Alex Sherstinsky

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Hands-On Software Engineer, Research Scientist, and Technology/Product Executive @ ConvoScience
San Francisco Bay Area
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ConvoScience

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Hands-On Software Engineer, Research Scientist, and Technology/Product Executive
San Francisco Bay Area
Alex Sherstinsky Work Experience Details
  • Convoscience
    Convoscience
    San Francisco Bay Area
  • Predibase
    Developer Relations Engineer
    Predibase Nov 2023 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    This is a cross-functional role, with responsibilities ranging from Machine Learning and Data Products Engineering to Developer Community Growth Marketing.
  • Muckerlab
    Mentor
    Muckerlab Nov 2011 - Present
    MuckerLab is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator focused on serving Internet software, services and media entrepreneurs in Los Angeles and broader Southern California.
  • Mustexist, Inc.
    Co-Founder And President
    Mustexist, Inc. Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
    Machine Learning and Data Science Consulting Practice
  • Great Expectations
    Staff Machine Learning And Data Products Engineer
    Great Expectations Jan 2019 - Jul 2023
    Remote, Us
    Great Expectations is the leading open source software project and cloud offering for data quality validation/testing, documentation, and profiling.greatexpectations.ioPublic launch in 2018.Full-time, active development started June 2019.Most popular OSS library for data pipeline testing.Growing community on Slack and GitHub.
  • Directly
    Senior Architect, Data And Machine Learning Products
    Directly Feb 2017 - Nov 2018
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Directly routes customer support inquiries to vetted power users recruited from the customers’ ecosystems. This “gig economy” approach increases speed, improves satisfaction, and lowers costs. Microsoft, Samsung, Airbnb, and other major brands rely on Directly for outsourced customer support.---Member of a 2-person DS/ML unit tasked with shaping the product so as to take advantage of the usage data, which was being collected, but not utilized.---Defined and implemented a process for utilizing historical data for training classifiers that route customer support inquiries more efficiently and provide auto-responses to FAQs (this work became the basis for Series B financing).Experimentation; developing proof-of-concept prototypes; writing product, functional, and design requirements specifications for the data products.Development of all software components/services (ETL, preprocessing, vectorization, clustering, labeling, training, serving, feedback, and metrics).As part of the effort, defined and developed a patent-pending method for creating labeled sets from raw data using unsupervised and semi-supervised techniques and human-in-the-loop machine learning.Tools: AWS (EC2, S3, EMR, RedShift), Docker, gensim, scikit-learn (and many other open source tools and frameworks).Made numerous internal presentations and participated on industry panels.Published a scientific paper, titled “Fundamentals of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Network” (https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03314).
  • Growthhackers.Com
    Co-Founder/Cto&V.P. Of Engineering
    Growthhackers.Com Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
    San Francisco, California, Us
    GrowthHackers is an integrated community and growth management platform. The platform enables teams to work together to manage the growth experimentation process. Please watch the demonstration video here: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP9vo9-NNo0".Backed by leading VC firms: Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Index Ventures, and First Round Capital. As the founding CTO and V.P. of Engineering, I led engineering and web operations from concept through multiple releases. Recruited geographically dispersed dedicated engineering team. Brought online, trained, and expanded an extremely productive offshore product development team (Ukraine), critical to the business. Developed and operated data pipeline to power analytics.
  • Qualaroo, Inc.
    Co-Founder And V.P. Of Product Development; Member Of The Board Of Directors
    Qualaroo, Inc. Oct 2010 - Feb 2016
    Santa Monica, California, Us
    Qualaroo, Inc. (http://qualaroo.com) was co-founded by Sean Ellis, Eugene Mandel, Jason Meresman, and myself. We are a team of marketers and engineers determined to help marketers target users visiting their own websites. We believe that marketers should be empowered to easily execute programs that maximize the value of their website visitors and that your own website has the potential to be your most powerful marketing lever. We set out determined to empower marketers to effectively use this lever!Qualaroo is a DIY ("do it yourself") tool that enables marketers to target incoming site visitors with engagements, such as conversion feedback questions, lead generation forms, and promotions.With a small snippet of JavaScript code, Qualaroo makes it possible to target prompts by user behavior, specified needs, demographics, or any other internal data. These prompts can be used to get insights about visitors, influence their behavior, and, ultimately turn them into valuable customers.Qualaroo is backed by $6.5M in venture capital from leading investors, such as Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, and 500Startups.As a co-founder and V.P. of Product Development and Engineering, I helped build Qualaroo into the leading voice of customer solution for websites through the use of targeted surveys, which the company pioneered. Led Engineering, QA, and ran web operations (in AWS). Recruited and led the development team through all product iterations. Hands-on developed the web operations environment and multiple components of the product line. Supported key customers and partners and led several business development initiatives. Participated in due diligence and transfer of assets during acquisition.At the time of acquisition in early 2016, Qualaroo was a profitable SaaS business with approximately 1,000 customers, including Uber, Starbucks, Spotify, Kaplan, Burger King, GE Europe, Geico, Merck, and Intuit.
  • Mustexist, Inc.
    Co-Founder And President
    Mustexist, Inc. Jan 2009 - Oct 2010
    Social Media Curation for BusinessLeading all aspects of starting and running a software company: incorporation, product strategy, development, sales, partnerships. Technology: Social content curation for content marketing. Product: Buzzworthy (used by 5,000+ websites).
  • Nebuad, Inc.
    V.P. Of Product Development (Founding Team)
    Nebuad, Inc. Oct 2006 - Dec 2008
    Us
    Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development, Intellectual Property, Engineering Management, Network OperationsNebuAd built ISP-partnerships-based consumer-centric behavioral targeting network.Responsible for Product Management, Development, and Operations. Recruited and led U.S. and offshore (Eastern Europe) teams. Multi-million dollar personnel and equipment budget.U.S. Patent Application #20080306815 on NebuAd’s core technologies.
  • Actiance, Inc.
    Senior Director Of Product Management
    Actiance, Inc. Jan 1998 - Oct 2006
    Redwood City, California, Us
    Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development, Intellectual Property, Engineering Management---Actiance, Inc. started as FaceTime Communications, Inc. (founded on October 31, 2007). The company's business is Security, Management, Regulatory Compliance for, and Applications involving Instant Messaging and other real-time communications media.---Own $12M+ product line used by Fortune 1000 enterprise customers. Responsible for OEMs with leading technology companies as partners. Championed the strategy, development, delivery, and marketing of Actiance’s (then FaceTime's) technology platform and product lines since the company's beginnings. Recruited, managed, and retained members of the senior R&D team.Formal
  • Extensity Pty Ltd
    Software Engineer
    Extensity Pty Ltd 1996 - 1997
    Au
    Architecture and implementation of a distributed system for enterprise expense reporting management (as an early startup core engineer)
  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Media Laboratory
    Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Media Laboratory Jun 1994 - Jun 1995
    Post-Graduate Scientific Research in Complex Nonlinear Systems with Applications to Engineering, Economics, and Music; Distributed Software Implementation/Simulation
  • Mit Media Lab
    Research Assistant
    Mit Media Lab Sep 1991 - Jun 1994
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us
    Graduate Scientific Research in Complex Nonlinear Systems with Applications to Engineering, Economics, and Music; Distributed Software Implementation/Simulation
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
    Summer Intern
    Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1984 - 1991
    Houston, Texas, Us
    Research and development projects in integrated circuits (yield analysis, multi-chip modules) and image processing (textures, halftoning)
  • Zycad
    Summer Intern
    Zycad 1989 - 1989
    CAD/Simulation Software Development for the Design of Integrated Circuits

Alex Sherstinsky Skills

Start Ups Product Management Business Development Product Development Product Marketing Entrepreneurship Team Building Executive Management Leadership Engineering Management Enterprise Software Strategic Partnerships Strategy Intellectual Property Software Development Computer Network Operations Management Program Management Saas Project Management Cloud Computing Mobile Devices Security Network Operations User Experience Online Advertising Venture Capital Scalability

Alex Sherstinsky Education Details

  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Electrical Engineering And Computer Science
  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Electrical Engineering And Computer Science
  • University Of California, Berkeley
    University Of California, Berkeley
    Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

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