Alex Levin
Software Engineer at Yelp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Levin is a software engineer and machine learning practitioner with 11 years of experience, currently applying algorithmic and data-analysis expertise to product problems at Yelp in San Francisco. He holds advanced training in applied mathematics (PhD-level work at MIT) and a BA in Mathematics from Harvard, bringing rigorous quantitative foundations to production ML systems. His background spans academia, industry internships at Facebook, and quantitative work in finance, giving him a rare mix of research, production engineering, and analytics experience. At Yelp he has focused on integrating ML knowledge across product areas, prioritizing pragmatic solutions that scale. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges theory and engineering—comfortable deriving models while also shipping robust software. Outside day-to-day work he tends to gravitate toward algorithmic and data-driven challenges that yield measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Applied mathematics, PhD, Applied mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStuyvesant HSBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Harvard University
English, Russian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
mirai-bot7
garmin7
robot6
robotics5
san5
racket4
python3
simulation2
ros1
trajectory-generation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alevin/lib5507
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 29 pushes in 6 months
alevin/FRC_sandbox
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:61 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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