Alexey Dral
Founder, CEO at BigData Team
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Top SchoolAlexey Dral is a founder and CEO with a decade-plus track record building Big Data and ML teams, products and curricula for top-tier organizations including Yandex, Amazon AWS, Sberbank and leading universities. He leads BigData Team, which combines online and on-campus course development with applied R&D and consulting—examples include a Coursera specialization with Yandex and AI/architecture engagements for major financial and telecom clients. Alexey is both a practitioner and educator, repeatedly translating production-grade recommender, pipeline and scalability work into university courses and corporate training programs. His background spans hands-on systems engineering at scale (recommender systems, distributed DAG schedulers, blockchain scalability) and strategic R&D leadership, enabling him to define departmental strategies and industrial R&D labs. Based in Almaty, he quietly bridges academia, industry and product delivery, often turning research prototypes into production features and training thousands of learners worldwide.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Physics, Mathematics Physics at AESC MSUMaster of Science computer science, Master of Science computer science at SHAD (Yandex School of Data Analysis)Lomonosov Moscow State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
data-quality10
data-validation10
pytest10
discord10
pandas-dataframe10
validation10
jupyter-notebook10
logging10
data-science9
monitor9
text-editor9
monitoring9
python9
llm9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alex-33/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:82 commits, 46 pushes in 4 years 7 months
big-data-team/nlp-course
Dec 2020 - Dec 2023
Natural Language Processing (NLP) course materials
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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