Vadim Kokhtev
Product Lead at Yandex
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Kokhtev is a product leader and machine learning practitioner with 11 years of experience building ranking and recommendation systems, currently leading buyer experience services for Auto.ru at Yandex. He progressed from hands-on ML engineering to Head of ML and Product Manager roles across Yandex Classifieds, combining deep technical expertise with product ownership. Vadim teaches advanced ML and recommender systems at HSE and other platforms, and contributes coursework and practical assignments to an HSE machine learning repo used in university classes. His background in applied math, financial technologies, and industry ML work gives him a strong analytical approach to product metrics and experimentation. Colleagues value him for translating complex ranking algorithms into measurable user-facing improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Магистр, Финансовые технологии и анализ данных, Магистр, Финансовые технологии и анализ данных at Высшая Школа Экономики
Github Skills (9)
scikit-learn10
jupyter-notebook10
machine-learning10
python10
gradient-boosting10
scikit10
data-science9
numpy9
pandas8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
esokolov/ml-course-hse
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Машинное обучение на ФКН ВШЭ
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 7 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Vadim's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying seminar materials for a machine learning course. The changes include the addition of introductory materials on machine learning concepts, tasks, and tools. The commits also involve adding homework assignments related to gradient boosting, suggesting an emphasis on practical application of machine learning techniques.
python
Kokhtev/HSE-teaching
Feb 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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