Oleg Shipitko is a product and engineering leader specializing in autonomous driving, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Яндекс Роботикс after co-founding and scaling Evocargo’s R&D from 10 to 150 engineers. He combines hands-on technical depth—30 scientific papers, 10 patents, and PhD-level research—with proven operational impact, cutting logistics costs and delivering rapid autopilot commissioning in production. Oleg has built cross-functional processes, IP strategy, and competency frameworks while personally hiring and mentoring dozens of software leaders. He also teaches mobile robotics at top Russian universities, bridging academic research and real-world autonomous vehicle deployment. An early practitioner of L4 systems development, he’s notable for accelerating fleet rollout timelines (service start within two weeks) through tight integration of software, operations, and manufacturing.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Institute for Problems of Information Transmission
Master's degree Space science and technology, Master's degree Space science and technology at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Bachelor's degree Autonomous information and control systems, Bachelor's degree Autonomous information and control systems at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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