Alex Kass

Data Science and Engineering Leader

Hastings-On-Hudson, New York, United States

About

A leader in the data space who can maneuver seamlessly among the multiple pillars of engineering, data science, and analytics, with well over a decade of management & IC experience across all of the above. Over the years, I've built all types of data products, from scalable predictive machine learning models to full stack observability applications, spanning industries including finance, real estate, cloud computing, education, and security.

Experience

  • Director of Data Science at MongoDB
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    At MongoDB, I lead the company's overall Data Science function, partnering with teams spanning the full business, ranging from Product to Engineering to GTM and more. We work in tandem with Analytics and Data Engineering colleagues to deliver predictive solutions both to internal users and directly to our external customers through the MongoDB platform.

  • Head of Data Science / Machine Learning (AuthØ) at Okta
    Feb 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Led ML/AI across Product, Engineering, & GTM within the 1000+ person AuthØ product unit at Okta, with a proven track record of growing and managing teams of staff/senior/junior-level Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. Model use-cases range from real-time security threat detection to providing forecasting tools for Go-to-Market stakeholders across the enterprise. Beyond models, I also strategize with the broader Engineering organization to architect and build the ML infrastructure needed to deliver Data Science work at scale to our many production environments.

  • DigitalOcean (Greater New York City Area)
    • Engineering Manager
      Jul 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Led engineering and analytics teams working to provide transparency about performance and reliability to our entire organization.

    • Senior Data Science Engineer / Team Lead
      Oct 2015 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      As the inaugural data science engineer at DigitalOcean, a public cloud infrastructure hosting company, I built numerous machine learning applications and highly parallelized pipelines to support business intelligence and analytical tools in the cloud hosting space. As the team lead, I built a data platform on top of which the analytics group provided scalable product and infrastructure insights for action by business leaders enterprise-wide.

  • Machine Learning Data Scientist at CompStak®
    Oct 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Data Scientist at Amplify Education
    Jul 2013 - Oct 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos