Alex Ilin
Principal Data Scientist, Central AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Ilin is a Principal Data Scientist with 11+ years of experience building and leading high-impact data teams across Meta, LinkedIn, and Atlassian, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines deep technical expertise in causal modeling, search and recommendation quality, and GenAI tooling with a track record of scaling teams and analytics products that drove measurable growth and international expansion. Alex has led initiatives that translated research into product decisions—such as pivoting VR metrics for product-market fit and reducing empty search results threefold—while operationalizing automated safeguards for Trust vs. Growth trade-offs. At LinkedIn he drove adoption of an internal GenAI analytics tool to 400+ weekly users, demonstrating an ability to deliver both developer-facing platforms and strategic insights for CxO-level decisions. Trained in theoretical and mathematical physics (MIPT), he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with practical product judgment and a history of mentoring and hiring to rapidly increase team output.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Science - MS Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, French, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
database6
entity-attribute-value6
database-design6
mysql6
prediction5
prediction-model5
minecraft4
survival4
python3
diabetes3
machine-learning2
react2
social-media2
frontend2
rss1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
payalnik/pyt-vanilla-html
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reisner/survival
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Survival prediction tools.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
pythonpredictionsurvival-predictionmachine-learningdiabetes
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