Alex Salcianu
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Salcianu is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with a PhD from MIT and over 25 years of engineering experience across research and production systems. He blends deep academic expertise in program analysis and compact neural networks with hands-on impact building large-scale inference tooling—authored t5bulk for t5x and now a core contributor to Gemini bulk inference at Google DeepMind. His work spans on-device NLP shipped to Android and Chrome (1B+ installs) to infrastructure that enabled hundreds of corporate launches, demonstrating a rare ability to move ideas from paper to production. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has led small teams, improved release and resource planning processes with ILP, and delivered highly accurate performance tools in critical services. Notably, his t5x contributions earned him authorship on the t5x paper, reflecting influence in both research and engineering communities.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
python6
gpu5
machine-learning5
automatic-differentiation5
pytorch5
autodiff4
jit4
numpy3
composable3
tpu3
jax3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
salcianu/stat-nlp-nyu
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 28 days
nlpdata-sciencelanguage-processingstatisticalmachine-learning
cscott/Harpoon
Jan 2000 - Jan 2006
Contributions:755 commits in 6 years
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