrees from Nevada and the University of Washington. Equally comfortable in design and systems engineering, he builds infrastructure that enables novel interaction experiences rather than just prototypes. An alum of the NAE 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, he brings a rare mix of published HCI scholarship and production-grade accessibility engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Nevada, RenoValedictorian Honors Diploma, Valedictorian Honors Diploma at Spanish Springs High School
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Github Skills (40)
python9
machine-learning9
delete8
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
neural-network8
filesystem7
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
remove7
getjson6
appcenter6
nodejs6
android6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hcrlab/Kubi
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:24 PRs, 157 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
kotlinandroid-studioandroid
CSE512-15S/fp-fiannaca-sonyaa
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:62 PRs, 204 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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