Alexander Yankov
Principal Software Engineer at SmarterDx
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Yankov is a Principal Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building low-maintenance, production-grade systems across finance, marketplaces, and ML-driven document workflows. He has progressed from front-office engineering at Goldman Sachs and quant infrastructure at Cipher Capital to founding roles and technical leadership at startups like Alkymi and Bubble+Squeak, and staff-level engineering at Google. Alexander excels at simplifying complex distributed systems and data pipelines—particularly where NLP, annotation tooling, and model training intersect with real business workflows. He combines deep domain knowledge in finance with hands-on architecture and implementation skills, often focusing on pragmatic, scalable solutions that reduce long-term maintenance. Colleagues describe him as a polyglot problem-solver who quietly bridges research and production to unlock operational value from messy, real-world data.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BCAB.S. Computer Science Economics, B.S. Computer Science Economics at Rutgers University
Github Skills (96)
windows10
image-generation10
inpainting10
linux10
pdf-viewer10
ai10
generative-art10
artificial-intelligence10
macos10
pdf10
stable-diffusion10
react10
opengl9
python9
amqp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aleyan/langtonsant
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
aleyan/dela
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
A task runner that delegates the work to other tools
Contributions:3 reviews, 140 PRs, 299 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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