Alex Smirnoff
Advisory Head Of Engineering & AI at Luminoso Technologies, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Smirnoff is an advisory Head of Engineering & AI with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling engineering organizations and delivering cloud-native, ML-driven products. He has led teams of up to 45 engineers and managed multi-million dollar budgets while architecting systems across Python, JS, PostgreSQL, native mobile, and AWS, with practical ML work in PyTorch and TensorFlow. Alex combines startup agility—co-founding and shipping MVPs quickly—with enterprise rigor from defense and aerospace programs where he implemented CMMI-compliant processes and earned-value management. Recently he has focused on generative AI applications and agentic pipelines for healthcare data platforms, blending production-grade orchestration (SageMaker, Fargate, Lambda) with RAG and retrieval-agent patterns. Known for turning around late projects and reducing defects through process re-engineering, he brings a rare mix of systems engineering discipline and product-focused experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityM.S. Aerospace Engineering Engineering Mathematics, M.S. Aerospace Engineering Engineering Mathematics at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
French, Russian
Github Skills (17)
natural-language-understanding9
pre-trained-model9
google9
nlp8
python8
deep-learning8
bert8
natural-language-processing8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
javascript8
js7
neural-network6
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pastrop/pyProjects
Jul 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
pastrop/Javascripting
Jul 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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