About

Alex C. is a highly experienced software engineer with a focus on retrieval and experiments infrastructure. He is currently working at Databricks, where he is responsible for YouTube Ads Serving. Alex has a vast experience in web scraping, information retrieval, and processing. Before joining Databricks, Alex worked at Google as a Software Engineer, where he was responsible for YouTube Ads Serving and Spanner - globally distributed externally consistent storage system. During his time at Google, Alex landed multiple projects that generated large revenue gains and resource savings. He also helped design and integrate ML models into the serving flow, launched new critical backends supporting those launches, and led serving infrastructure changes for multiple cross-team projects. Alex has also worked as a Spanner SRE-SWE at Google, where he focused on scalability, reliability, and resource management. Alex has a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Telecommunications from Donetsk National Technical University. He has also taken online courses from Stanford University, Udacity, Coursera, and edX. Alex's technical skills include Software Engineering, Databricks, infra, Information Retrieval, ML, Web, and SRE. He has relevant experience of 7.95 years.