# Alex Mellnik > Data, Software & Physics Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexmellnik I’m a scientist & software/data engineer interested in tackling challenging technical and analytical problems wherever I can find them. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Data Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Present | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States I'm changing how we build internal analytical tools for the AI era. I was previously a Tech Lead Manager and Staff Data Engineer, and a few of my previous projects include: • Helping Instagram teams and leadership understand & manage datacenter capacity. • Leading a workstream to reduce the capacity cost associated with analytical logging with more than $100M in savings. • Helping teams work more efficiently with internal product infrastructure and open source tools such as GraphQL & React. • Improving analytical tools and our data foundations for video and voice calling. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Cloud Console Experiences team, developing new features for resource management in Google Cloud Console. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rigetti Computing Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California • Created a pipeline for predicting low-temperature device characteristics and simulating device performance using design, manufacturing & metrology data. • Developed new software and data structures for creating, manipulating, and storing the intended Hamiltonians for our quantum integrated circuits. ### Senior Data Engineer @ Rigetti Computing Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Created a data-driven self-service analysis tool suite used by teams across the company to study our manufacturing process & device performance. • Restructured disparate internal data sources into a single production Postgres instance, enabling automated studies of how fabrication/design changes impact performance. • Proposed two new types of test structures & calibration procedures which significantly improved manufacturing fidelity. ### Product Engineer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Hillsboro, OR • I developed a new method and set of tools for using production yield data to optimize the arrangement of die for new products. This method was credited with more than $100M in cost savings on a single product alone. • I built a data ingestion, modeling and prediction pipeline for predicting the yield, power and performance based on process varieties and in-line measurements for key products on our next-generation process node. This included a full-stack web application for self-service analysis by the Yield & Product Engineering teams. • I drove cross-product yield modeling and predictions on Intel's next-generation process node. I enabled product owners from divisions across Intel to perform exploratory yield analysis by developing a database-backed suite of modeling tools. ### Yield Analysis Engineer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hillsboro, OR • I developed and maintained a full-stack data ingesting, warehousing, processing and analysis suite which greatly reduced the overhead for first-line debug/analysis for foundry products and created an interactive web-based dashboard system. • I lead the development of critical customer-facing and internal tools and supported yield analysis on foundry products. ### Ph.D. researcher @ Cornell University Jan 2009 – Jan 2015 | Ithaca, NY My work provided the first experimental evidence that topological insulators are incredibly efficient at generating spin torques and has been cited more than 1500 times. I developed novel fabrication and experimental techniques, and lead the construction of a new system for measuring spin torques optically at cryogenic temperatures. ### Research Analyst @ Samarcand Analytics Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Technical consulting including data analysis, statistics, web scraping, and automation. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics Cornell University Jan 2009 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor's Degree in Physics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amellnik - Website: http://alex.mellnik.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexmellnik JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexmellnik/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22