Alexey Taymanov
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexey Taymanov is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with seven years of professional experience and a deep academic background in computational mathematics from MSU. Currently at Microsoft since 2015, he has progressed from hands-on engineering on Answer and Widget Experiences to senior and principal roles, shaping large-scale product and ML-driven features. He brings a pragmatic systems perspective from earlier work at Yandex, Acronis, and ABBYY, with strong C/C++ and Python foundations applied to content systems, backup software, and OCR. An active contributor to the Vowpal Wabbit project, Alexey implemented Python reinforcement learning examples and integrated rlclientlib, demonstrating applied ML and cross-language interoperability skills. Colleagues rely on him to bridge algorithmic thinking and production-grade engineering, translating research-grade methods into usable developer examples and services.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Japanese, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
machine-learning10
python10
reinforcement-learning10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
elearning7
active-learning7
bandit7
vowpal-wabbit6
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning6
convergence6
optimization6
data-science6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Vowpal Wabbit is a machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online, hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive learning.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:172 reviews, 65 commits, 105 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexey implemented several Python examples within the Vowpal Wabbit repository to demonstrate reinforcement learning (RL) concepts. They introduced new Python files, mirroring the functionality of existing C++ examples, demonstrating an understanding of the RL library. The user's contributions involve RL client library (rlclientlib) integration.
hashingtechniquescpppythonactive-learning
ataymano/mwt-ds
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
Umbrella repository for projects related to the MWT Decision Service
Contributions:74 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 6 months
umbrelladecision-serviceblockchaindecision
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