# George Brova

> Building EBS on Edge!

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgebrova

Applied machine learning, NLP, and some distributed systems. Excited about building practical and impactful things, the harder the better.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Some challenges we are tackling: 
* Operational scaling: each EBS Edge deployment is a mini-datacenter, and we need tooling to enable a small team to monitor and manage hundreds of accounts automatically. 
* Scaling down EBS: design decisions targeting large datacenters don't always scale down to Edge environments.  We model system behavior to first understand, then mitigate, key differences in latency, availability, and durability characteristics between regional datacenters and edge deployments.

### Engineering lead post Migacore acquisition @ Cirium
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom

### Co-Founder and CTO @ Migacore Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | London, United Kingdom

### Entrepreneur in Residence @ Entrepreneur First
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | London, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | London, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Risk and Information Management Intern @ American Express
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Recommendation system research and development

### Software Engineer @ Groupon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA
Improved the algorithm that personalizes deal recommendations for users, leading to better targeting and a 3.3% increase in revenue. Technologies: Java, Hadoop, Teradata.

### Financial Software Developer (2011 Intern) @ Bloomberg
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Software development, UI design. Designed and built a function to calculate the fair value of futures contracts.

### Financial Software Developer (2010 Intern) @ Bloomberg
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Software development, UI design. Designed and implemented an analysis tool for Bloomberg Tradebook’s Pair Trading algorithm.

### Research Assistant @ Boston University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Research, software development. Created and analyzed an efficient and accurate query-by-humming system; investigated and compared methods to represent songs and queries as multidimensional time series, and different possible similarity measures and their suitability for a query-by-humming system


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Currently on Leave) in Computer Science / Data Mining
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### BA/MA in Computer Science
Boston University

### High School
K. International School Tokyo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gbrova
- Portfolio: http://www.brova.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-31