Ross Alexander
Software Engineer at Unify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Alexander is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale simulation and streaming systems for autonomous vehicles and AI research. A Stanford M.S. (and PhD candidate) in Aeronautics & Astronautics focused on AI and planning under uncertainty, he has shipped production pipelines at Waymo that ran 100M+ simulations per year and processed petabyte-scale fleet telemetry to detect safety-critical events. He blends principled research (POMDPs, MDPs on graph diffusion) with pragmatic engineering—championing ML scoring for 20x labeling efficiency and designing high-throughput data and eval infrastructure in C++, Python, SQL, and PySpark. Now based in New York and contributing at the intersection of applied ML and autonomous systems, he brings an uncommon mix of academic rigor, production-grade systems experience, and educator experience from teaching AI to pre-college students.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Aeronautics & Astronautics Artificial Intelligence Track, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aeronautics & Astronautics Artificial Intelligence Track at Stanford University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
benchmark8
testing7
optimization7
julia7
solver5
sensor3
errata3
react3
nextjs2
typescript2
convex-optimization2
convex2
python2
simulation2
jekyll1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rbalexan/rbalexan.github.io
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
personal website
Contributions:4 PRs, 210 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
reactnextjstypescript
rbalexan/BenchmarkFunctions.jl
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
A set of common benchmark functions for testing optimization algorithms in Julia
Contributions:65 commits, 9 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 6 months
optimization-algorithmsbenchmark-functionsoptimizationtestingbenchmark
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