Alex Salo
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Waco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Salo is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience blending Android platform engineering, sensor and camera-based ambient computing, and data-driven experimentation to create delightful user experiences. He brings deep expertise in Android internal frameworks, location platforms, data logging/analytics, and running A/B-style experiments at scale. His academic background spans computer science and world finance, and his graduate research produced a published predictive model for alcohol consumption using time-series and spectral analysis. Prior roles in analytics, process optimization, and product management reflect a rare mix of quantitative modeling, business-minded problem solving, and hands-on software delivery. Based in Waco, Texas, he pairs an entrepreneur’s curiosity with practical engineering—equally at home prototyping simulation algorithms in R or shipping complex Android platform features in Python- and Java-centric stacks. Outside work he’s passionate about visual design, travel, and finance, which inform his multidisciplinary approach to product and data.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), World finance, 3.6, Master of Arts (MA), World finance, 3.6 at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Systems, 3.76, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Systems, 3.76 at Voronezh State UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, 3.67, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.67 at Baylor University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
gtk8
wikipedia8
wikipedia-api8
qt8
matplotlib7
pythonic7
api7
python7
swift6
data-visualization6
macos6
password-generator6
tic-tac-toe6
avfoundation6
android6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexsalo/alexsalo.github.io
Dec 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:223 commits, 218 pushes in 1 year 7 months
alexsalo/matrr
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:165 commits, 55 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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