Summary
Vladi Manaev is a seasoned engineering leader and Director of R&D with 12 years at Taboola, rising from front-end integrator to architecting the advertising platform that helped scale the business from under $1M to $1.5B in annual revenue. He combines hands-on systems design with people leadership, having repeatedly rearchitected Taboola’s auction and advertiser-facing APIs while managing and mentoring teams of 3–30 engineers. As advertising platform tech lead he oversees cross-R&D platform architecture, billing and self-service funnels, and served as the technical authority on large integrations such as Yahoo. Comfortable shipping both backend and frontend solutions at web scale, he’s skilled at turning legacy systems into extensible, high-throughput platforms. Based in London with roots in Israel, Vladi pairs deep product knowledge of ad tech workflows with a pragmatic, iterative approach to large-scale engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
English, Russian, Hebrew