Summary
Karina Bunyik is a Senior Data Science & AI leader with 12+ years of experience building experimentation, measurement, and ML functions at scale, most recently leading data science teams at Spotify and now at Ontra. She combines hands-on modeling (Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, NLP prototypes) with product-facing leadership—hiring, mentoring, and setting roadmaps for monetization and trust & safety products. Karina has rebuilt experimentation platforms, educated hundreds of engineers and PMs on statistical practices, and operationalized models and ETLs into production dashboards. Comfortable bridging engineering, UX and product, she excels at turning ambiguous research and complex logs into reliable metrics and decision frameworks. Based in upstate New York, she brings a rare mix of rigorous academic ML training and pragmatic production experience across ad tech, content safety, and analytics.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
Master's Degree Machine Learning, Master's Degree Machine Learning at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, Serbian, Hungarian