Sasha Ovsankin
Tech Lead, AI Infra at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSasha Ovsankin is a seasoned tech lead specializing in AI infrastructure with 12 years of software engineering leadership across LinkedIn and Uber and decades of founding and head-of-engineering experience. He excels at turning domain needs—particularly in machine learning, analytics, and big data—into polished products, having owned full lifecycles from prototype to optimization across domains like content relevance, eCommerce, and medical imaging. A pragmatic engineer fluent in functional Scala and distributed systems (Spark/Hadoop), he combines hands-on development with team-level architecture and delivery. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs startup grit from multiple co-founder roles with enterprise-scale reliability practice, and he’s driven by a continual learning mindset that recently expanded into AI/ML and music studies via Berklee coursework.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Statement of accomplishment, Statement of accomplishment at Berklee School of Music (via Coursera)Lomonosov Moscow State University
Hebrew, Russian
Stackoverflow
3,709reputation
367kreached
85answers
18questions
java
top-5%
Github Skills (167)
sequence-diagram10
textual10
plantuml10
diagram10
java10
mermaid10
uml10
jar9
sysml9
petastorm9
runner9
gradle-plugin9
c4model9
c-extension9
graphql-java9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SashaOv/git-vtag
May 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 5 years 10 months
SashaOv/oneclick-hadoop-launcher
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Maven plugin to compile-deploy-launch hadoop jobs with one click
Contributions:36 commits in 3 months
maven-pluginmavenone-clickcompilehadoop
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