Alexander Peyser
Senior Software Engineer ML Training SRE at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Peyser is a Senior Software Engineer and ML Training SRE at Google with 11 years of engineering and leadership experience bridging research, neuroscience, and large-scale reliability engineering. He has led multidisciplinary teams across sites and guided critical infrastructure efforts— from gLinux developer platforms to CI/CD and ML training pipelines—ensuring systems run reliably at global scale. His background includes scientific leadership in multiscale simulation and HPC for neuroscience (Forschungszentrum Jülich), where he coordinated EU-wide projects like FENIX & EBRAINS and contributed to simulation tools such as NEST. Technically versatile, he pairs deep C/C++ and HPC experience with SRE best practices and a PhD in neuroscience, enabling him to translate complex research needs into production-grade systems. Notably, he contributes to open-source scientific simulators, improving code clarity and maintainability in widely used projects like the NEST simulator. Based in Munich, he brings a unique blend of academic rigor and pragmatic site-reliability leadership to ML infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Kalman Filters, Kalman Filters at University of California, BerkeleyBS Biomedical Sciences, BS Biomedical Sciences at University of South FloridaPh.D. Neuroscience, Ph.D. Neuroscience at University of Miami Miller School of MedicineBA Anthropology, BA Anthropology at University of MichiganDuke UniversityBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Miami
English, Spanish, French, German
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Github Skills (7)
nest-simulator10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
nest10
simulator10
makefile7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nest/nest-simulator
May 2015 - Nov 2019
The NEST simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:163 commits, 49 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the NEST simulator by modifying and adding comments to existing C++ code files. Specifically, the user addressed range check issues in the `uniformint_randomdev.cpp` file, adding comments and simplifying the code to improve readability. The user also added comments to the `Makefile.am` and `ascii_logger.h` files to provide further context and understanding of the code. These changes suggest a focus on code clarity and maintainability within the NEST simulation framework.
cppnest-simulatorpythonsimulationneurons
apeyser/arbor
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
Prototype for the NestMC multi-compartment neural network simulator
Contributions:1 PR, 69 pushes, 28 branches in 5 years
simulatorneural-networkprototypenetwork-simulator
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