Andrei Danilchenko
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolAndrei Danilchenko is a Staff ML engineer with 12 years of experience building search, recommendation systems, and production machine learning at scale. He has progressed from developer and intern roles into leadership positions at Yandex—culminating in Head of Department and Head of Search Quality—and now leads ML efforts at Shopify from Belgrade. Andrei pairs a strong mathematics background (MS and BS from ITMO University) with hands-on expertise in search relevance, ranking, and RecSys engineering, often bridging research and engineering teams. He has a track record of shipping large-scale search improvements and mentoring teams through product-facing quality challenges. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who moves quickly from experiments to robust production pipelines. Outside core ML work, his career shows a steady pivot from backend development into strategic engineering leadership across major consumer-facing platforms.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
master mathematics, master mathematics at ITMO University
English, Russian, Serbian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
libsvm6
svm6
r6
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maryruby/nn_mimo
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 29 pushes in 1 month
danilchenko-andrey/danilchenko-andrey.github.io
Nov 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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