Alexander Zhipa
Greater Miami, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Zhipa is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in backend systems and large-scale deep learning infrastructure. Currently an SDE III at Amazon, he architects and trains 100B+ transformer LLMs using parallelism strategies and productionizes training on native AWS hardware, contributing to DeepSpeed and other open-source tooling. His background spans finance-grade low-latency trading systems at Deutsche Bank, large consumer features for Alexa, and embedded/firmware-adjacent products at Samsung, demonstrating fluency across JVM, Python, and distributed systems. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and informatics theory and pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on ML engineering at scale. An engineer who moves smoothly between core systems design and cutting-edge model training, he’s comfortable pushing both infrastructure and model boundaries to deliver measurable impact.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (194)
transformers10
slurm10
python10
mxnet10
text-to-speech10
automatic-speech-recognition10
intellij-idea10
sagemaker10
transformer-models10
amazon-sagemaker10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
gpu10
e2e10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
clumsy/kattis
Nov 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:485 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
clumsy/leetcode
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:449 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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