Andrei Venzhega

Andrei Venzhega has a wealth of experience in the technology industry. Andrei began their career at Yandex in 2010 as a Data Scientist and then moved up to become a Data Science Manager. In 2015, they were promoted to Senior Team Lead. In 2018, they joined Avito as Buyers Experience, Search & Recommendations Director and Head of Search and Recommendations Cluster. Andrei'sroles included overseeing Search and Recommendations services, Machine Learning applications, DWH, Product and Tech Metrics and AB testing platform. In 2021, they became the Chief Technology Officer at Animopus, where they were responsible for bringing kids' offline drawings to life. Andrei achieved success by getting the app featured by the Appstore on 30+ markets, outperforming 90% of children apps by weekly retention, increasing day-1 retention rate from 20% to 36%, partnering with DSKY, building a team of 14 people, creating 84 unique cartoons, achieving 45k downloads, localising on 11 languages and having 200k+ kids' drawings uploaded.

Andrei Venzhega obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics, computer science, and data science from Moscow State University between 2004 and 2009. Andrei has also obtained seven certifications from Coursera in the fields of Statistical Inference, Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, Practical Machine Learning, Machine Learning, Regression Models, Statistical Reasoning for Public Health 1: Estimation, Inference, & Interpretation, and R Programming between 2014 and 2015.