# Alex Mirov

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexmirov

After 4 years of full time work experience as a Python data pipelines engineer at a small startup, I am seeking career growth through software engineering roles that afford opportunities for project management, collaborative work, and leadership.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Syllable
Jan 2019 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA
Implemented realtime system usage event capture in the production stack across multiple microservices

Singlehandedly designed and implemented the company’s first iteration of an analytics data processing pipeline in 2019
- Batch ingestion, batch transformation, storage, presentation via BI tools (AWS Quicksights)
- Built with AWS s3, AWS lambda functions, AWS SQS, AWS kinesis firehose, redshift, dbt. 

Designed and implemented second iteration of data processing pipeline in 2021 with primary goal of scalability.
- Implemented generalized producer consumer framework that eliminated bottlenecks for scaling the previous pipeline design by streaming data instead of batch processing.
- Reduced latency from event capture to end reporting from 1 hour to < 1 minute.
- Ingested ~1MB/min during peak loads.
- Built with the custom python pipeline framework, AWS SQS, kibana, redshift, dbt, and elasticsearch.

### Campus Tour Guide @ UC Davis Undergraduate Admissions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Davis, CA
- Gave up to several 1.5 hour long tours of the UC Davis campus every week to groups of 10-50 people. 
- Represented the UC Davis student body and persuaded prospective students to attend UC Davis. 
- Did it all while walking backwards!

### Machine Learning Intern @ PatternEx
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Designed, developed, and tested distributed software systems and Artificial Intelligence algorithms for Information Security applications.
-Prototyped Machine Learning models using SciKit Learn in iPython Jupyter Notebooks.
-Optimized model parameters and design
-Worked with PySpark and Panda Dataframes
-Performed batch data processing on large volumes of server log data.
-Built data ingestion pipelines for feature engineering
-Designed and optimized feature vectors

### Software Engineering Intern @ Syllable Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
- Built online chatbots on Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and proprietary platforms. Wrote dynamic and extensible dialog flows for the chatbots.
- Worked with Docker, Knex SQL, DynamoDb, Redis, CircleCI, AWS S3, and AWS CloudFront.
- Built web applications using HTML/NodeJs/CSS, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, and React Semantic-UI.
- Created algorithms for NLP entity extraction using Google Cloud Platform’s Natural Language API
- Built serverless backend applications on AWS Lambda using the "Serverless" framework. 
- Integrated numerous third party API’s via Webhooks.

### Business and Finance Commission Chairperson @ Associated Students of the University of California Davis (ASUCD)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Davis, CA
Chair of the UC Davis student government (ASUCD) Business and Finance Commission.
- Developed MATLAB scripts to analyze large amounts of financial data to supplement the audit of each business unit.
- Managed and lead a team of 12 other students in the following tasks:
- Held weekly commission meetings to evaluate the impact of spending legislation.
- Generated official financial and business recommendations to the ASUCD (student government) Senate on the appropriation of a $14 million dollar budget. 
- Performed regular financial audits of 26 on campus Strategic Business Units.

### Document Control and Quality Systems Consultant @ Irwin And Associates
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
- Maintained (FDA) QSR 21 CFR 820.40 and ISO 13485 section 4 (Document and Quality Control) on several project groups within Verily, Inc (Formerly Google Life Sciences).
- Tracked and managed the SOP training status of ~80 members of Verily.
- Designed, implemented, and operated an electronic version of the existing paper-based Document Control system.
- Responsible for the creation of purchased part component information documents.
- Assisted with device preparation and meticulous laboratory style testing / data collection.

### Intern @ Astreya
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA
- Performed clerical tasks for the Equipment Maintenance Technician team.
- Assisted heavily with inventory at the Mountain View Googleplex campus.
- Assisted with the diagnosis and repair of malfunctioning projectors, cameras, microphones, and other presentation/conference room equipment.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Davis

### High School
Homestead High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-mirov
- GitHub: https://github.com/alexmirov95

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Last updated: 2026-03-30