Summary
Alexander Kovrigin is a machine learning researcher at JetBrains specializing in training LLM agents with reinforcement learning to tackle software engineering tasks and building internal RL platforms and evaluation tooling. With eight years of experience and a strong theoretical background—top academic honors and competition success including a NWERC silver and IMC first prize—he blends rigorous math with practical systems work. His research contributions include co-authoring EnvBench (ICLR DL4C) and work on Long Code Arena and CI Build Repair, where state-of-the-art models still solve only a small fraction of tasks, highlighting his focus on hard, high-impact problems. He has hands-on systems chops from optimizing federated learning integrations at Huawei and publishing on physics-informed deep learning, showing an ability to move ideas from theory to efficient implementations. Based in Bremen and pursuing an MS in Data Science, he is an active open-source contributor and educator who enjoys turning challenging mathematical insights into robust ML tooling for real-world codebases.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics and Information Science, 9.95/10, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics and Information Science, 9.95/10 at Higher School of Economics
Lyceum "Physical-Technical High School"
Master of Science - MS, Advanced Software Technology: Machine Learning Specialization, 1.6/1, Master of Science - MS, Advanced Software Technology: Machine Learning Specialization, 1.6/1 at Constructor University
English, German, Russian, French