Team

Alexander Samarin, Co-founder, VP Product

– 20+ years of experience leading international engineering teams, with deep expertise in AI/ML, Search & Discovery, and Recommender Systems
– Chief Product Officer (B2C, AI) at Wildberries ($45Bn GMV fashion/electronics/etc e-commerce, 100M+ MAU), 6 years as Head of Video Search Products at Yandex (the $20Bn "Russian Google"), 6 years as director of product and marketing at SPIRIT DSP (voice & video engine provider to Apple, AT&T, BT, LG, Viber, Toshiba, among 120+ others)
– 2 Master's degrees: "Computational Physics" and "Networks & Distributed Systems" (with honors), research papers on computer simulation in physics

– 6 years as Head of Development of Computer Vision & Neural Networks at Yandex
– 9 years as CTO & Head of Computer Vision at SPIRIT DSP (=supplier of digital processing solutions for Apple, AT&T, BT, LG, Viber, Toshiba, among 120+ others)
– Co-author of 2 international patents, team member of the winner of an international fashion recognition competition
– Academia: MS in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics (with honors), PhD in Mathematics, Senior researcher at Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics