Andrew Yaroshevsky

Director, AI/ML

2022 - Current

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

AI/ML

2020 - 2022

Building the future. Obviously super secret. 🤫

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.

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).

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.

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.

Engineering Manager

2008 - 2010

Engineering Manager

2006 - 2008

Software Engineer

2006 - 2006

Software Engineer

2004 - 2006