Yana Gonnord
Expert Data Scientist Technical Product Manager Expert
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolYana Gonnord is an Expert Data Scientist and Technical AI Product Manager with over a decade of experience turning advanced ML research into production-grade AI products across gaming, FMCG, HR, marketing, finance, insurance and manufacturing. At Playtika she scoped and delivered real-time personalization and reinforcement-learning recommender platforms that produced double-digit uplifts in business KPIs and orchestrated multidisciplinary teams from research to deployment. Her background spans PySpark pipelines for noisy IoT behavioral data at Philip Morris to multilingual NLP and chatbot systems, reflecting strong end-to-end technical fluency alongside product leadership. She combines an academic grounding in decision theory and experimental economics with hands-on engineering, which helps her translate behavioral insights into actionable product requirements. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Yana is adept at navigating compliance and cross-business stakeholder alignment while accelerating ML models from proof-of-concept to scalable production. A less obvious strength is her history in academic research and teaching, which sharpens her ability to communicate complex models to diverse audiences and drive evidence-based product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration Research, Business Administration, Master of Business Administration Research, Business Administration at ESSEC Business SchoolM.A., Economics, M.A., Economics at EERC/KSEB.S., Applied Mathematics, B.S., Applied Mathematics at Dnipropetrovs'kij Nacional'nij UniversitetData Science, Data Science at S2DS Data Science Camp
English, French, Ukrainian
Github Skills (24)
sentence7
simplify7
sdk7
nodejs6
csharp6
java6
bot-framework5
azure-bot-service5
bots5
python5
conversation5
javascript5
typescript4
entity4
nlp4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yana-ponomarova/enron
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
yana-ponomarova/RelationExtraction
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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