Sofia Terpugova
CEO & Co-founder at SmallTalk2.me
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSofia Terpugova is a CEO and co-founder with 11+ years of experience applying big data and machine learning to user-centric products, currently leading SmallTalk2.me—an AI tool that assesses and improves spoken English for companies and educators. Previously a senior product manager at Yandex, she managed high-load multimedia search services with 30M DAU, drove hundreds of A/B experiments, and launched features that materially improved revenue and engagement. She combines product vision, hands-on UX and technical fluency (including speech recognition and Android development) with a track record of building talent pipelines, having founded a product manager school that produced 500+ alumni. A pragmatic entrepreneur and former Alchemist Accelerator alumnus, she focuses on solving real-world language and accessibility problems with measurable user impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics & Math IT, Master's degree Physics & Math IT at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, RussianProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PotapovaSofia/machine_learning
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
PotapovaSofia/NextBestViewRL
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:56 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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