Alex Zakhvatov
Principal Product Manager - Core AI at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Zakhvatov is a Principal AI product leader with nearly two decades of experience designing and scaling AI platforms and inference solutions across enterprise and edge environments. He has led AI product efforts at Microsoft and DocuSign—driving Azure OpenAI performance optimizations, multi-agent workflows, and generative features that reach millions of users—while earlier work spans edge AI, vision frameworks, and sensor-driven products that shipped in major broadcasts. Known for bridging product strategy with deep technical execution, he builds high-performing PM organizations and partners with IHVs/ISVs to optimize model deployment, latency, and cost at scale. Alex blends startup grit (co-founding an IoT AI venture recognized by Israel’s Chief Scientist) with corporate impact, securing multi-hundred-million-dollar contracts on hardware-integrated projects. He holds an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School and a BSc in Physics from Hebrew University, a combination that informs both his technical intuition and commercial rigor. An understated strength: he repeatedly translates research and hardware constraints into production-grade ML APIs and platforms that enterprises actually adopt.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Duke University - The Fuqua School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (29)
pytorch10
ai-framework10
machine-learning10
accelerator10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
keras10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
scikit-learn10
high-performance10
directml9
coreml9
cross-platform9
qualcomm9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
alexzakv/onnxruntime
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
pytorchdeep-learningruntimemachine-learningonnx
microsoft/Windows-Machine-Learning
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Samples and Tools for Windows ML.
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
pytorchcaffe2pythonwindowswinmltools
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