Andrej Ž is an AI-focused technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building production NLP systems and voice-first products. He co-founded Corrily (YC W21) and unSurvey, a voice AI survey platform now part of G2, and currently serves as AI CTO at G2 driving applied research into scalable language and voice solutions. His work spans high-impact roles at BlackRock—where he sped up sentiment and entity-linking pipelines from days to seconds and led Transformer-based EL models—and at DigitalGenius, delivering unsupervised intent detection for global clients. Combining a PhD in NLP with hands-on startup and enterprise deployment experience, he excels at turning research breakthroughs into robust, low-latency systems. Notably, he has a track record of shipping the first in-production neural models in legacy environments and bringing conversational AI into production at scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Winter 2021 Batch (W21) , Winter 2021 Batch (W21) at Y Combinator
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Natural Language Processing at Royal Holloway, University of London
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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