Alex Nisnevich
Co-Founder at Something new
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Nisnevich is a seasoned engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building production-grade ML and conversational systems, now co-founding a new venture in Berkeley. At Microsoft he helped integrate and scale Semantic Machines' conversational agent into Cortana, Outlook, and Teams, and later prototyped LLM-powered experiences on the MSAI incubation team. His background spans data science, ML pipelines, and full-stack engineering—from EHR readmission models and Spark-based retention pipelines to Ruby and JS open-source contributions such as backend work on the Dynamoid DynamoDB ORM and a meta-JS game. Comfortable shipping both research-driven tooling and polished user interfaces, he combines rigorous academic training (UC Berkeley MS/BA) with a knack for turning ambiguous language problems into robust, production-ready systems. An understated strength: he repeatedly bridges research, product, and developer ecosystems to move prototypes into widely used, privacy-conscious deployments.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyOak Park High School
English, Russian
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
associations10
amazon-dynamodb10
javascript10
orm10
dynamodb10
game-development10
front-end-development10
codemirror10
aws-dynamodb10
aws-sdk10
user-interface9
html7
css6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AlexNisnevich/untrusted
Mar 2013 - Oct 2020
A meta-JavaScript adventure game by Alex Nisnevich and Greg Shuflin.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 813 commits, 131 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to a meta-JavaScript adventure game, starting with level 1 implementation and object creation helpers within game.js. They added keyboard handling and also implemented a way to load maps from files, and added a very primitive editor function. Further, they focused on basic UI elements and implemented improvements in styling.
gamejavascriptmetaadventure-gamealex
Dynamoid/dynamoid
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Ruby ORM for Amazon's DynamoDB.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Ruby ORM for DynamoDB. Their commits focused on modifying association logic within the library, including `belongs_to`, `has_one`, and `has_many` relationships. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to how ActiveSupport's methods interact with SingleAssociations. The user also made changes to the timestamps configuration and the AWS SDK v2 adapter.
aws-dynamodbtest-kitchenamazonrubydynamodb
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