Alexis Smirnov
Founder at dialoguemd
Brossard, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAlexis Smirnov is a seasoned founder and technology executive with three decades of experience building products at startups and Fortune 100 companies, currently known for co-founding and serving as CTO of Dialogue, Canada’s leading virtual healthcare platform. He has a track record of launching and exiting cloud and AI-driven ventures—co-founding Pi Corp (acquired by EMC) and leading ML and NLP initiatives across companies like Nexalogy, Hopper, and Microsoft. Alexis blends hands-on engineering (including contributions to the popular Rasa open-source conversational AI framework) with product strategy, having built semantic search, social analytics, and conversational app platforms. Based in Brossard, Quebec, he’s an active member of Montreal’s startup ecosystem, holds multiple software patents, and often operates at the intersection of NLP, ML, and scalable back-end systems.
12 years of coding experience
English, French, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
nlu10
rasa10
python10
natural-language-processing10
pytest9
conversation9
machine-learning8
schema-org6
googlespeechapi6
opentok6
macos6
tokbox6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexis primarily focused on enhancing the core Rasa framework. Their contributions include refactoring the interpreter to pass the tracker, demonstrating a use case for leveraging the tracker within the interpreter, and updating the NLU model. They also worked on adding and refactoring unit tests to cover the added features. Furthermore, the user addressed conflicts to integrate their changes with the master branch, indicating an active role in maintaining the project.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
alexissmirnov/cnt
Dec 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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