Alexy Khrabrov

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 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 OSS ecosystems. 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. Alexy is the founding Chair of Generative AI Commons at Linux Foundation and the Head of Community at the newly established AI Alliance, cofounded by IBM and Meta and comprised of more than seventy leading companies, universities, and foundations.