Yana Valieva
Senior Data Science Manager
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYana Valieva is a Senior Data Science Manager at Microsoft with nine years of experience building and scaling AI solutions for Financial Services and Insurance clients. She combines hands-on technical expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and MLOps with strategic engagement at CTO and VP levels to shape project vision and drive adoption of responsible AI. Yana has a proven track record of improving model and pipeline performance—doubling model accuracy, quadrupling training throughput, and cutting labeling time from 18 to 2 days—while designing experimentation platforms for regulated environments. A former individual contributor with a Master’s in Computer Science, she also created a widely used Responsible AI workshop that influenced practices across a 1,000+ person organization. Based in New York, she thrives at the intersection of technical execution, stakeholder alignment, and operationalizing AI in enterprise settings.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Bioinformatics school by Bioinformatics InstituteInternet of Things, Internet of Things at Microsoft Summer School on Internet of ThingsMachine Learning Computer Vision Robotics, Machine Learning Computer Vision Robotics at All-Russian Youth School on Robotics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision (Roboschool)
Russian, English, German
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Github Skills (66)
agile10
detection-model10
r9
computation9
sdk9
regression9
data-mining9
agile-development9
classification9
kaggle9
cpu9
product-management9
drift9
cuda9
gradient-boosting8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vJenny/student-helper-bot
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 months
botbotframeworksimple-bot
vJenny/reversi-game
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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