Alexander Bocharoff
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Bocharoff is a seasoned software leader and ML engineering executive with 16 years of experience building high-performance, scalable systems in real time. He has a strong multi-language footprint spanning Rust, Go, and Python, and covers the full lifecycle from architecture to deployment. As Senior Principal ML Engineer and Tech Lead at Cloudflare, he drives security products like Bot Management and WAF, shaping architectures that handle 50M+ HTTP requests per second. He led ultra-low-latency initiatives, including the BLISS Rust-based platform with zero heap allocations per request, and spearheaded JA4 fingerprint/signals integration across Workers, WAF, and Logs/Analytics. He is an inventor with a patent in inter-process serving of ML features and an active open-source contributor, authoring mmap-sync and cardinality-estimator Rust crates with 400+ stars. Based in Austin, TX, he also contributes to AGI research at xAI since 2024, blending research with production-scale ML engineering.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Computer Science at Zaporiz'ka Deržavna Inženerna Akademija
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
201reputation
26kreached
10answers
0questions
Github Skills (74)
sketches10
olap10
embedded10
cpp10
cloud-native10
memory-mapping10
wait-free10
big-data10
unsafe10
sql10
ai10
rust10
database10
bigquery10
mysql10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/cardinality-estimator
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
A crate for estimating the cardinality of distinct elements in a stream or dataset.
Contributions:12 reviews, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 months
cardinality-estimationdistinct-elementshyperloglogprobalistic-data-structuressketches
bocharov/ClickHouse
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
ClickHouse is a free analytic DBMS for big data.
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
data-analyticsanalyticsdbmsmysqlanalytic
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