Alex Shearer
Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Square
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Shearer is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience applying data-driven methods to drive business outcomes. At Square he leads an ML/DS team focused on optimizing marketing initiatives, managing with transparency, trust, and empathy while prioritizing operational excellence. His background spans product-facing data science roles at LinkedIn and Doximity where he built production ML pipelines in Spark, Python, and Airflow and translated technical results for non-technical stakeholders. Alex holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from UC Berkeley, bringing a rigorous experimental and analytical mindset to model development and evaluation. He combines hands-on modeling and production experience with people leadership, and his early work in automated lab data pipelines and published research hints at a deep appreciation for measurement, reproducibility, and clear communication.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ThBrokenToaster/Hothead
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
A Game
Contributions:26 PRs, 58 pushes, 23 branches in 11 months
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ShearerAWS/shearerAWS.github.io
Sep 2018 - Jun 2023
Personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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