Alexander Skidanov
Co-Founder at NEAR
San Francisco, California, United States
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RockstarAlexander Skidanov is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 13 years building high-performance distributed systems and databases from the ground up. As co-founder of NEAR in San Francisco, he pairs product-level vision with deep systems expertise honed as the first employee and later Director of Engineering at MemSQL, where he designed lock-free skiplists, clustering, columnar storage, and led a parser/binder overhaul and geospatial, JSON, and streaming column-store capabilities. He has a strong QA and backend instincts evidenced by MXNet contributions that fixed subtle operator bugs and strengthened test coverage in a widely used deep-learning framework. Comfortable shipping low-level data structures and production-grade platform features, he brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to scaling novel distributed architectures.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
mxnet10
python10
testing10
operator9
deep-learning9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mxnet
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Lightweight, Portable, Flexible Distributed/Mobile Deep Learning with Dynamic, Mutation-aware Dataflow Dep Scheduler; for Python, R, Julia, Scala, Go, Javascript and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 30 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to bug fixes and unit testing within the MXNet deep learning framework. They addressed issues related to the `ConcatOp` and `EmbeddingOp` operators, ensuring correct behavior and handling of edge cases. In addition to debugging core functionality, the user updated the test suite, adding checks for the `ConcatOp` to improve code reliability and prevent future regressions. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the framework's internal workings and commitment to software quality.
pythonschedulerdataflowmutationdata-science
SkidanovAlex/march-ml-mania-2015
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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