Andrei Lopatenko
Andrei Lopatenko

Strategic and operational technology and product leader from startups to Fortune 1 companies ; managed people, strategy, operations to design, implement, improve, operate search engines for billions of users, 15 billions revenue and achieved hundreds of millions of dollars per year gains. Designed, implemented products for hundreds of millions of users. Led teams in search, machine learning, data engineering, product, analytics operating core business technologies. Designing, building, and scaling consumer-facing AI productsin : Real Estate (Zillow), eCommerce (Walmart, eBay), Web(Google), Retail Grocery (Walmart), iTunes and AppStore Search and Discovery (Apple), Maps (Google Apple). Deep expertise improving, designing, leading the world-leading search engines with full ecosystems (data acquisition, ML, evaluation, experimentation, UX) --- head of search: Zillow, Walmart, eBay. --- co-designed/co-implemented: Apple Maps (2010), Walmart Grocery, --- core contributor: Google Web Search 2006-2010, Apple AppStore, iTunes Co-founder/Adviser: Ozlo, acquired by Facebook in 2017 Development, Product, operations of ML platforms, products transforming businesses with AI: systems processings billions of events per day, petabytes of data. Published at top conferences (cited 1214, hindex 18), 23 patents PhD Computer Science Google Operating Committee Award, 2010 Boards of non-profits, 140M revenue, 1B assets Hired, coached: ICs, managers, directors; built and led global (US, India, Germany, China) cross-functional teams spanning technology, product, research, operations, analytics delivering high impact results to the business stakeholders. Developed teams with scope: research and development, business analytics, ops: driving scalability, stability, reliability, operability of services As organizational enabler and leader transformed --SWE teams to science-driven teams --research organizations into delivering high-quality software with big business impact organizations In partnership with business, product, ops, I built product & technology strategies aligned with the business, advocated, transformed into operational plans, roadmaps, OKRs, and execution (100+ persons). Participated in strategic acquisitions and procurement. Successfully led strategic planning, budgeting, management of technology initiatives Applied ML, DL and NLP, statistics to search, voice analytics, ads, geodata. 2014 As IC: Core contributor to Google's web search ranking algorithm Co-designed/implemented Apple Map Search (c++) * ranking, query understanding * retrieval, indexing systems * evaluation, experimentation

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Andrei Lopatenko

Andrei Lopatenko

VP Engineering in Zillow. Leading Search, Conversational, Voice AI, ML in Zillow, eBay, Walmart, Apple, Google, Recruit Holdings. Ph.D. in Computer Science