Leonid Taycher
Technical Advisor at VuuAI
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Taycher is a seasoned software engineering leader and advisor with over two decades of experience building knowledge management, search and ML-driven systems across industries from computer vision to fintech. He has led teams of 5–25 engineers through tight deadlines, shipping backend architectures that span massive MapReduce jobs to low-latency search and entity alignment systems used at firms like Twitter, Google and Kensho. Equally comfortable in C++ and higher-level languages (Scala, Java, Python, JavaScript), he combines deep technical problem-solving with strong product sense and a preference for empowering engineers over micromanagement. As CTO at WireScreen he took a platform from zero to significant revenue, and today advises multiple startups while running a stealth project aimed at reducing device dependence through better learning tools. He holds advanced CS training from MIT and Boston University and is notable for maintaining hands-on development even in senior advisory roles.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA computer Science, MA computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (36)
arcadedb10
orientdb10
graph-store10
graphql-query10
graph-database9
nosql9
geospatial9
indexing9
graph9
rdbms9
sql9
document-database9
database9
relational-databases9
dbms8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kensho/flask-jsonrpc
May 2016 - Aug 2017
A basic JSON-RPC implementation for your Flask-powered sites
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
rpcpythonflask-apiflasksites
lodrion/sak
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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