Sergey Sokolov
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify
Canada
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Top SchoolSergey Sokolov is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Canada with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across e-commerce and consumer platforms. He specializes in recommendation systems and generative AI at Shopify, and previously advanced graph deep learning and research-driven models at Roblox and Amazon. Sergey combines a strong software engineering foundation—years as a developer, architect, and team lead—with PhD-level computer science expertise, enabling him to bridge research and production reliably. A test-driven developer and active open-source maintainer, his GitHub projects span unit testing frameworks, algorithmic art, Verilog tools and a niche language project, reflecting deep interest in code quality and tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who mentors teams while shipping scalable, well-tested ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer science, PhD Computer science at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (23)
yacc10
parser10
systemverilog10
lexer10
formatter10
language-server-protocol10
language-server10
linter10
developer-tools9
js-beautify8
scalable7
extensible7
trust6
bazel6
build-system6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cppunit/cppunit
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
CPlusPlusUnit - Tiny single source file C++ Unit Testing TDD framework with the output message format like Python unittest http://cppunit.github.io
Contributions:40 commits, 42 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
unittests/unitframe
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:60 pushes, 3 branches, 1 issue in 3 years 9 months
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