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Alexy Khrabrov
IBM Research
Open Source Science Community Director
Alexy Khrabrov is the Open-Source Science Community Director at IBM Research. He previously was a Technical Ecosystem Development Lead at IBM Quantum, Chief Scientist at Nitro, an Australian public company, a software engineer at Amazon, and a co-founder and engineer at several Bay Area startups. Dr. Khrabrov is an experienced community steward, builder and organizer, having created and run multiple meetups and open-source conferences in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Dr. Khrabrov’s work is focused in community stewardship building distributed systems for ML/AI applications, functional programming, and building partnerships around OSS work. At IBM he started Open-Source Science, an initiative based at NumFOCUS, dedicated to accelerating research around the crucial challenges facing humanity with Open-Source Software and Open Data.