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Zhachory Volker

Software Engineer

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About Me

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Highly accomplished Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of full-stack development experience, specializing in Machine Learning (10+ years) and data mining (8+ years). Seeking a challenging Staff Software Engineer position focused on AI/ML within Video or Social domains. Proven expertise in designing and implementing scalable Machine Learning systems, Search and Recommendation stacks, and robust infrastructure. Adept at leveraging diverse technologies to drive significant user engagement, efficiency improvements, and product innovation. Committed to continuous learning and applying cutting-edge techniques to deliver impactful, responsible solutions.

Experience

YouTube

Software Engineer

Working on a multi-faceted team. We create features and metrics in Go for evaluate ranking systems. We maintain and improve multiple mapreduce pipelines to create aggregated logs that calculate ranking metrics to be used for enhancing users’ experience. And we improve the News experience on YouTube Search using clustering algorithms, NLP models, and scalable infrastructure.

Google

Software Engineering Resident

Spent a full year learning Google technologies and rotating with two different teams. In one research team, I worked with NLP and ML with C++ and Python to attach questions to answers/doc space. In the other team, I maintained and added features, like label prop and semi supervised algorithms, to a library made for graph mining for all of Google to use.

Ericsson

System Data & Performance Intern

Developed and maintained full-stack applications and systems to simplify Ericsson’s processes and routines in Polymer/other web frameworks and Python/Java. Managed databases with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase for multiple applications across multiple servers. Mined data from these databases to predict site mis-handlements and suggest possible solutions. Managed computer systems with Hadoop, Linux, and Windows. Created internal marketing campaigns with videos, newsletters, and programs.

Education

University of North Texas

August 2013 - May 2018

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Projects

News Summarizer

A simple summarizer for a news article. Simply add a url of a news article and it will provide a short summary and some metadata about the story.

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Calorie Counter

A short app to estimate calories and macronutrients of any dish or general amounts of food you provide it. I use it daily to count my calories!

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Perlin Noise Playground

A fun space to play around with Perlin Noise on a flat land, a square, and a sphere. Performance enhancements incoming.

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Projects Coming Soon

I have a lot of ideas for projects, I just have to visualize it for everyone to see. :)

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