Slava Agafonov
Staff Engineer at Meta
Slava Agafonov
Staff Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Staff Engineer
2024 - Current
Cross-Integrity (XI) problem space search initiatives on Instagram and Facebook, addressing moderation challenges in 6 high-risk areas like child safety, human exploitation, fraud and drugs. I created scalable tools and automated content workflows for 500 content reviews per day in searches on type ahead and SERP. My work on the Searchability team for Facebook and Instagram handled billions of daily classifications for text, image and complex entities like profiles, pages or groups. I built language-agnostic systems to enforce content violations, using PyTorch, Fluent2, Hack, Mercurial and Python.
Software Architect
2011 - 2024
✓ Architected Azure Geo data center expansion cycle time through architectural enhancements and integration of OpenAI into rollout workflows for new data centers across the globe ✓ Architected HoloLens Integrated Visual Augmentation System and Devices Manufacturing Test. Set up infrastructure and security in lab and factory. Onboarded a new factory in USA. Delivered defect-free device hardware and software 1.2 to US Congress and military ✓ Fraud detection project for $10B supply chain using IoT data and ML, saving $18M annually. Worked with engineers across 3 time zones on advanced analytics using Azure DevOps, improved repos to be compliant, and made secure pipelines and data lakes ✓ Xbox accessories and Hardware Security Module updates - $60M savings for Microsoft Devices ✓ Intelligent Radio Frequency Machine Learning pipelines for multiple Surface Book laptops, Surface Phone Duo including 5G and Wi-Fi. AI based framework saved time and space in the global factories. ✓ Led AI Core projects in Bing Search. Created Knowledge Graph answers for Bing.com and Office. ✓ Scalable service for NLP project NEMO. Built CI, dashboards, and tools for Excel. Improved performance and memory 300% ✓ Mentored team of four to build portal for content type and encumbrances. Integrated with Bing Entity Pane, Bing Knowledge API ✓ Led team of three to develop Bing Ads Content API v2. Made migration tools from Google and increased revenue to $12M. Onboarded major customers ✓ Service to send ad emails from SMTP server - 1M per hour ✓ Engine to extract and upload storage content in Azure Table. Supported speed over 1000 rows per second ✓ Service for credit card payments and Commerce Transaction Platform integration ✓ Automated tests and fixed bugs for Bing Business Portal, MSN offers, and Loyalty service ✓ Automation for CAP for on-call support in Windows, MSN, and Xbox. Resolved 100 product bugs ✓ Developed WPF UI automation with 70% coverage for Windows and Office live support teams
Tech Lead Software Engineer
2010 - 2011
Reverse engineered and verified surgical device in Boston with software on O-arm X-ray system. ✓ Improved O-arm stability with TCP/IP network framework. ✓ Saved time and money for lab testing and travel. ✓ Made web tool for log analysis and Excel integration. Boosted support team productivity and debugging speed. ✓ Enhanced communication framework with keep-alive and XML validation. Increased application and network performance. ✓ Built hardware emulator for remote development.
Tech Lead Software Consultant
2008 - 2009
Worked as a consultant and remote offshore team in Ukraine to acquire new businesses in publishing, recruitment, and e-commerce. Traveled extensively for new projects to Europe and USA. ✓ Built new system and team for all projects. ✓ Consulted Talents, an online recruitment application. ✓ Solved and implemented problems for IBM, Yorkshire Water Services, and Hampton’s. ✓ Analyzed hiring process and workflows for IBM, Siemens, and Vodafone. ✓ Created portal to link with external servers via web services for recruiting agencies. ✓ Developed e-publishing platform for Apex CoVantage to improve OCR for publishers.
Senior Software Engineer
2005 - 2008
Worked full-time while studying bachelor’s degree. Led team of 3 to develop projects for Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs. Trained employees to create applications for phone station certifications and surveillance. Extracted data from GSM and CDMA stations for security personnel. ✓ Created unique message protocols for Lucent/Alcatel phone station. Increased coverage for Intertelecom from 5 to 16 regions. ✓ Certified three positions for Utel and onboarded MTS in Ukraine and Russia. ✓ Mentored team of 5, built core encoding/decoding framework for Huawei, Ericsson, and Lucent stations. ✓ Made client/server program (Switch Node) to emulate and follow network protocol messages.