Alexander Alten

Data Scientist

https://talent.gravityer.com/alexander-alten

PMC Apache Wayang, co-founder @scalytics, author.

scalytics

Key Strengths

Demonstrated proficiency in Python for data-related tasks, including Kafka integration and AI/ML models.
Experience with data streaming technologies (Kafka, S3) and related tooling (kaf-s3, kaf-inspect).
Exposure to AI/ML concepts through the 'LSTM-NNW' and 'docai' projects, indicating foundational knowledge in data science.
Familiarity with Docker for containerization, which is valuable for deploying data science solutions.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects show a strong inclination towards personal, self-driven initiatives, which can indicate proactivity and passion. However, the lack of team-based projects or contributions to open-source initiatives makes it difficult to assess collaboration and cultural alignment within a team setting. The projects are diverse in technology but consistently lean towards data engineering and AI/ML, aligning with a Data Scientist role.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. The candidate's project descriptions are concise, but there is no information on collaboration, problem-solving approaches, or communication style.

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Projects

platform

December 16, 2025 – Present

KafScale delivers Kafka-compatible data streaming on S3. Scale infinitely, stateless brokers and processors.

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kaf-inspect

August 4, 2025 – December 6, 2025

Kafka CLI for inspection and debugging: find duplicates, check consumer lag, grep/peek messages, list topics, and overview your cluster. Fast and minimal Python tool.

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kaf-s3

August 4, 2025 – December 6, 2025

Kafka <-> S3 offload producer/consumer with integrity checks, DLQ, compression, and Prometheus metrics.

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XRPayroll

December 24, 2024 – December 6, 2025

Simplify cross-border payments using RLUSD / XRPL to hedge FIAT exchange fees and speedup payments

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docai

May 24, 2024 – December 6, 2025

Local-first OCR → Markdown → RAG toolkit with optional Hugging Face/custom endpoints. Tk UI for viewing, OCR-ing, and chatting with PDFs; Docker/pyproject ready; pluggable OCR/embeddings/LLM.

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LSTM-NNW

November 20, 2020 – Present

Specialized LSTM & AI models

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bacnet-mqtt-gateway

March 21, 2019 – Present

Production-ready BACnet to MQTT gateway with REST API, web UI, bounded polling, writes, and observability.

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FreeIPA

October 4, 2016 – October 4, 2016

FreeIPA scripts

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Slack

September 12, 2016 – September 12, 2016

Slack integration hacks

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airflow-salt

July 13, 2016 – July 13, 2016

Airflow operator and hook to communicate with Saltstack's API

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Key Strengths

Demonstrated proficiency in Python for data-related tasks, including Kafka integration and AI/ML models.
Experience with data streaming technologies (Kafka, S3) and related tooling (kaf-s3, kaf-inspect).
Exposure to AI/ML concepts through the 'LSTM-NNW' and 'docai' projects, indicating foundational knowledge in data science.
Familiarity with Docker for containerization, which is valuable for deploying data science solutions.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Alexander Alten

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

Top Skills

Skills

Experience

Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit