Vladimir Zaytsev

Vladimir Zaytsev is an experienced technology professional currently functioning as an AI Inference Engineer at Perplexity since September 2024. Previously, Vladimir held the position of Staff Software Engineer at Trunk, where the focus was on Data and Machine Learning Engineering from March 2021 to August 2024. As the Owner and Director of Photography at Outlaw Productions LLC from 2016 to March 2021, Vladimir created short films and commercials. Prior experience includes a significant tenure at Uber Advanced Technologies Group as a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager, specializing in self-driving routing and real-time analytics. Earlier roles include Software Engineer II at A9.com, contributing to backend development for Amazon search suggestions, and Research Programmer at the Information Sciences Institute, focusing on neural machine translation and language understanding. Vladimir's career began as a Software Development Intern at A9.com in 2013. Vladimir holds a Master's degree in Computer Science with a focus on Applied Mathematics from the University of Southern California.