Satnam Alag
Senior Vice President Software Engineering at GRAIL, Inc.
- Role
- Senior Vice President Software Engineering and Chief Security Officer at GRAIL
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Satnam Alag
Dr Alag is a seasoned software professional with over fifteen years of commercial software development and management experience, with over twenty years of experience in the machine learning and search areas. His expertise is in Big Data technologies, building large-scale multi-tenant SaaS applications, applying intelligence and personalization to Web 2.0 applications, SOA and J2EE architectures, delivering high quality software, and building high performing engineering teams. He is currently the CTO and VP of Engineering at NextBio. NextBio is a data-driven engine, which is at the intersection of Big Data and genomics. At NextBio, he leads a team that mines billions and billions of data points using the Hadoop stack and commodity hardware (see video on Intel’s site: Prior to joining NextBio, he worked as a consultant with Johnson and Johnson\'s BabyCenter where he helped develop their personalization engine. Prior to that he was the Chief Software Architect and Dir. of Application Engineering at Rearden Commerce. He began his career at GE R&D and has held senior technical and management positions at Computing Technologies International and Black Pearl. Satnam is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) for the Java platform. His doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley was in the area of probabilistic reasoning and machine learning. He has a number of peer-reviewed publications, holds five patents. He is the author of the book \"Collective Intelligence in Action\" available at Big Data, Hadoop, HBase, J2EE, SOA, Machine Learning, Web 2.0, Collective Intelligence, Multi-tenant architectures, recommendation engines, web and text mining, search, web crawling
Experience
Senior Vice President Software Engineering and Chief Security Officer
Apr 2020 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US
Education
Rutgers University
M.S, Engineering
1991 — 1993
Stanford University
Advanced Cybersecurity Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
UC Extension, Various courses in Computer Science and Management
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
B.E., Engineering
1987 — 1991
Stanford University
Product Management Certificate
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D, Engineering
1993 — 1996
Skills
- Product Development
- Perl
- Software Development
- Nosql
- Python
- Personalization
- Integration
- Scalability
- Lucene
- Web Applications
- Machine Learning
- Open Source
- Organizational Leadership
- Jsp
- Hadoop
- Search
- Object Oriented Design
- Rest
- Databases
- Java
- Software as a Service
- Hibernate
- Text Mining
- Agile Methodologies
- Mysql
- Distributed Systems
- Design Patterns
- Architecture
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Information Retrieval
- Big Data
- Data Mining
- Cloud Computing
- Soa
- Web Services
- Spring
- Hbase
- Tomcat
- Saas
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