Mio Alter

Hello! I am a software engineer based in NYC.

I have built Machine Learning systems for both batch and real-time inference, and co-authored Rainier, a Scala library for Bayesian inference.

Most recently, I was on the ML Platform team at Spotify; before that I worked on ML and ML infrastructure at Stripe. Prior to moving into industry, I received a PhD in Math from UT-Austin and, some time before that, I worked at the infamous Kim's Video. It turns out that having to figure out how technical stuff works without getting lost in the details and enjoying digging up esoteric connections between things—e.g. that the cat in Darkman (1990) is the cat in Pet Sematary (1989)—are both pretty useful skills in software!

I'm a big fan of types and functional programming. Scala, Java, and Python are the langauges I have the most experience writing, but I have dabbled in a handful of others and I'm always excited to learn new things.