Kalin Kanov
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKalin Kanov is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and ML-driven systems, currently leading a team in Amazon Ads that powers insights, recommendations, and personalization for self-service advertisers. He designs and scales services that operate over petabytes and more than 5 billion products, and is driving the integration of LLM agents to enable conversational access to advertising insights. Previously he built high-throughput pricing infrastructure at Bloomberg (processing billions of ticks daily) and was the sole developer and designer of the Johns Hopkins Turbulence Databases, reflecting deep expertise in scientific databases and batch-query evaluation. Kalin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, where his research focused on efficient evaluation methods for large-scale simulation labs. He combines research rigor with product-focused engineering, delivering ML-powered ranking and recommendation systems that move billions in ad spend. Based in New York, he blends low-level performance tuning experience with strategic architectural leadership across analytics, personalization, and conversational interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astronomy and Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astronomy and Physics at University of Virginia
English, Bulgarian, RussianProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
idies/Turbulence
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:145 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
idies/turbmat
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
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