Alexander Pak
Engineering Director at YouTube
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlexander Pak is a Principal Engineer and Engineering Director at Google leading machine learning platform and algorithms for YouTube, with 11 years of experience designing ML infrastructure for video content understanding and trust & safety. He combines deep research training—a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Paris-Sud and an MS from KAIST—with hands-on systems leadership, moving models from experimentation into production at Internet scale. Over a decade at YouTube he progressed from building child-safety and abuse detection systems to directing cross-functional teams that power recommendation and content understanding. Based in Paris, he is as comfortable architecting low-latency ML pipelines as mentoring engineering managers and aligning technical strategy with product goals. An unusual strength is his blend of academic rigor and operational ownership, enabling both algorithmic innovation and reliable, large-scale deployment.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Tashkent University of Information TechnologiesMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Russian, English, French
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Github Skills (42)
asynchronous10
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networking10
rust10
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binary-data9
data-synchronization8
mendix7
simulation7
sdk7
api7
quantum-computing6
google6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aleksandrpak/scripts
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:263 pushes in 1 year 2 months
aleksandrpak/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:237 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
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