Alexandra Kissel
Software Engineer at Sierra
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandra Kissel is a software engineer and founder with a decade of experience building AI-enabled products and platforms, currently shaping engineering at Sierra after leading Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23), an AI product-discovery startup that lets non-technical e-commerce teams tag catalogs via multimodal models. She was a founding engineer and platform lead at SigOpt and an early PM at Gantry and Citrine, blending deep hands-on engineering with product and MLOps expertise. Alexandra’s work focuses on making state-of-the-art AI effortless to use while studying the psychology of user adoption for ML tools—a perspective honed across half a dozen startups and consumer-facing roles at Polyvore and Rent the Runway. A longtime Bay Area community builder, she grew WiMLDS’s chapter to 6,500+ members, launching mentorship and content programs that demonstrate her commitment to inclusive tech ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (72)
kubeflow10
forge10
huggingface10
automl10
ai10
hyperparameter-tuning10
neural-architecture-search10
python-interface10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
llm10
scikit-learn10
portable9
lightgbm9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sigopt/SigOptR
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
SigOpt's public R client
Contributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 3 months
alexandraj777/machine-learning-samples
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 days
aws-lambdaamazonmachine-learningamazon-awsaws
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