Alex Levin
Principal AI Backend Engineer at Legato AI
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Levin is a Principal AI Backend Engineer based in Tel Aviv with 11 years of experience blending software engineering and data science to deliver production-grade ML systems. He has led data infrastructure, anomaly detection, and conversational intent projects using tools like Spark, Dask, Luigi, and DialogFlow, and has deep practical experience deploying services on AWS and Google Cloud. His background spans video and image optimization at Beamr, large-scale server infrastructure at Siemens, and hands-on R&D and POCs with fast.ai and Prophet at Twiggle. Alex combines rigorous academic training in math and CS with a pragmatic engineering mindset, often bridging research prototypes to reliable backend pipelines. An underappreciated strength is his cross-domain fluency—from C++ performance work to Python data stacks—which helps him optimize both model quality and system scalability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics Computer Science, BA Mathematics Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Tel Aviv Academic College
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (72)
python10
scikit10
statistics10
data-science10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
scikit-learn10
nlp8
api8
cython8
turkish8
language-processing8
natural-language-processing8
text-classification8
fairness-ml7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
salexln/FinalProject_FCM
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
salexln/spark
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 2 months
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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