Konstantin Kotochigov
Team Lead (commercial Search Scenarios) at State University — Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolKonstantin Kotochigov is a data-driven engineering leader with 11 years in analytics and 15 years in IT, currently leading the commercial search scenarios team at Yandex where he applies metrics, funnels, A/B testing and ML to optimize product search. He has built and led analytics teams and end-to-end solutions—from AutoML and recommender systems to ETL and data warehouse architecture—across advertising, marketing and banking domains. As Head of Data Analytics at Weborama and earlier roles in consulting, he combined model development with product-facing engineering, delivering web interfaces (Python/Flask), dashboards and scalable data pipelines (BigQuery, ClickHouse). He also teaches machine learning at HSE, bridging academic rigor with practical deployments. Known for tackling both low-level performance tuning (SQL/ETL optimization) and high-level modeling, he blends deep quantitative training from MSU with hands-on product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School, Advanced Econometrics, Summer School, Advanced Econometrics at London School of Economics and Political ScienceLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
apache-spark6
pyspark6
random-forest6
dataframe6
r6
scala6
Github contributions (5)
konstantin-kotochigov/HSE_excersizes
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
konstantin-kotochigov/RaiffeisenDataCup
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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