Valeriya Sinevich
Senior Software Engineer at YouTube
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolValeriya Sinevich is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 10 years of experience building scalable recommendation and infrastructure systems at YouTube and prior internships across Google, Microsoft, Instagram, and Intel. She specializes in modernizing infrastructure and eliminating technical debt, having led an internal service that supports vertical YouTube products and maintained core recommendation signals. Recently she's been embracing LLMs for product features at YouTube, blending applied AI expertise from a master's in Artificial Intelligence (MIPT) with pragmatic engineering. Known for measurable impact—such as a 10x latency reduction during an Azure Notebooks internship—she combines research-caliber thinking with hands-on delivery at web scale. Not immediately obvious: she moves fluidly between data-driven analysis and infrastructure work, making her effective at both signal-quality improvements and production reliability.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, French, Russian
Github Skills (18)
python10
programming-language9
api4
api-documentation3
rest-api3
signature3
swagger2
sas2
openapi2
cifs2
microsoft-azure1
smb1
cpython1
microsoft1
azure1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ValeriyaSinevich/fizteh-java-2015
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:32 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
ValeriyaSinevich/cpython
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
The Python programming language
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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