Dmitry Belyaev

Managing the day-to-day operational aspects of infrastructure projects in web-search department. Providing guidance during the analysis, technical design, testing, and post implementation phases. Major Achievements: - Integrated the platform of ABT and TDI experiments on the mobile web-search. - Launched projects of search infrastructure performance measurement and analytics. - Deployed the first stage of infrastructure platform responsible for networking between the web-search components.

Strategy planning of multimedia search services development, project prioritization. Competitive analysis, study of user preferences and needs in different countries (Russia, Turkey, Czech Republic). Organization of online experiments and focus groups. Participating in the development of metrics and KPIs, data and experiment driven design making. Process and team management (up to 45 developers, 15 project and product managers and analysts). Coordination of work between departments and with partners.

Products development planning and feature prioritization. Development and evolution of multilevel system of metrics (offline/technical, online/users, and business). Process and team management (up to 10 project and product managers and analysts), hiring, coaching, and motivation.

Analytics of user's needs, classification of image retrieval scenarios. Evolutional development of KPI's and metrics of Yandex.Images. Planning of product development, use case specification for developers and designers. Online and offline experiments organization. Product launches coordination.

Process and team management (up to 7 developers, 2 project managers and 1 UI designer) – hiring, coaching, and motivation. Project’s budget management, resources plaining, project progress control. Communication and coordination between the customers and development team. Development of internal policies and procedures, cooperation with other departments.

Gathering customer's functional requirements, pre-project research. Writing technical proposals, project, and contract specifications. Relations with project stakeholders (Sales / R&D / Marketing / Finance).

Support and development of the computer-aided systems of Credit and Deposit departments of the bank.

Investigation of mathematical models and automated methods for the quality improvement of information retrieval systems by analysis of users behavior. Thesis: "The context-associative model of texts for search queries extension with relevance feedback from users".

Expert systems and Databases. Mathematical aspects of Control Theory. Informatics and Programming.