Aleks Kamko

AI Infra Engineer @ Figma

United States

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Generalist Engineering leader with a record of developing AI foundation models and pioneering browser tech. Drove key projects at Playground and Mighty, fostering product improvement and team expansion. Dedicated to leveraging AI and software engineering to shape future solutions. ⏪ Mighty, CrowdAI, Stripe, Twitch, Facebook, 2+ years teaching at UC Berkeley on Operating Systems & Data Structures 🎓 EECS Master of Engineering from UC Berkeley. Focus on Deep Learning + Systems

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Experience (14 roles)

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Current

Figma · Full-time

Sep 2024 - Present · 11 mos·Santa Monica, California, United States · Remote

Building AI Infra at Figma to make it easy to go from idea to product.

Generative AI Research Engineer

Playground AI · Full-time

Nov 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos·Remote

• Developed Playground v2 and v2.5, two state-of-the-art open-source foundation models for image generation; our latest model ties Midjourney v6 in aesthetic quality. Involved in all aspects: data, training, evaluation, and infra. • Filtered and LLM-captioned 650M image dataset for pretraining. Cura...

Full-time · 2 yrs 10 mos

2 roles · Feb 2020 - Nov 2022

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos·Remote, The Internet

First hire. Transitioned to management, where I led a team of 10 staff-level Browser Engineers across multiple business-critical projects, including: • Optimizing browser rendering, video encoding, and audio streaming pipelines to minimize latency to 10s of milliseconds • Porting native app from Mac...

Founding Engineer

Feb 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos·Remote, The Internet

Incubated Mighty from prototype phase to a stable product with 1000s of paying DAUs, >10K MRR. Highlights from my time as an IC: • Forked the Chromium codebase. Hacked the browser rendering pipeline to stream an unlimited number of browser windows at low latency. Self-taught Vulkan & OpenGL, NVIDIA...

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Education (2)

University of California, Berkeley

2016 - 2017

University of California, Berkeley

2012 - 2016

Skills (35)

Mobile ApplicationsGenerative ArtUser Experience Design (UED)Data ProcessingLow LatencyEngineering ManagementProduct EngineeringIonic FrameworkPython (Programming Language)Computer VisionRapid PrototypingReactKubernetesReactFigmaIonicLinuxMachine LearningGenerative AILive Video StreamingInfrastructureEngineering LeadershipNode.jsDeep LearningFigma (Software)React.jsObjective-CNode.jsCloudAWSAzurePythonTwitchTwitchFigma

Languages (2)▼

Russian(Limited working proficiency)English(Native or bilingual proficiency)

Honors & Awards (3)▼

National AP Scholar

Issued by College Board · May 2012

2012 Schneider Electric Scholarship of Excellence

Issued by Pelco by Schneider Electric · Aug 2012

Associated with University of California, Berkeley

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor

Issued by University of California, Berkeley · May 2017

Associated with University of California, Berkeley

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What is Aleks Kamko's current role?▼

Aleks Kamko is currently working as AI Infrastructure Engineer at Figma · Full-time.

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Aleks Kamko studied Master of Engineering, Data Science & Systems at University of California, Berkeley. They have 2 education entries on their profile.

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Aleks Kamko's top skills include Mobile Applications, Generative Art, User Experience Design (UED), Data Processing, Low Latency. They have 35 skills listed on their profile.

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Aleks Kamko is based in United States.