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Andrew Yaroshevsky

AI/ML Director at Google | ex-  Apple, Amazon | Y Combinator alum

Mountain View, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Machine Learning
Leadership
Product Management
Product Development
Software Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Data Science
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Data Mining
Data Annotation
System Architecture
Distributed Systems
Web Development
Entrepreneurship
Product Innovation
User Experience Design (UED)
Program Management
Agile Project Management
Scrum

Education

Work Experience

2022

  • Director, AI/ML

    2022

    ✨ Raising world’s curiosity with Google Discover – a highly personalized content feed with billions of users.

2020 - 2022

  • AI/ML

    2020 - 2022

    Building the future. Obviously super secret. 🤫

2018 - 2020

  • AI/ML Lead, Search Quality

    2018 - 2020

    Led a team of ML engineers as a product & engineering manager in Search Science & AI (A9). Championed a new program for improving search quality. Influenced almost a thousand of engineers that run search experiments across the company: created a new human-annotated relevance metric used to validate every experiment, benchmark with competitors and report to SVPs. The new mechanism covered 200+ of experiments to improve on this metric in a year, translating into +$2B of incremental revenues.

2015 - 2018

  • Chief Product Officer

    2015 - 2018

    Built a B2B SaaS from the ground up to $millions in ARR. Chatfuel allows businesses to create NLP chatbots for Facebook Messenger without any coding skills. Went through Y Combinator, fundraised $MM from Yandex, Greylock, 500 Startups. Built a partnership with Facebook and its execs, featuring Chatfuel on stage at the annual Facebook F8 conference. Grew a profitable market leading solution used by Fortune 500 companies, being in charge of product and operations (CPO & COO).

2010 - 2016

  • GM, Image Search

    2010 - 2016

    http://images.yandex.com – market leading in RU. Led an ML-heavy team of product managers, engineers and scientists (ranking, computer vision, data science, search infra). Raised the market share, revenue and profit margins by double-digits.

2008 - 2010

  • Head of R&D, Search

    2008 - 2010

    Built a consumer-facing search product for public libraries of Scandinavia (think of Amazon for books & media, but covered by EU government with your tax contributions). Hired and led a team of computer scientists in Ukraine as an engineering leader and a PM. I was in charge of system and product design as well.

2008 - 2010

  • Engineering Manager

    2008 - 2010

2006 - 2008

  • Engineering Manager

    2006 - 2008

2006 - 2006

  • Software Engineer

    2006 - 2006

BMstudio

2004 - 2006

  • Software Engineer

    2004 - 2006