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Alex is the CEO and Founder at Scale AI. He was inspired to solve ML infrastructure problems and accelerate the development of AI through his work at Quora, where he worked as a technical lead. Alex worked as an algorithm developer at Hudson River Trading and as a software engineer at Addepar. He attended, and dropped out from, MIT, studying Artificial Intelligence.

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We’ve had an incredible group of people join Scale—and we’re still <a href="https://scale.ai/about#jobs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hiring</a>! We wanted to take a moment to call out the amazing engineering team at Scale: <ul><li>Ricky Rauch / <a href="https://twitter.com/rickyrauch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ricky</a> was the first designer and later Head of Design at <a href="https://auth0.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Auth0</a>. He has designed many developer-focused products including <a href="https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GitLab</a>, <a href="https://jwt.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">JWT.IO</a>, and <a href="http://www.passportjs.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Passport.js</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>Nate Herman / Nate most recently worked on infrastructure engineering at Dropbox. In the past he built an <a href="https://www.wired.com/2012/09/gameception-doom-iphone/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iOS port of Doom</a> and its associated mods, as well as a popular <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/18/new-pokemon-go-bot-launches-as-niantic-starts-permanently-banning-cheaters/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pokemon Go</a> automator. He studied computer science at Harvard with a research focus on <a href="http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/pubs/herman16type-aware.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">concurrent computing</a>.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Steven Hao / Steven graduated from MIT and previously had stints at Jane Street, DE Shaw, and Quora. He received a gold medal at <a href="http://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/3113" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IOI</a> and top honors at programming competitions including Codeforces and ACM-ICPC. His personal projects include the collaborative crossword site <a href="https://downforacross.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Down For A Cross</a> and a web implementation of <a href="http://set.stevenhao.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Set</a>.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Leigh Marie Braswell / Leigh Marie has previously worked at Google, Jane Street, and Blend with roles in software engineering, machine learning research, and product management. She was recognized as one of the top 10 competitive female mathematicians in the United States by the Math Prize for Girls Competition. She studied computer science at MIT.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Calvin Huang / <a href="https://calvinhuang.me/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Calvin</a> graduated from MIT with a research focus in <a href="https://dreal.github.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">theorem solving</a> and natural language processing, and with experience at Quora and Google prior to joining Scale. He received two gold medals at <a href="http://ipho2013.dk/ipho2013-results-gold.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IPhO</a> as well as the award for Best Physics Experiment, and was a USAJMO winner. He has been known to build robots.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Guido Maliandi / Guido previously founded a virtual reality startup for collaborative environments in VR using Unity and three.js. He has led engineering teams at startups for the past nine years and was a major contributor to Microsoft’s <a href="https://prismlibrary.github.io/docs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Prism library</a>.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Zhichun Li / Zhichun has previously worked at Lightspeed China Partners, Facebook, Microsoft and Airbnb with roles in investment and software engineering. She is a producer of <a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Kph9YZ1Nvwf4pCt9inT0-A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">VC Pulse</a>, a podcast spotlighting venture capitalists in China. Zhichun was the youngest ever admit to the Yale MBA program, and studied computer science at CMU. She has notably been featured on Eminem’s Snapchat story.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Rilka / <a href="http://rilka.li/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rilka</a> previously led design and frontend engineering at a startup and worked as a full-stack engineer at Dropbox. Along with Nate she built a popular <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/18/new-pokemon-go-bot-launches-as-niantic-starts-permanently-banning-cheaters/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pokémon Go</a> automator; other past projects include desktop Threes, Facebook Unfriend Finder, and the Quantified Piñata. She studied computer science at Harvard and (briefly) architecture at Parsons.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Sam Clearman / Sam received a PhD in mathematics studying <a href="https://vimeo.com/123640110" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">combinatorial interpretations of quantum immanants</a>. He was previously an engineer at Google working on Google Play Services. He also built a variant of Tetris called <a href="http://www.samclearman.com/2etris/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2etris</a>.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Chiao-Lun Cheng / Chiao received a PhD in computational chemistry from MIT, and has a diverse background in management consulting, quantitative trading, backend engineering, and data science. He has built models for supermarket revenue prediction, bookmaking sports bets, and PCB defect detection, and is intimately familiar with bugs in the Interactive Brokers API.</li><li> </li><li> </li><li>Akshat Bubna / Akshat was the first competitor from India to receive a gold medal at the <a href="http://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/3063" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IOI</a>. He previously has worked at DE Shaw and database and fintech startups, and studied computer science and mathematics at MIT.</li><li> </li></ul><h2>Contractors</h2> <ul><li> </li><li>Albert Sheu / Albert was the second engineer at Quora and built a Python framework to render webpages on multiple cores, which sped up Quora by <a href="https://blog.quora.com/Improving-Site-Speed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">up to 10x</a>. He also was the Head of Engineering at Patreon and an early engineer at both Facebook and Twitter.</li><li> </li></ul>

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