Brooklyn, New York
WeWork
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
September 2018 to January 2020
Greater New York City Area
Senior Software Engineer
March 2011 to September 2018
Greater New York City Area
Software Engineer
January 2007 to March 2011
Mountain View, CA
Started and lead Knowledge Graph and Semantic Search efforts within Member Experience.Responsibilities included:- Working with Product to identify strategic opportunities.- Planning work stream.- Mentoring junior ML engineers.- Introducing best practices and design patterns.- Interviewing and hiring. The ML team grew from 4 to 9 engineers over less than a year and was ramping up hiring for more... Started and lead Knowledge Graph and Semantic Search efforts within Member Experience.Responsibilities included:- Working with Product to identify strategic opportunities.- Planning work stream.- Mentoring junior ML engineers.- Introducing best practices and design patterns.- Interviewing and hiring. The ML team grew from 4 to 9 engineers over less than a year and was ramping up hiring for more growth.Main engineering accomplishments: - Implemented the data integration pipeline and pipeline configuration language that enabled integration of several dozens data sources into a single Knowledge Graph using AWS batch and AirFlow. Produced end-to-end testing and development pipelines. Enabled batch and analytics queries against the graph. Built similarity and matching / personalization models from the graph and enable others to do the same.- Implemented semantic parser and translation to Cipher queries run on Neo4j database containing the Knowledge Graph data. Lead the development tying these components into end-to-end natural language search over all structured data for WeWork member experience.- Built and productionized ML models and maintained data pipelines for recommendation systems, NLP entity extraction, and embedding-based matching models.
What company does Alexander Vasserman work for?
Alexander Vasserman works for WeWork
What is Alexander Vasserman's role at WeWork?
Alexander Vasserman is Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Who are Alexander Vasserman's colleagues?
Alexander Vasserman's colleagues are Ray Tan, Lorenz 邱紹哲, Eoin Henry, Jerald Chen, Julian Leung, Adrian Tan, Charissa Chen, Tiffany Wong, Scott Polchleb, and Henriette Kockum
💼 Past Experience
Alexander Vasserman has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Heained experience working with machine learning, legal search, and Soft constructs in the areas of Electrical Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and software engineering.
🎓 Education
Alexander Vasserman has a BS from Brown University in Computer Science and a MS from Northeastern University in Computer Science. Alexander Vasserman's education has provided him with the skills and patience necessary for a career in the computer industry.Alexander Vasserman began his career in 2001 as a research associate at University of Pennsylvania in Computer Science. There, he worked on a variety of research projects, most notably stemming from his passion for computer science and mathematics. While at Penn, Alexander Vasserman also completed a graduate degree in Computer Science, a certificate in applied theoretical computer science, and a certificate in software engineering.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Education:Alexander Vasserman has a B.S. in Natural Science from Bucknell University.
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