Julaiti Alafate
Co-Founder & CTO at skillset
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulaiti Alafate is a machine learning-focused software engineer and research scientist with 11 years of experience, currently co-founding and serving as CTO of Skillset after leading Instagram Ads Core Optimization as a Staff Research Scientist at Meta. He specializes in building adaptive ML systems that span the full lifecycle—data pipelines, recurrent training, large-scale inference, and production monitoring—while designing against distribution shift and feedback loops that can corrupt training signals. Comfortable working across infrastructure and product, he has driven revenue and infra savings through ranking, supply, and delivery optimizations in ad systems. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and early product-engineering experience at Google and graph-database startup TigerGraph, he combines deep research rigor with hands-on production delivery. An understated strength is his focus on operationalizing robust ML safeguards so models improve business metrics without destabilizing live systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Fudan University
English, Chinese, uyghur
Github Skills (16)
algorithm9
command-line-tool7
jupyter-notebook6
dokuwiki6
aws6
apache-spark4
amazon-web-services4
python3
markdown3
idris2
machine-learning2
open-source1
big-data1
pandas1
data-science1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arapat/spark-notebook
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Launch Apache Spark and Jupyter Notebook on Amazon Web Services.
Contributions:86 commits, 16 PRs, 68 pushes in 3 years 11 months
amazon-web-servicesapache-sparkjupyter-notebook
arapat/bathymetry-analysis
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:129 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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