Alexander Gude
Senior Staff (L7) Machine Learning Engineer, Modeler at Block
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Gude is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operationalizing fraud, risk, and security ML systems at scale for consumer finance. He has led cross-functional, customer-facing programs that combined modeling, rules, and alerts to cut fraud volumes by an order of magnitude while enabling product growth—e.g., driving instant bank account onboarding that increased paycheck deposits 90%. A former CERN particle physicist, he brings rigorous experimental thinking to production ML, having migrated large model fleets to cloud CI/CD pipelines and saved millions in operating costs. He excels at translating high-recall monitoring into targeted models and rules, briefed regulators on anti-fraud practices, and built the first in-product real-time account-takeover model at Intuit. Outside of work he’s a cyclist and occasional photographer, applying the same data-driven curiosity to projects ranging from geospatial photo recommendation engines to large-scale image embedding research.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors, Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics at University of Minnesota
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Github contributions (5)
agude/UMN-PhD-Thesis-Template
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
The LaTeX thesis template provided by the University of Minnesota, with various improvements.
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 4 months
phd-thesis-templatethesis-templatelatex-templatethesislatex
Ten-Point-Touchdowns/Football-Data
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
play-by-playjsonformatsnfl
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