Alex Miłowski
Builder at MLCommons
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Miłowski is an experienced engineering leader, serial entrepreneur, and Ph.D. computer scientist based in San Francisco with 20 years building production-grade ML, data and web systems. He has held roles from IC to CTO and VP of Engineering, repeatedly shipping cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes-driven MLOps, and knowledge-graph solutions that bridge research and production. His work spans graph databases, NLP, ML, and scalable data pipelines—highlighted by contributions improving authentication and LDAP integration to the well-known eXist-db XML database. At startups and research organizations he’s designed secure service infrastructures, automated laboratory-to-ML workflows for genomics, and led platform teams to accelerate data scientist productivity. Currently he contributes to MLCommons benchmarking of LLM knowledge extraction and is building new ML-driven tooling at ReevoAI. Colleagues rely on him for turning deep academic expertise into practical, reliable systems that scale.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghMA Mathematics, MA Mathematics at San Francisco State UniversityBS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of MinnesotaAA Liberal Arts, AA Liberal Arts at Bemidji State University
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Github Skills (11)
xml10
javas10
ldap10
user-authentication10
authentication10
xml-database10
java10
security10
webdav9
xquery8
marklogic6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eXist-db/exist
Feb 2006 - Nov 2010
eXist Native XML Database and Application Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:250 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the eXist-db Native XML Database project by implementing and enhancing security features. Their work included adding an LDAP security manager for read-only access, supporting both plain and digested MD5 encrypted passwords, integrating LDAP authentication with WebDAV support, and updating user management capabilities. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving authentication, user management, and overall security within the eXist-db project.
nosqlxml-databasexmlxprocxquery
alexmilowski/littleflow
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
A flow language
Contributions:35 commits, 5 PRs, 61 pushes in 6 months
compilerprogramming-language
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