Summary
Yuriy Loukachev is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Salesforce with eight years of experience building AI platforms, agent systems, and infrastructure tooling. Over seven years at Salesforce he’s moved between data science, product management, and ML engineering, translating capacity planning and FinOps needs into production ML and platform features. Earlier, he co-founded Mastercard’s data philanthropy program, creating privacy-first frameworks to enable academic research on economic development—demonstrating a long-standing interest in democratizing powerful datasets and tools. He combines rigorous academic training (MS in Data Science from Columbia) with hands-on engineering leadership, focusing on making complex systems accessible to non-expert users. Based in San Francisco, Yuriy pairs cross-functional product instincts with technical depth in infrastructure and ML to ship scalable, privacy-aware solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics at University of Connecticut
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Columbia University
Russian, English