Alex Latchford
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Latchford is a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer with 13 years building large-scale big data and ML platforms, currently leading Zillow's Big Data efforts from Seattle. He pioneered Zillow's adoption of Kubeflow for its AI platform, re-architecting training and inference pipelines that enabled rapid business scaling and broader platform self-service. Alex combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—mentoring teams, driving open-source-first approaches, and shipping reliable, production-grade systems across ETL, MLOps and deployment tooling. An active contributor to the Kubeflow Pipelines project, he has improved SDK usability, docs and CLI ergonomics to make ML workflows more accessible. He pairs pragmatic product focus with deep systems expertise, having repeatedly taken fledgling initiatives to mature, high-throughput platforms.
13 years of coding experience
BSc(Hons) Computer Science, BSc(Hons) Computer Science at Nottingham Trent UniversityIsleworth & Syon
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
python10
kubeflow10
machine-learning10
mlops10
sdk10
kubernetes-pods10
data-science9
pipeline9
docker8
dockers8
gcp7
e-mail6
abstract6
amazon-ses6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubeflow/pipelines
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Machine Learning Pipelines for Kubeflow
Role in this project:
MLOps Engineer
MLOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the KFP (Kubeflow Pipelines) SDK, particularly its documentation and usability. They cleaned up docstrings, improved formatting consistency, and updated documentation for KFP extensions. The user also addressed code-related issues, including Kubernetes constraint updates, and enhancements to the CLI experience related to archiving experiments and listing resources. Further contributions include fixes related to data passing within the SDK and improvements to recurring run management.
kubeflowmachine-learningkubeflow-pipelinesmlopskubernetes
zillow/battenberg
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Providing updates to cookiecutter projects.
Contributions:11 reviews, 87 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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