Vitaly Gordon
Co-founder & CEO at Faros AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVitaly Gordon is a seasoned technology founder and machine learning leader with 12+ years building large-scale data and AI products, currently co-founder and CEO of Faros AI in Mountain View. He previously led Data Science and Engineering for Salesforce Einstein and held senior data science roles at LinkedIn, where he introduced production Scalding usage and improved core inference systems. Vitaly combines hands-on backend and ML engineering experience (including notable open-source contributions to Twitter’s Scalding) with operational CEO responsibilities, from fundraising to spreadsheets and culture. He’s comfortable turning ambiguous, high-variance data problems into scalable products and thrives on building teams that ship at enterprise scale. Unusually for a CEO, he still digs into code and distributed-systems kernels while running the company, blending technical depth with startup grit.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyB.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (5)
cascading10
scala10
apache-hadoop9
data-engineering9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/scalding
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
A Scala API for Cascading
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vitaly contributed to the Scalding project, a Scala API for Cascading, primarily by modifying and enhancing the core functionalities. Their commits show work on refactoring join methods and adding implicits, indicating an understanding of the library's internal workings. The user also addressed issues related to the merging of upstream changes, which involved changes to core operations and side-effect operations, as well as modifications to the TypedPipe class. Finally, they added sampling methods to the TypedPipe.
apiscalafs2cascadingscala-native
vitalyg/Strata2014ScaldingTutorial
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 11 days
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