Alexander Orona
Chief Data Scientist & Lead Software Developer
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Orona is a Chief Data Scientist and Lead Software Developer with 11 years of experience building production-ready AI and cloud data platforms from startups to enterprise R&D. He specializes in deep learning for text, sequences and time series, having introduced model parallelism into the HuggingFace ecosystem and delivered transformer, RNN, CNN and hybrid architectures in production. At Ocean Motion Technologies he’s leading the Big Blue Cloud to enable large-scale oceanographic data collection, and previously drove generative NLP, RAG and prompt-chaining features for conversational AI at Keys. His product-first background includes designing AutoML, ETL and model lifecycle tools at Dassault Systèmes across industries like life sciences and mining, plus hands-on contracting and scaling teams internationally. A UC San Diego-trained data scientist with Cambridge research experience and a Fulbright background, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery. Notably, he pairs low-level model engineering (model parallelism) with an eye for usable tooling that reduces hallucination and operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMasters of Research, Masters of Research at University of CambridgeFulbright Scholar The Netherlands, Fulbright Scholar The Netherlands at US Fulbright ProgramBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Georgetown University
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Github Skills (34)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
compression10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexorona/transformers-model-parallel
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 7 days
alexorona/transformers
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
🤗Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for Pytorch and TensorFlow 2.0.
Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
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