Yasha Pushak
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle Labs
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolYasha Pushak is a Principal Member of Technical Staff on the AutoMLx team at Oracle Labs, with a decade of experience bridging algorithm design and empirical AutoML methods. He holds a PhD from UBC as a Vanier Scholar and focuses on improving performance of state-of-the-art optimization algorithms through principled parameter configuration. His work blends theoretical algorithmic insight with hands-on experimentation to tune solvers for hard computational problems, often yielding practical improvements in real-world workloads. Prior academic roles include graduate research and teaching at UBC, where he published on road design and multi-objective optimization as an undergraduate. Based in the Greater Vancouver area, he combines deep technical rigor with a pragmatic orientation toward deployable AutoML tooling. An understated strength is his track record of moving ideas from academic papers into applied algorithmic engineering at scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (31)
vega9
python9
statistics9
vega-lite9
data-visualization8
streamlit8
configurator8
data-analysis8
classification8
developer-tools8
regression8
oracle8
machine-learning8
visualization8
matplotlib8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oracle-samples/automlx
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
This repository contains demo notebooks (sample code) for the AutoMLx (automated machine learning and explainability) package from Oracle Labs.
Contributions:7 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
aiautomated-machine-learningautomlautomlxclassification
YashaPushak/GPS
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
The Golden Parameter Search Configurator
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 4 months
goldenconfiguratorparameterkubernetesparameter-search
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