Alexander Stein
Senior Applied Scientist, MSAI USR Fine-Tuning Team at Microsoft
Glen Rock, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Stein is a Senior Applied Scientist and software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable AI, ML, and distributed systems, currently focusing on fine-tuning generative models within Microsoft's MSAI organization. He blends hands-on software engineering, DevOps, and data science to productize research — migrating complex on-prem infrastructure to cloud and automating workflows to boost quality and velocity. At Microsoft he has rotated across Foundry and Assistive Experiences teams, bringing practical ML tooling and production readiness to large-scale assistant and search systems. Prior roles at ThousandEyes/Cisco and Intel honed his expertise in engineering effectiveness and systems-level reliability. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Columbia and is transitioning into a hybrid role that pairs research depth with pragmatic software delivery. Colleagues would describe him as a systems-minded engineer who looks for automation opportunities others miss, turning manual toil into repeatable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dickinson CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Columbia UniversityBachelors of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering at Manhattan University
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Github Skills (59)
continuous-deployment10
music-generation10
kubernetes10
docker10
machine-learning10
hpa10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
argo10
gitops10
mlops10
pipeline10
argo-workflows10
cloud-native10
k8s10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aistein/dlprof
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
aistein/Columbia
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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