Eldar Sadikov

Eldar Sadikov has a strong background in technology and entrepreneurship. Eldar is currently the Co-Founder & CEO at Field Materials, a material purchasing software company that utilizes AI. Prior to this, Eldar was the Head of Engineering, Access Control at Verkada, where they achieved significant growth in revenue and expanded the engineering team. Eldar also held the position of Sr. Director, Product & Engineering at PayPal from 2018 to 2020. Eldar has experience as a founder and CEO at Jetlore and as a Research Scientist at both Microsoft and Google. Additionally, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Bit Group, Inc. and as a Software Engineer at Sapient. Eldar's work has had an impact on search engine design, ranking, and advertising.

Eldar Sadikov holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University, which they obtained from 2001 to 2005. Eldar then pursued a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010. Concurrently with their master's degree, Sadikov also pursued a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University from 2007 to 2010.