Stas Versilov is a technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently founding and directing Extra from Samara, Russia. With a background in automation (specialist degree) he blends systems thinking and product leadership across long-running initiatives since 2008. He contributes as a backend and ML engineer to the Elixir-Nx project, improving tensor operations and PyTorch integration—work that demonstrates hands-on numerical and ML tooling expertise. His contributions include optimizing core tensor primitives and adding numeric robustness like NaN checks, and even an example MNIST neural network implementation. Comfortable shifting between strategic direction and low-level algorithmic detail, he brings both management experience and active open-source engineering to bear. Colleagues can expect a founder’s pragmatic focus on reliable, production-ready solutions informed by deep technical involvement.
14 years of coding experience
specialist, Automation, specialist, Automation at Samara State Technical University
Multi-dimensional arrays (tensors) and numerical definitions for Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Contributions:32 reviews, 18 commits, 27 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Stas primarily contributed to the Elixir-Nx project, focusing on implementing and refining tensor operations, particularly within the context of PyTorch integration (Torchx backend). Their work involved defining and optimizing core tensor functionalities like `sum`, `slice`, `reshape`, and `dot product`, and converting between different types of tensors. They also worked on improving the numerical accuracy of the project, by implementing NaN checks for floating point types, and included an example MNIST neural network implementation.
A blazing fast matrix library for Elixir/Erlang with C implementation using CBLAS.
Contributions:488 commits, 13 PRs, 346 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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