Leonid Alekseyev
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeonid Alekseyev is a senior software engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience applying big-data, numerical computing, and machine learning techniques to production systems. He blends a strong applied-math and physics background (PhD-level optical physics) with hands-on engineering across backend services, data pipelines, and deployment, recently joining Meta after leading engineering at an enterprise blockchain startup. His career spans quantitative finance, terabyte-scale analytics, anomaly detection at Splunk, and building ML infrastructure for learning platforms—demonstrating comfort moving between research-grade simulations and pragmatic business logic. Notably, he pairs theoretical expertise in nano-optics and metamaterials with practical skills in Python, R, C++, and the Hadoop ecosystem, making him adept at turning complex models into scalable, operational software.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford UniversityPh.D., Electrical Engineering (Optical Physics), Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Optical Physics) at Princeton University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
language-server-protocol10
vim10
spacemacs10
portable10
client-library10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
json10
eslint10
checker10
editing10
go-kit10
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
leoalekseyev/emacs.d
Nov 2009 - Dec 2011
Contributions:100 commits in 2 years 1 month
betaprior/doom-emacs
Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
emacsmartian
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