Alex Soares
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Soares is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 13 years of experience building machine learning-driven search, ranking, and personalization systems at scale. At Google he leads teams applying large language models, TensorFlow, and learning-to-rank techniques to information retrieval and recommendation problems, while mentoring dozens of engineers. His background spans algorithm design, distributed systems, cryptography and anti-fraud work from earlier roles, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical rigor and production-hardened engineering. He holds advanced training in computer science from top Brazilian universities and contributes algorithmic code publicly on GitHub. Notably, his work includes practical advances in debiasing click data for ranking and secure payment infrastructure design, showing both ML research instincts and applied security expertise.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Universidade Federal de ViçosaComputer Engineer, Computing and Engineering, Computer Engineer, Computing and Engineering at Universidade Estadual de CampinasUniversity of São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (4)
machine-learning2
probabilistic2
python2
deep-learning1
Github contributions (5)
alxsoares/algorithms
Feb 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:538 commits in 5 months
alxsoares/pyprobml
Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 push in 3 years 9 months
python-codepythonperspectivedeep-learningmachine-learning
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