Alex Gorbachev Email Address

Cloud Chief Technology Officer and Head of Enterprise Data Science

Pythian is a global IT services company specializing in consulting and operational support. We help companies leverage disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems.

TL;DR: Passionate about impact, sustainability & diversity. Data junkie. Cloud aficionado. ML FTW. Code rules. Oakie. Blogger. Speaker. Meta Privacy Data Eng. X-Pythian CTO. Data roots in Oracle. Alex is a technologist focusing on Data, Cloud, ML/ AI and blockchain domains. He builds A+ teams. He provides strategic technology advice and guidance, defines cloud architectures, designs solutions, and yet he still writes code, troubleshoots problems and builds ML models. He has outstanding business acumen and emotional intelligence. At Meta (Facebook), Alex is working on the top privacy initiatives to reengineer Meta’s privacy and turn up side down the beaten up privacy image of Facebook. Leading techie on the Meta's broadest privacy compliance program. In his years at Pythian, Alex has been taking on numerous roles including building new services offerings such as Big Data, Data Science, DevOps, and Enterprise Data Platforms, heading R&D and IT Operations. Alex Gorbachev is a respected leader in the data community and a sought-after speaker at data conferences around the globe including leading events such as Strata Conference, Hadoop Summit, Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud Summit, Oracle Open World, Collaborate, UKOUG, and Hotsos Symposium as well as many regional conferences. He’s been publishing articles on the Pythian blog and is a co-author of two books. Alex was on the board of IOUG, Independent Oracle User Group. While living in Australia, Alex has established an active Oracle community in Sydney - Sydney Oracle Meetup. Alex is also the founder of The BAAG Party (Battle Against Any Guess) - the community of enthusiasts promoting scientific troubleshooting techniques. The moments free from work, Alex enjoys sports, spends time outdoors, and occasionally does some woodworking, painting, and photography. He never misses a chance to have a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and knows where his towel is.