Alex Mikhailova

Alex Mikhailova has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and companies. Alex started their career at Yandex as a Software Engineering Intern, where they worked in the ML Research team and System Monitoring team. At EMC, they served as a College Intern, developing an internal system in Common Lisp and introducing new functionality to the open-source Common Lisp implementation of Google Closure Templates.

Alex then joined Google as a Software Engineering Intern II, contributing to the Chrome DevTools team by introducing JavaScript ES6 Promise instrumentation and adding support for JS ES6 features in DevTools console. After that, they worked at OK.RU as a Data Mining Developer, implementing filter tools based on message similarity for spam detection and developing a software component for real-time data transfer into and out of Hadoop.

At Apple, Alex worked as a Software Engineer in the Special Projects Group, gaining experience in software development. Later, they joined Quadrature as a Quantitative Developer, focusing on research and cross-team projects. Alex eventually became the Lead of the Quant Dev graduate program and also founded and built the Release Engineering group within the Quantitative Development business area. In this role, they were responsible for the end-to-end build and release process of the ecosystem and ensured timely feature and trading model releases.

Overall, Alex Mikhailova has a strong background in software engineering, data mining, and quantitative development, with experience in leading teams and driving successful projects.

Alex Mikhailova completed a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Mathematics (Part-time) from Imperial College London from 2018 to 2023. Prior to that, they attended the Computer Science Center from 2011 to 2014, where they received an Alumna degree in Data Mining. Alex also holds a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University, although the start and end years of this degree were not specified.