A. Sasha Gutfraind, PhD
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlexander G is a research scientist and applied-math-trained innovator with two decades of experience building cloud-native, AI/ML-driven solutions for healthcare, public sector, and industry. He currently researches and prototypes GenAI applications at AWS Envision Engineering while serving as an adjunct professor at Loyola Medicine, where his work spans computational epidemiology, causal methods, and student mentorship. His career blends academic rigor (PhD in applied mathematics) with product delivery—designing a cloud-based epidemiological dashboard, inventing a patent-pending multiscale modeling method, and leading ML-driven platforms as CTO. He has repeatedly turned analytics into impact, securing millions in grants and driving models that informed care for tens of millions and created significant revenue. Comfortable from low-level algorithm design to enterprise LLM deployments and cloud data engineering, he brings a rare mix of theoretical depth and production focus. Based in Chicago, he quietly combines academic publication track records with hands-on system architecture and rapid, mission-critical analyses.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (36)
transfer-learning7
structured-data6
computer-vision5
natural-language-processing5
logstash5
ensemble-learning5
gluon5
ledbat5
python5
pytorch4
data-science4
automl4
time-series4
machine-learning4
cdn4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sashagutfraind/feverfighter
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
sashagutfraind/uncertainty_strategies
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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