Alex Libov
Applied Science Manager at Amazon
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Libov is an Applied Science Manager at Amazon leading a team in Shopping Personalization, with a decade of experience building recommendation and relevance systems for voice and e-commerce. He holds a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems from the Technion and started his career researching mail search and kNN search frameworks at Yahoo Research. Alex blends deep academic rigor with product-focused ML engineering—having contributed to early Alexa Shopping relevance models and implemented CPU/GPU kNN solutions and PQ approximations. He also teaches object-oriented programming at the Technion, earning teaching excellence awards, which underscores his ability to mentor researchers and engineers alike. Comfortable switching between low-level systems work (C++/Perl/XML during early CAD tooling) and applied ML research, he excels at turning complex distributed algorithms into production-grade personalization features.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Distributed Systems, Ph.D. Distributed Systems at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Russian, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
1,491reputation
84kreached
83answers
1question
hive
top-5%
Github Skills (8)
hive9
algorithm6
parquet6
hadoop6
sql6
hiveql6
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binary-search-tree6
Github contributions (2)
alibov/StreamAid
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
alibov/skill-samples-java
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 day
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