Alex Miller

Alex Miller is a Machine Learning Engineer currently working at Yahoo.1 He has an extensive background in machine learning and software engineering, with experience at several prominent tech companies.

Professional Experience

Alex's career journey includes:

• Yahoo: Current role as Machine Learning Engineer1
• Cove: Machine Learning Engineer (July 2023, 1 month)1
• Reddit, Inc.: Machine Learning Engineer (December 2021 - July 2023)1
• Twitter: Machine Learning Engineer (April 2019 - February 2021)1
• Daily Coding Problem: Cofounder / Author (May 2018 - May 2019)1
• Karat: Expert Interviewer (October 2018 - February 2019)1
• Yelp: Software Engineer (December 2015 - December 2017)1

Education and Skills

Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Wesleyan University, which he completed between 2008 and 2012.12 His skill set includes:

• Python
• Machine Learning
• MySQL
• Natural Language Processing2

Notable Achievements

During his time at Yelp, Alex worked on the Content Understanding team, where he:

• Trained restaurant photo classification models using convolutional neural networks
• Built a pipeline for extracting key business attributes from reviews
• Created an API to retrieve, rank, and serve photos
• Supervised projects for interns on menu photo OCR and photo ranking improvement1

At Twitter, he focused on machine learning for email ranking and fake account detection.1

Alex also co-founded Daily Coding Problem, where he designed coding interview challenges and wrote a book on coding interview preparation.1

Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Alex Miller continues to contribute his expertise in machine learning to Yahoo's projects.13