Alex Pilafian
Senior Software Engineer at SITA
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Pilafian is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience building production systems spanning machine learning, real-time web, and large-scale backend services. He led development of a deep reinforcement learning-driven algorithmic trading platform and authored a general-purpose RL framework using TensorFlow and Hydra, while combining Python for ML with Go for performance-critical components. As founder and technical lead at WindFish Studio he shipped a complex simulation game platform using Elixir, Kubernetes, AWS, ThreeJS and Electron, and earlier roles show deep full-stack and data engineering chops from Hadoop MapReduce to AngularJS front-ends. Comfortable moving between research-grade ML and pragmatic engineering, he has a track record of turning acquired IP into working products and managing small cross-functional teams. An unconventional strength is his ability to blend high-performance systems programming with polished client experiences, making him effective across the entire software lifecycle.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityGeneral Studies, General Studies at Dobson High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (85)
dqn9
elixir9
q-learning8
scalable8
webstorm8
appcode8
functional-programming8
pan8
reinforcement-learning8
rubymine8
sphere8
programming-language7
file-format7
backend7
clion7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
windfish-studio/three-map-controls
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Map controls class for threeJS (pan and zoom with respect to a THREE.Plane or Sphere)
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 65 pushes in 11 months
webglzoom-and-panjavascriptthreejspan
windfish-studio/region-labels
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Automatically generate labels for 2D geographic regions
Contributions:79 pushes, 2 branches, 9 tags in 2 years
map-labelregionsnpm-packagejavascriptgis
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