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Meet over 40&nbsp;IT experts and show them your project, discuss new technologies, or&nbsp;just chat. Meetings will take place online on&nbsp;December 3&nbsp;and 4. Every session participant will be&nbsp;given 15&nbsp;minutes. How to&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up:<ol><li>Browse the list of&nbsp;experts to&nbsp;find one that matches your area of&nbsp;interest.</li> <li>Fill out the form and write a&nbsp;cover letter introducing yourself.</li> <li>Once you&rsquo;ve gone through the selection process, you&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;invited to&nbsp;agree on&nbsp;a&nbsp;time for your chat.</li></ol> Don&rsquo;t delay! Register for a&nbsp;conversation with a&nbsp;top&nbsp;IT professional.

Individual sessions with experts

Will discuss:<ul><li>What it&nbsp;means to&nbsp;be&nbsp;a&nbsp;product director</li> <li>The differences between Russian and western companies and the opportunities they present for career growth</li> <li>Personal development strategies in&nbsp;turbulent times</li></ul> Elena is&nbsp;currently building the Microsoft recommendations feed and content platform. Before starting her current position, she led Yandex Video Search, oversaw all display advertising, and was a&nbsp;product director for Yandex Zen. Fun facts:<ol><li> Co-authored an&nbsp;article on&nbsp;economics with a&nbsp;Nobel laureate (not the Nobel article! An&nbsp;earlier publication).</li> <li> When she was a&nbsp;product director for Yandex Zen, she kept a&nbsp;blog that got a&nbsp;million views in&nbsp;its first month.</li></ol> Recommends these reads: &laquo;Thinking, Fast and Slow&raquo; by&nbsp;Daniel Kahneman

Elena Kunakova

Will talk about:<ul><li>Big tech&nbsp;vs. startups</li> <li>The role personality and processes play in&nbsp;teamwork</li> <li>Career tracks for anyone already at&nbsp;the senior level</li></ul> Alexey is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Candidate of&nbsp;Technical Sciences and Associate Professor at&nbsp;Moscow Institute of&nbsp;Physics and Technology (MIPT), as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;the former Head of&nbsp;Instant and Interactive Search Responses Development. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the mastermind behind Yandex Tutor, has conducted YaTalks and organized Team Leader Meetups, helped launch Yandex Andromeda, and handled clustering for Yandex News. He&nbsp;also teaches at&nbsp;Moscow Power Engineering Institute, MIPT, and HSE. In&nbsp;2020-2021, Alexey worked for Google Switzerland, and he&nbsp;is&nbsp;deeply involved in&nbsp;his own startup at&nbsp;the moment.

Alexey Shagraev

Will talk about:<ul><li>Managing major projects</li> <li>Designing complex systems</li> <li>Personal development</li></ul> Alexander has worked at&nbsp;Tinkoff for the last six years. If&nbsp;there&rsquo;s been a&nbsp;major Russian conference, he&rsquo;s probably been there talking about his professional achievements. Back in&nbsp;his third year at&nbsp;university, he&nbsp;stopped playing games when he&nbsp;realized he&nbsp;got too carried away. Reading became his hobby. For book recommendations, check out his channel: <a href='https://t.me/book_cube' target='_blank'>https://t.me/book_cube</a>.

Alexander Polomodov

Will talk about:<ul><li>Getting through the &laquo;death valley&raquo; between science and product</li> <li>How to&nbsp;start a&nbsp;career in&nbsp;IT and find your niche</li> <li>Experience relocating twice: to&nbsp;San Francisco and to&nbsp;Yerevan</li></ul> Manvel studies artificial intelligence methodologies and applies them to&nbsp;chip design. For a&nbsp;long while, he&nbsp;led applied research at&nbsp;Sber AI&nbsp;Lab, handling everything from medicine and genetics to&nbsp;active learning and even winning a&nbsp;UN competition with one product. He&nbsp;also found time to&nbsp;work at&nbsp;Google and Yandex (speech synthesis, search, Yandex Market). In&nbsp;his spare time, Manvel composes and performs instrumental guitar music. You can give it&nbsp;a&nbsp;listen at&nbsp;mnvl.bandcamp.com. Recommends these reads:<ul><li>The Rust Programming Language by&nbsp;Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols </li> <li>On&nbsp;Becoming a&nbsp;Person by&nbsp;Carl Rogers</li></ul>

Manvel Avetisian

Will talk about:<ul><li>Working with challenging stakeholders and managers</li> <li>Creating startups within a&nbsp;corporation</li> <li>Where to&nbsp;start when coming up&nbsp;with a&nbsp;team and company structure</li></ul> Sergey manages&nbsp;IT and digital development at&nbsp;a&nbsp;large federal bank, building a&nbsp;technological organization on&nbsp;par with the leaders in&nbsp;the Russian banking market. His main professional focuses are people and team building and he&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;expert in&nbsp;organizational design, corporate culture, and management methodologies. Sergey built a&nbsp;remote development center staffed by&nbsp;300&nbsp;people, rebuilt Raiffeisen Bank&rsquo;s brand as&nbsp;an&nbsp;IT employer, and created a&nbsp;professional&nbsp;IT team from scratch at&nbsp;a&nbsp;large federal bank. He&nbsp;grew up&nbsp;in&nbsp;Sakhalin, has traveled to&nbsp;more than 50&nbsp;countries, and speaks three languages. Recommends these reads:<ul><li>Thinking, Fast and Slow by&nbsp;Daniel Kahneman</li> <li>Games People Play by&nbsp;Eric Berne</li> <li>The Art of&nbsp;Action by&nbsp;Stephen Bungay</li></ul>

Sergey Shcherbinin

Will talk about:<ul><li>Drawing up&nbsp;a&nbsp;career development plan</li> <li>How to&nbsp;overcome conflict in&nbsp;teams</li> <li>The importance of&nbsp;having a&nbsp;personal brand and preparing before public speaking</li></ul> Anastasia has been working at&nbsp;Yandex since 2020, where she manages the repository ecosystem service and intranet search. She also leads several joint projects to&nbsp;advance the development technology department. She runs DevTools Parties and Infrastructure Saturdays. A&nbsp;popularizer of&nbsp;soft skills development in&nbsp;IT, Anastasia is&nbsp;on&nbsp;the program committee for the Podlodka Soft Skills Crew and Yet Another Level and also runs a&nbsp;Telegram channel for new managers. She also organizes fun teambuilding exercises and regular Dungeons and Dragons games for her teams.

Anastasia Abrashitova

Will talk about:<ul><li>Career tracks for developers</li> <li>How to&nbsp;communicate well with a&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;people</li> <li>How to&nbsp;foster growth for yourself and your team</li></ul> Since 2015, Eugene has focused on&nbsp;Android development. He&rsquo;s currently a&nbsp;mobile engineering lead at&nbsp;Yandex Eats, though he&rsquo;s been with Yandex since 2017 and previously worked in&nbsp;a&nbsp;similar role for Yandex Transport. Outside of&nbsp;work, he&nbsp;hosts a&nbsp;podcast called Podlodka and organizes Podlodka Crew conferences. Recommends these reads:<ul><li>The Goal: A&nbsp;Process of&nbsp;Ongoing Improvement by&nbsp;Eliyahu Goldratt</li> <li>Thinking, Fast and Slow by&nbsp;Daniel Kahneman</li> <li>Lord of&nbsp;the Flies by&nbsp;William Golding</li></ul>

Eugene Katella

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Космонавтика похожа на&nbsp;современную IT-индустрию. Кропотливая разработка, поиск решений и&nbsp;долгожданный выход готового продукта на&nbsp;орбиту&nbsp;&mdash; порой будни айтишников больше напоминают работу космических инженеров. Яндекс приглашает каждого, кто пишет код и&nbsp;работает над продуктом, ненадолго вынырнуть из&nbsp;потока задач и&nbsp;осмыслить, как много мы&nbsp;сделали за&nbsp;последнее время и&nbsp;сколько ещё предстоит.

People above all

In&nbsp;addition to&nbsp;reports about lifestyle and technology, at&nbsp;YaTalks 2022, you&rsquo;ll have:<ul><li>Random Coffee with other participants of&nbsp;the conference;</li> <li>meetups and individual consultations with leading experts at&nbsp;Russian and international&nbsp;IT companies;</li> <li>live coding: solving algorithms in&nbsp;a&nbsp;lighthearted contest of&nbsp;speed.</li></ul> Reports, debates, helpful and inspiring conversations with interesting people. Join a&nbsp;like-minded crowd and invite your friends.

Participate online and meet offline&nbsp;&mdash; together

In&nbsp;this track, we&rsquo;ll talk about living and working in&nbsp;today&rsquo;s reality. We&rsquo;ll discuss professional growth, building teams, and fighting off crises. Additionally, we&rsquo;ll:<ul><li>find out how big data helps make scientific discoveries in&nbsp;space;</li> <li>learn why games are helpful for professional development;</li> <li>discuss how parenthood helps people be&nbsp;efficient at&nbsp;work;</li> <li>and much more.</li></ul>

About life

Technology isn&rsquo;t the end goal; it&rsquo;s a&nbsp;tool that helps&nbsp;us make the world better, safer, more convenient, and more interesting. This will become the leitmotif of&nbsp;our tech reports. This year, you can expect:<ul><li>four thematic tracks: backend, frontend, mobile development, and machine learning; </li> <li>stories about what&rsquo;s hiding under the hood of&nbsp;products and services;</li> <li>project breakdowns and discussions of&nbsp;the hottest topics.</li></ul>

About technologies

People Above All

The challenges we&nbsp;face today often have nothing to&nbsp;do&nbsp;with technology. They call for a&nbsp;different kind of&nbsp;experience&nbsp;&mdash; the kind we&nbsp;accumulate throughout life. Professional connections have become more valuable, and the community has gained more significance than ever. We&nbsp;hold difficult conversations, seek contacts, ask for advice, and form regulations and standards. In&nbsp;2022, YaTalks will be&nbsp;about the things that help&nbsp;us remain human and keep making the world better and simpler with technology.

A 2-city IT community meetup

In&nbsp;Moscow and Belgrade on&nbsp;December 3, right after the first day of&nbsp;the conference, presentations, and discussions, we&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;hosting an&nbsp;offline meetup. This is&nbsp;the perfect time to&nbsp;network with other conference attendees and chat with speakers and experts in&nbsp;an&nbsp;informal setting.
Everyone has a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;attend: just register and select your city. Two weeks before the event, we’ll&nbsp;randomly draw names for each city and send out invitations with the time and place. We’ll&nbsp;see you there!

Individual sessions with experts

Attend online and meet up&nbsp;offline

Technology

Yandex is&nbsp;breaking language barriers

Neural network-driven streaming voice-over translation is&nbsp;a&nbsp;complicated technological task that nobody in&nbsp;the world has managed to&nbsp;achieve yet. Unlike recorded videos, where a&nbsp;neural network immediately is&nbsp;fed the full audio track, streaming requires work on&nbsp;the fly, like a&nbsp;simultaneous interpreter. This year, we&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;streaming YaTalks simultaneously in&nbsp;two languages using these technologies. We&nbsp;believe our solution will help users overcome at&nbsp;least some language barriers and discover a&nbsp;whole new world of&nbsp;content that hasn&rsquo;t been translated yet.

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Frontend is&nbsp;all about people. About users who interact with our interfaces. About developers who create these interfaces and unite the current understanding of&nbsp;human perception with technological possibilities. About a&nbsp;community of&nbsp;active, vibrant, passionate, and progressive people who help advance JavaScript. Open-source projects, dev rockstars, a&nbsp;friendly community&nbsp;&mdash; we&rsquo;ll cover them all.

Backend is&nbsp;always hidden from the user&rsquo;s view: it&rsquo;s something complicated and incomprehensible, buried deep under the hood. But our track is&nbsp;about openness and candidness: we&rsquo;ll share our failures and successes, talk about the industry&rsquo;s challenges and problems, and reveal the not-so-obvious solutions to&nbsp;complex problems. Humans are at&nbsp;the center of&nbsp;the discussion. While the common belief is&nbsp;that backend is&nbsp;about machines talking to&nbsp;machines, we&nbsp;should remember that real developers stand behind these machines. Today, when many people solve problems they aren&rsquo;t used to&nbsp;and learn to&nbsp;manage risks, it&rsquo;s more important than ever to&nbsp;exchange experiences and support each other. This is&nbsp;what our track is&nbsp;dedicated&nbsp;to.

In&nbsp;the past, we&nbsp;used to&nbsp;think that search result refinement and content personalization were the central applications of&nbsp;ML. But today, ML&nbsp;sees much wider use: machines generate incredible images, blur language barriers by&nbsp;translating videos in&nbsp;real time, and save lives by&nbsp;diagnosing diseases at&nbsp;early stages. We&nbsp;can only wonder what breakthroughs await&nbsp;us in&nbsp;other areas.

When your app has hundreds of&nbsp;thousands or&nbsp;even millions of&nbsp;downloads, it&rsquo;s hard to&nbsp;maintain a&nbsp;connection with the end user. We&nbsp;envision something abstract, but on&nbsp;the other side of&nbsp;the smartphone is&nbsp;a&nbsp;real person with their own characteristics and needs. How do&nbsp;we&nbsp;account for variances in&nbsp;user behavior and make our apps even more personalized? How does modern technology help&nbsp;us create services that are convenient for everyone? We&rsquo;ll discuss this in&nbsp;the mobile development track.

Professional connections have become more valuable, and the community has gained more significance than ever. Within this community, we&nbsp;hold difficult conversations, seek contacts, ask for advice, form rules and standards, and work out base principles.

In&nbsp;2022, humanness has become the ultimate soft skill: it&nbsp;will be&nbsp;our primary focus during this year&rsquo;s YaTalks.

YaTalks shall be&nbsp;the meeting point for engineers, product specialists, technical managers, and individual communities. We&nbsp;invite you to&nbsp;discuss microtrends, ambitious launches, and breakthroughs in&nbsp;four tech stacks. And as&nbsp;part of&nbsp;the &laquo;Lifestyle&raquo; track, we&rsquo;ll share new experiences, insights, methodology, solutions, answers, and questions without answers.

In&nbsp;other words, YaTalks in&nbsp;2022&nbsp;is about the things that help&nbsp;us remain human and keep making the world better and simpler with the help of&nbsp;technology.

The challenges we&nbsp;face today often have nothing to&nbsp;do&nbsp;with technology. They call for a&nbsp;different kind of&nbsp;experience, the kind we&nbsp;accumulate throughout life. We&nbsp;build new work mechanisms while preserving the teams and the relationships within.

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3 December

Morning show

Мы&nbsp;поговорим о&nbsp;технологиях, которые уже изменили нашу жизнь так, что мы&nbsp;перестали их&nbsp;замечать,&nbsp;&mdash; и&nbsp;о&nbsp;том, что нас ждёт завтра.

The future is now

Studying black holes, analyzing data from the world&rsquo;s largest telescopes, modeling exoplanets&nbsp;&mdash; astrophysics since the middle of&nbsp;the twentieth century is&nbsp;impossible to&nbsp;imagine without high technology.Over the last 20 years, IT&nbsp;has played an&nbsp;important role in&nbsp;the discipline&rsquo;s progress. But astrophysicists are pinning even greater hopes on&nbsp;the industry for the next half century.We&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;discussing: <ul><li>How tech helps astrophysics today: why scientific progress goes hand-in-hand with advances in&nbsp;IT</li><li>What&rsquo;s over the horizon: the breakthroughs astrophysicists are waiting for and the role quantum computers have to&nbsp;play</li><li>Which IT&nbsp;professionals are needed today for science: where you can pursue a&nbsp;career if&nbsp;you want something off the beaten track</li></ul>

How IT&nbsp;will drive astrophysics over the next 50 years: big data, modeling, and supercomputers

Since early childhood, most of&nbsp;us have had the notion that in&nbsp;a&nbsp;good career, you only grow vertically, which is&nbsp;only possible by&nbsp;becoming a&nbsp;manager. In&nbsp;their presentation, Andrey Breslav and Aleksandr Lozhechkin will try to&nbsp;convince the audience that there are more ways than one to&nbsp;be&nbsp;successful. The speakers will systematize their experience in&nbsp;companies of&nbsp;different sizes and industries, where they themselves worked, grew, and helped others grow. They&rsquo;ll even share their own experience dealing with emotional burnout and changing their career track. From this presentation, you&rsquo;ll learn:<ul><li>Which is&nbsp;better: a&nbsp;good manager with a&nbsp;bad team or&nbsp;a&nbsp;bad manager with a&nbsp;good team</li> <li>How to&nbsp;turn mistakes into experience: empathy, bounded rationality, and efficiency as&nbsp;key competencies</li> <li>How to&nbsp;be&nbsp;successful for yourself and those around you without taking a&nbsp;management position</li></ul>

From expert to&nbsp;manager and back: surviving pain, burnout, and insight

Yandex understands how important open source is, releasing its own open products and supporting the community. Not so&nbsp;long ago, we&nbsp;held an&nbsp;open CfP and selected seven projects, the authors of&nbsp;which will discuss themselves and their products at&nbsp;YaTalks 2022.<ol>
<li>YDB is&nbsp;an&nbsp;open-source, distributed, and fault-tolerant SQL database that combines high availability and scalability with strict consistency and ACID transactions.</li>
<li>SOLDR is&nbsp;an&nbsp;open EDR system for detecting attacks and responding to&nbsp;cyber incidents.</li>
<li>Ambrosia is&nbsp;an&nbsp;open-source library for A/B tests that lets you quickly and easily handle experiment design, group formation, and result summation using a&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;basic and advanced statistical methods.</li>
<li>Nocc is&nbsp;a&nbsp;distributed C++ compiler. Like distcc, only faster.</li>
<li>Semrel-extra is&nbsp;an&nbsp;effort to&nbsp;break the shackles of&nbsp;<any release tool>.</li>
<li>UnitTestBot is&nbsp;a&nbsp;scientifically verified tool for synthesizing complete test coverage and deep code analysis without false positives.</li>
<li>FBase is&nbsp;a&nbsp;column database in&nbsp;Java used to&nbsp;store time series data.</li></ol>
You can submit any questions you have for the project creators in&nbsp;advance, and we&rsquo;ll ask the most interesting ones live.

Оpen-source talks

Ten years ago, something amazing happened at&nbsp;ECCV: AlexNet, a&nbsp;neural network, soundly defeated all competitors that weren&rsquo;t neural networks in&nbsp;an&nbsp;image recognition challenge. That ushered in&nbsp;the dominance of&nbsp;neural networks. ML&nbsp;was renamed AI, growing from niche tech to&nbsp;hyped beyond belief. But it&rsquo;s been worth the hype. Over the intervening decade, deep learning has, indeed, become deep, with &laquo;unsolvable&raquo; tasks commoditized, interest in&nbsp;ML&nbsp;multiplied many times over, money pouring into the industry, and networks learning how to&nbsp;play games, draw, write lyrics, compose music&hellip; This presentation will: <ul><li>Look back at&nbsp;the most important events in&nbsp;ML&nbsp;over the past ten years</li><li>Recall which articles had the greatest impact on&nbsp;technical development</li><li>Avoid technical details while assessing the significance of&nbsp;everything that has taken place</li></ul>

10 years into the new era of&nbsp;machine learning: neural networks and more

Having grown up&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;small village near Kursk, Denis will talk about how he&nbsp;became a&nbsp;global speaker and entrepreneur. From this presentation, you&rsquo;ll learn:<ul><li>How to&nbsp;overcome challenges</li> <li>How to&nbsp;get your startup off the ground</li> <li>Who investors are and where to&nbsp;find them</li> <li>How to&nbsp;stop being afraid and start doing</li></ul>

Growing and achieving success in&nbsp;tough times

A&nbsp;book isn&rsquo;t only the best gift but also a&nbsp;great way of&nbsp;adapting to&nbsp;a&nbsp;new reality. From this report, you&rsquo;ll learn:<ul><li>How to&nbsp;read when you don&rsquo;t want&nbsp;to, and whether you need to&nbsp;force yourself to&nbsp;do&nbsp;it;</li> <li>Why the demand for historical literature, detectives, and science fiction is&nbsp;growing today;</li> <li>Which books to&nbsp;choose if&nbsp;you want to&nbsp;understand what&rsquo;s happening around you better; or&nbsp;if&nbsp;you prefer the opposite: to&nbsp;hide from reality in&nbsp;imaginary worlds and immersive plots.</li></ul>

Reading strategies in&nbsp;difficult times

Since I&nbsp;took over&nbsp;IT for a&nbsp;large federal bank almost three years ago, our department has grown to&nbsp;almost 1,000&nbsp;people, all of&nbsp;whom are focused on&nbsp;solving complex problems and improving the company every day. A&nbsp;leader&rsquo;s most important job is&nbsp;assembling a&nbsp;team. But what&rsquo;s the best way to&nbsp;do&nbsp;that? While everyone&rsquo;s out there talking about profiling, MBTI, DISC, and everything else, what about trusting your intuition? And why do&nbsp;teams have to&nbsp;die and be&nbsp;reborn like the phoenix? Putting the team together is&nbsp;just half the battle. What about working together through crises, the pandemic, 2022? What are some life hacks that can make turnover in&nbsp;2022 lower than it&nbsp;was in&nbsp;2021? This is&nbsp;information every team needs, not just upper management. From this presentation, you&rsquo;ll learn:<ul><li>Tactics and strategies for team formation and retention</li> <li>The impact leaders have on&nbsp;team health</li> <li>What the team lifecycle has in&nbsp;common with superhero arcs</li> <li>How to&nbsp;make it&nbsp;through crises in&nbsp;2022 and what to&nbsp;do&nbsp;when people are on&nbsp;edge, leaving, falling behind, or&nbsp;just plain lost.</li></ul>

The hero&rsquo;s path: building and developing teams in&nbsp;2022

They sometimes say&nbsp;IT specialists are just grown-up kids. But how does life change for those &laquo;kids&raquo; when they have their own? This presentation will look at&nbsp;the most common myths and what it&rsquo;s like to&nbsp;combine family and career. From this presentation, you&rsquo;ll learn:<ul><li>Whether children get in&nbsp;the way of&nbsp;professional growth and if&nbsp;it&rsquo;s true that motherhood is&nbsp;the final nail in&nbsp;the coffin of&nbsp;personal development</li> <li>How children help develop soft skills and make products more user-friendly</li> <li>Whether it&rsquo;s possible to&nbsp;manage a&nbsp;family like a&nbsp;mini corporation and build agile parenting processes</li></ul>

Agile parenting: how to&nbsp;be&nbsp;an&nbsp;effective&nbsp;IT professional with macaroni in&nbsp;your hair

Society looks down on&nbsp;adults who play games of&nbsp;any kind: computer, tabletop, active games, or&nbsp;others. In&nbsp;the best-case scenario, it&rsquo;s seen as&nbsp;a&nbsp;guilty pleasure; worst-case scenario, you&rsquo;re declared a&nbsp;gaming addict and a&nbsp;slacker. But this is&nbsp;wrong! Let&rsquo;s talk about the positive effects of&nbsp;games in&nbsp;general and roleplaying games in&nbsp;particular. From this report, you&rsquo;ll:<ul><li>learn that Anastasia has played games her entire life and gained a&nbsp;lot from them;</li> <li>find out why she organizes Dungeons and Dragons campaigns at&nbsp;work as&nbsp;a&nbsp;regular teambuilding activity;</li> <li>discover what roleplaying games can do&nbsp;for you as&nbsp;a&nbsp;person.</li></ul>

People and games

Speed-solving algorithms

How do&nbsp;you distinguish one food delivery package from another if&nbsp;your vision is&nbsp;impaired? The Search app&rsquo;s Smart Camera is&nbsp;the perfect way to&nbsp;solve this! It&rsquo;ll recognize and tell you not just the name of&nbsp;the product but also the expiry date, nutrition facts, and other important information. In&nbsp;this report, we&rsquo;ll tell you how the Smart Camera works and what tasks it&nbsp;helps to&nbsp;solve, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;discuss the peculiarities of&nbsp;using the Camera as&nbsp;a&nbsp;blind person and how it&nbsp;adapts to&nbsp;such scenarios. On&nbsp;top of&nbsp;that, we&rsquo;ll talk about the technologies that allow the Smart Camera to&nbsp;detect and track objects or&nbsp;text from a&nbsp;video feed, why it&nbsp;uses a&nbsp;proprietary object tracker, and why we&nbsp;can&rsquo;t use the readily available ARkit/ARCore. Furthermore, we&rsquo;ll discuss how neural networks know when the text in&nbsp;the image is&nbsp;cropped and what changes we&nbsp;had to&nbsp;make in&nbsp;the client-side business logic to&nbsp;implement the text recognition scenario for blind users.

Smart Camera, or&nbsp;how to&nbsp;find out what you have for lunch if&nbsp;you&rsquo;re blind

Everybody has seen pictures like &laquo;N&nbsp;unit tests, 0 integration tests&raquo;, and almost everyone understands just how important testing is: from unit to&nbsp;e2e.But after any release, you still get users running to&nbsp;tell you that nothing works. Why? Large applications have a&nbsp;litany of&nbsp;external factors that can&rsquo;t be&nbsp;tested: from poor internet connections to&nbsp;a&nbsp;suddenly expired certificate on&nbsp;one of&nbsp;a&nbsp;user&rsquo;s dozens of&nbsp;servers.This is&nbsp;where analytics comes in, collecting data from real users.In&nbsp;this presentation, we&nbsp;will discuss: <ul><li>The problems RTM helps solve</li><li>Existing RTM solutions and their pros and cons</li><li>Our RTM architecture (how reinventing the wheel worked out for us), if&nbsp;it&rsquo;s expensive, and who&rsquo;s going to&nbsp;support it&nbsp;all</li><li>Case studies of&nbsp;both successes and failures</li></ul>

How we&nbsp;made mobile service-quality telemetry using Firebase, BigQuery, and Grafana

In&nbsp;this report, we&rsquo;ll tell you about the specific challenges we&nbsp;faced when localizing Yandex Eats for iOS. Tune in&nbsp;to&nbsp;find out:<ul><li>How we&nbsp;hardcoded the Russian language, how you can add a&nbsp;language selection feature within the app, and how it&nbsp;works;</li> <li>What happened after iOS had interpreted our hardcode. Specifically, why the users had to&nbsp;change the app&rsquo;s language to&nbsp;Armenian after every update and why it&nbsp;worked that way;</li> <li>How and when iOS decides which language it&nbsp;should launch the app in&nbsp;and why it&nbsp;works that way;</li> <li>Why one alert can contain text in&nbsp;three different languages and why it&rsquo;s totally normal;</li> <li>How the iOS language selection system works.</li></ul>

How we&nbsp;localized Yandex Eats

У&nbsp;нас в&nbsp;кармане практически весь день находится устройство, которое анализирует состояние тела и&nbsp;другие физические аспекты жизни. Немного разберёмся, какие метрики нашего тела считывают гаджеты и&nbsp;как они это делают с&nbsp;точки зрения hardware. Поговорим о&nbsp;том, как разработчик на&nbsp;iOS может это использовать. Поглядим на&nbsp;весь спектр подходящих библиотек: CareKit, ResearchKit, HealthKit и&nbsp;Activity. Погрузимся в&nbsp;примеры и&nbsp;рассмотрим интересные особенности, чтобы заставить это всё работать.

How iOS analyzes our health: HealthKit, ResearchKit, CareKit, Activity and which sensors it uses

Our jobs often include building great solutions other teams and companies could also benefit from. Of&nbsp;course, the suggestion is&nbsp;frequently made to&nbsp;share them with the entire industry by&nbsp;posting them in&nbsp;open source (and patting ourselves on&nbsp;the back at&nbsp;the same time). But are there any other reasons for or&nbsp;benefits of&nbsp;heading in&nbsp;that direction? What are the challenges that arise along the way? We&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;discussing these and many other issues.

Should mobile development make the shift to open source

Практически в&nbsp;каждом проекте Яндекса используется машинное обучение. Мы&nbsp;прошли долгий и&nbsp;сложный путь, чтобы настроить&nbsp;ML и&nbsp;избежать дублирования, когда разные команды решают одни и&nbsp;те&nbsp;же задачи. В&nbsp;докладе расскажем о&nbsp;нашей эволюции и&nbsp;текущем подходе к&nbsp;разработке проектов. Доклад будет интересен в&nbsp;первую очередь тимлидам и&nbsp;руководителям отделов&nbsp;ML, а&nbsp;также инженерам, которым интересно узнать, &laquo;а&nbsp;как у&nbsp;других&raquo;. Из&nbsp;доклада вы&nbsp;узнаете:<ul><li>как развивался ML&nbsp;в Яндексе;</li> <li>как взаимодействуют R&amp;D и&nbsp;бизнес;</li> <li>как нам помогает отдел Yandex Research.</li></ul>

ML at Yandex: finding the balance between product and research

Каждый день сотни тысяч пользователей переводят видео в&nbsp;Яндекс Браузере. Восторженные отзывы мотивируют нас продолжать растить качество и&nbsp;расширять функционал перевода видео. Наша глобальная цель&nbsp;&mdash; разработать технологию автоматической локализации видеоконтента, сопоставимую по&nbsp;качеству и&nbsp;функциональности с&nbsp;профессиональной студией озвучки. Мы&nbsp;называем эту технологию нейродубляжом. Из&nbsp;доклада вы&nbsp;узнаете:<ul><li>что из&nbsp;себя представляет алгоритм перевода видео;</li> <li>как контекст и&nbsp;связность компонентов алгоритма приближают нас к&nbsp;нашей цели и&nbsp;почему мы&nbsp;пока не&nbsp;используем end-to-end подходы;</li> <li>перевод трансляций&nbsp;&mdash; trade-off между качеством и&nbsp;задержкой и&nbsp;что с&nbsp;этим делать;</li> <li>над какими перспективными направлениями исследований сейчас работает команда.</li></ul>

Neural dubbing: tearing down language barriers in video

These days, it&rsquo;s hard to&nbsp;imagine life without online retail: we&nbsp;pick out the items we&nbsp;want or&nbsp;order food and wait for the courier to&nbsp;show up. What does machine learning have to&nbsp;do&nbsp;with that? Does it&nbsp;have a&nbsp;strong impact on&nbsp;business performance? 
In&nbsp;this discussion, we&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;talking through the heavy lifting ML&nbsp;does in&nbsp;e-commerce, why the problem is&nbsp;bigger than simple rules and heuristics, how people can help drive a&nbsp;better tomorrow, and where ML&nbsp;is&nbsp;going in&nbsp;online-to-offline (O2O marketing).

ML in ecom: who needs it?

We&nbsp;hear so&nbsp;much about how ML&nbsp;boosts profits, helps people, or&nbsp;beat someone at&nbsp;some game or&nbsp;other. But what about a&nbsp;neural network built for monitoring an&nbsp;ecosystem?
The key to&nbsp;Lake Baikal staying clean is&nbsp;the zooplankton living in&nbsp;it. For the past 77 years, scientists have been taking water samples to&nbsp;monitor the little creatures. It&rsquo;s difficult, highly skilled work. But can modern tech help science and scientists with that particular job?
From this presentation, you&rsquo;ll learn: 
<ul><li>Which methods are used to&nbsp;solve problems where there is&nbsp;an&nbsp;unlimited set of&nbsp;classes</li><li>How to&nbsp;digitize a&nbsp;process created back before PCs were ever a&nbsp;thing</li><li>How to&nbsp;facilitate work for people with unique skills</li></ul>

Analyzing water samples with neural networks: an&nbsp;open class set, a&nbsp;data shift, and microorganisms

Our feeds are packed with content generated by&nbsp;neural networks. These days, they&rsquo;re generating paintings and photographs that are almost indistinguishable from human work, creating new characters and drawing familiar things in&nbsp;a&nbsp;completely new context. But how does that all work? What new opportunities should we&nbsp;expect to&nbsp;see unveiled in&nbsp;the near future? How will life change for designers and illustrators? We&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;discussing those issues and many more.

Using neural networks to&nbsp;generate images: how neural networks work and whether they&rsquo;ll revolutionize the world of&nbsp;content creation

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4 December

The recipe for the perfect career doesn&rsquo;t exist. Or&nbsp;does it?Kira Kuzmenko and Natalia Ponomareva, both IT&nbsp;recruitment experts, and Gennady Evstratov, who has been managing teams at&nbsp;Yandex for many years, will cook your career up&nbsp;into a&nbsp;tasty little breakfast. We&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;discussing: <ul><li>How best to&nbsp;draw up&nbsp;your resume and pass interviews</li><li>Which arguments work on&nbsp;your manager and which don&rsquo;t</li><li>Why some employees shoot up&nbsp;the career ladder while others don&rsquo;t</li></ul>

IT&nbsp;cuisine: the recipe for you, your managers, and your career

The world is&nbsp;changing, and so&nbsp;are internet standards. In&nbsp;addition to&nbsp;corporations, digital ecosystems are influenced by&nbsp;states, laws, and technological revolutions. But not everyone has a&nbsp;place in&nbsp;that future.
Let&rsquo;s take a&nbsp;step back and consider how this topic looks to&nbsp;someone who&rsquo;s just starting to&nbsp;figure it&nbsp;out now. From this presentation, you&rsquo;ll learn: 
<ul><li>The internet we&rsquo;re working to&nbsp;build and the projects that are going to&nbsp;make the world a&nbsp;better place</li><li>The difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, the difference between Web 3.0 and the web itself, and why this is&nbsp;important for you to&nbsp;know</li><li>Most importantly, the internet we&nbsp;need to&nbsp;have</li></ul>

Web 3.0: a look into the future

Making predictions in&nbsp;2022 couldn&rsquo;t be&nbsp;more of&nbsp;a&nbsp;thankless practice. But we&rsquo;re still going to&nbsp;try.While not professional visionaries, industry experts and practitioners will look at&nbsp;what they think are the most promising technologies, not to&nbsp;mention the macro and micro tech trends that appear set to&nbsp;change our lives in&nbsp;the near future. They could even change the world in&nbsp;the long run.We&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;discussing: <ul><li>Web 3.0: what is&nbsp;it&nbsp;and when we&rsquo;re going to&nbsp;realize that the next era of&nbsp;the internet is&nbsp;upon us</li><li>The big tech world&rsquo;s main pain points, questions, and answers</li><li>What developers will come up&nbsp;with tomorrow, and whether those new technologies will replace the developers themselves</li></ul>

The IT&nbsp;industry: what&rsquo;s coming down the pipe? Tomorrow&rsquo;s tech and key breakthrough points

What does the first section of&nbsp;developer interviews at&nbsp;Yandex look like? How should you talk with the hiring manager? How should you answer when someone asks where you see yourself in&nbsp;five years? Why do&nbsp;they even ask that question at&nbsp;decent companies?All those answers and more will be&nbsp;revealed at&nbsp;YaTalks. Kira Kuzmenko, CEO of&nbsp;NEWHR Global, a&nbsp;hiring manager, and the head of&nbsp;Yandex&rsquo;s recruitment department, will conduct a&nbsp;live interview with a&nbsp;real candidate looking for a&nbsp;job as&nbsp;a&nbsp;backend developer.Come learn about professional life hacks, hear how to&nbsp;pass interviews, and cheer on&nbsp;the candidate. If&nbsp;it&nbsp;goes well, the session will count as&nbsp;the first stage of&nbsp;the candidate&rsquo;s Yandex interview process.

A&nbsp;real candidate: a&nbsp;live Yandex interview

It&nbsp;is&nbsp;generally believed that company culture is&nbsp;reserved for&nbsp;HR, marketers, and communications specialists, and is&nbsp;a&nbsp;very foreign concept to&nbsp;engineers. In&nbsp;reality, culture affects all processes: it&nbsp;facilitates the transfer of&nbsp;knowledge and experience, helps pick the right team, and often assists in&nbsp;understanding the professional environment, your colleagues, and even one&rsquo;s self. From this report, you&rsquo;ll learn:<ul><li>what company culture&nbsp;is, how we&nbsp;understand&nbsp;it, and how we&nbsp;experience its influence;</li> <li>why developers, team leads, and CTOs should care about company culture;</li> <li>how culture &laquo;rules&raquo; teams and affects the lives of&nbsp;certain employees.</li></ul>

Company culture in the eyes of an engineer: what unites us

What is&nbsp;the cultural code of&nbsp;an&nbsp;IT&nbsp;company? What&rsquo;s the difference in&nbsp;culture between IT&nbsp;giants and startups, and how does that affect the business and the people working there? YaTalks will host engineers from different IT&nbsp;companies as&nbsp;they reflect on&nbsp;how culture is&nbsp;built, developed, and transmitted. We&rsquo;ll pay special attention to&nbsp;how that&rsquo;s happening in&nbsp;the era of&nbsp;distributed teams and hybrid offices.

Distance DNA: engineering culture in&nbsp;the era of&nbsp;remote work

Researchers in&nbsp;sciences such as&nbsp;sociology or&nbsp;medicine face a&nbsp;multitude of&nbsp;problems. From the practical impossibility of&nbsp;blind testing in&nbsp;certain situations resulting in&nbsp;voluptuous but unrepresentative sampling, to&nbsp;the difficulties of&nbsp;accounting for all the potential factors that may impact outcomes and the effect of&nbsp;publication bias on&nbsp;the meta-analysis results. Many of&nbsp;these problems became especially prominent during the COVID-19&nbsp;era, which saw numerous, often contradicting, scientific publications analyzing the virus&rsquo; behavior or&nbsp;vaccine efficacy. In&nbsp;this report, we&rsquo;ll:<ul><li>look at&nbsp;the reasons behind the reproducibility crisis in&nbsp;social sciences;</li> <li>explore what criteria help the authors of&nbsp;systematic reviews discern credible academic works from those that should be&nbsp;ignored;</li> <li>discuss how a&nbsp;regular&nbsp;IT specialist can make a&nbsp;change and support science.</li></ul>

What`s wrong with verification in social sciences, and how IT can improve it

Traditionally, creative and technical teams are relegated to&nbsp;parallel worlds, and the inhabitants could not resemble each other less. But is&nbsp;that really the case?At&nbsp;YaTalks, Daria Zolotukhina, Yandex HRD and the author of&nbsp;creative leadership courses, and Elena Bubnova, CPO of&nbsp;Yandex Search with years of&nbsp;experience managing technical teams under her belt, will discuss the differences between working with creative people and engineers. Or&nbsp;are there actually any differences?Tune in&nbsp;to&nbsp;discuss: <ul><li>Why the dividing line between tech and the humanities is&nbsp;just a&nbsp;stereotype</li><li>How the team influences the leadership style</li><li>How to&nbsp;evaluate ideas and foster leaders</li></ul>

Creative vs technical teams: create, manage, motivate

Team leads are commonplace in&nbsp;organizational structures, which can serve as&nbsp;both saviors for upper management and troublemakers for teams and leads alike. Is&nbsp;it&nbsp;possible to&nbsp;structure work effectively without them? How do&nbsp;you teach teams to&nbsp;organize themselves? When do&nbsp;you absolutely need team leads, and what do&nbsp;you do&nbsp;if&nbsp;you&rsquo;ve already gotten rid of&nbsp;them? In&nbsp;the grand tradition of&nbsp;amicable YaTalks debates, the speakers will discuss their differing thoughts and views on&nbsp;those questions. The winner will be&nbsp;determined by&nbsp;the audience.

Are team leads a&nbsp;thing of&nbsp;the past? Together with the &laquo;Team Lead Struggles&raquo; community

We&nbsp;always fear crises and barely know how to&nbsp;handle them. But if&nbsp;we&nbsp;look back, crises have always been part of&nbsp;our lives. Each of&nbsp;us has found a&nbsp;way to&nbsp;overcome hardships. When leading teams, crisis management skills define both the business&rsquo;s sustainability and the employees&rsquo; well-being, impacting their future careers and professional accomplishments. It&rsquo;s the manager&rsquo;s responsibility to&nbsp;train the team to&nbsp;survive and keep moving forward. In&nbsp;this report, we&rsquo;ll:<ul><li>dissect the mechanics of&nbsp;crisis perception and reaction;</li> <li>explore the methods that can help recover as&nbsp;quickly as&nbsp;possible: &laquo;switch off the brain and start working&raquo;;</li> <li>discuss what a&nbsp;manager needs to&nbsp;realize about themself to&nbsp;have projects and people to&nbsp;manage.</li></ul>

That which doesn&rsquo;t kill you makes you a&nbsp;team

We&rsquo;re going to&nbsp;connect with people from different companies to&nbsp;dig into how blind testers review user experiences for digital accessibility. The conversation will cover: <ul><li>Whether we&nbsp;can say &laquo;how blind testers see&raquo;</li><li>Whether you&rsquo;re better off adapting the main interface or&nbsp;creating an&nbsp;alternative one, for example, with a&nbsp;voice assistant</li><li>How blind users grasp the logic of&nbsp;the interface when even seeing people sometimes have a&nbsp;hard time</li><li>Why you need blind testers and whether it&rsquo;s possible to&nbsp;adapt services without them</li><li>Whether it&rsquo;s harder to&nbsp;start or&nbsp;keep going when it&nbsp;comes to&nbsp;accessibility</li></ul>

Digital accessibility from blind testers' point of view

While everyone loves talking about their successes, only the bravest have the guts to&nbsp;open up&nbsp;about their failures. Working with Epic Growth, we&nbsp;put together a&nbsp;session where top experts from Yandex, Ozon, Avito, and ivi will share the important and costly lessons they&rsquo;ve had to&nbsp;learn.
Torpedoing company metrics, building a&nbsp;product feature nobody needs, accidentally losing a&nbsp;data center&hellip;want to&nbsp;hear what happened next? Come to&nbsp;the final YaTalks 2022 slot and find out!
Irina Chesnokova, the host of&nbsp;Bar in&nbsp;the Big City, will help the experts talk about how to&nbsp;turn lemons into lemonade.

Getting off our high horse: how we learned from our mistakes

Conference close

We&rsquo;re going to&nbsp;talk with experts from Bravado, Yandex, and Tinkoff about differences in&nbsp;decision-making. Is&nbsp;logic and technical grounding or&nbsp;user-friendliness and accepting people, psychological baggage and all, more important?

With your heart or&nbsp;your head

The developer tools in&nbsp;browsers can be&nbsp;incredibly helpful, but some aren&rsquo;t as&nbsp;accessible from the interface as&nbsp;others. There are even some that so&nbsp;few people talk about, they&rsquo;re hardly ever used. We&rsquo;ll try to&nbsp;find these &laquo;little helpers&raquo; to&nbsp;take some of&nbsp;the routine work off our shoulders by&nbsp;getting machines more involved.

Chrome DevTools: hidden gems

Description: Marketplace customers love their beautiful sites and apps: picture carousels, smooth animations, vivid and pleasant colors. But what about the people who make sure orders arrive on&nbsp;time? In&nbsp;this presentation, we&rsquo;ll talk about Yandex Market logistics, what the courier interface looks like, the challenges we&nbsp;face, and how people influence the product they use.

Behind the Yandex Market scenes

Writing working code is&nbsp;only half the battle. The other half is&nbsp;delivering the code to&nbsp;production and running traffic on&nbsp;it. Over the years, we&rsquo;ve seen huge advances made in&nbsp;deployment: from hardware servers to&nbsp;a&nbsp;whole range of&nbsp;virtual machines, including serverless and PaaS (Platform as&nbsp;a&nbsp;Service). It&nbsp;feels like there are new solutions being released every day, so&nbsp;let&rsquo;s share what we&nbsp;have before it&nbsp;goes obsolete.This presentation will teach you: <ul><li>How and where you can run server-side JavaScript on&nbsp;the web now</li><li>How to&nbsp;add a&nbsp;database to&nbsp;server JavaScript and withstand the load</li></ul>

Node.js adventures in&nbsp;production

Some leading lights from the frontend world will answer questions about web statistics in&nbsp;2022 in&nbsp;real time and discuss what they come up&nbsp;with.

The web in&nbsp;2022: What has changed?

We&rsquo;ve looked at&nbsp;our monorepository and how we&nbsp;build the development process around it&nbsp;on&nbsp;a&nbsp;few occasions already. This time, we&rsquo;ll highlight a&nbsp;non-standard case: what the monorepository, with all its strong code connectivity and viral sprawl of&nbsp;dependencies, does to&nbsp;help when you try to&nbsp;cut something out of&nbsp;it.This year will see us&nbsp;share two major case studies. First, there will be&nbsp;the open-source YDB (ydb.tech), which has been a&nbsp;monorepository its entire life, and it&nbsp;will be&nbsp;followed by&nbsp;how Zen and News grew out of&nbsp;Search to&nbsp;become a&nbsp;separate entity.

The splendor and poverty of&nbsp;large monorepositories

This presentation will run through our favorite (and sometimes less than obvious) ways developers can ruin their own lives and those of&nbsp;their colleagues, all of&nbsp;which will most likely see continued usage into 2023. It&nbsp;is&nbsp;based on&nbsp;our experience, our observations, and helpful case studies contributed by&nbsp;other developers.

Bad advice for developers

What should you do&nbsp;with your database when you&rsquo;re facing exponential growth in&nbsp;traffic?
Our project went from 300 RPS to&nbsp;2000 RPS. In&nbsp;this presentation, we&rsquo;ll share what has let us&nbsp;keep working downtime-free.
There are standard optimization methods: indexes, caching, and increasing server power. But let&rsquo;s talk about less-popular ways to&nbsp;modify database structure: denormalization, precalculation, and partitioning. We&rsquo;ll see where they can help as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;where they might be&nbsp;counterproductive.
While we&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;using MySQL as&nbsp;an&nbsp;example, the approaches we&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;talking about are also applicable to&nbsp;other relational databases.

Structural optimization of relational databases

Long before Tesla, the first electric car appeared in&nbsp;1841, a&nbsp;century and a&nbsp;half ago. In&nbsp;1899, an&nbsp;electric car set a&nbsp;record of&nbsp;105 kilometers per hour and drove 130 kilometers on&nbsp;a&nbsp;single charge. But it&nbsp;was internal combustion engines that ruled for the next hundred years. Elon Musk has just been going back to&nbsp;long-forgotten technology.The same thing has happened with databases: object-oriented databases appeared in&nbsp;the 1980s, though it&nbsp;took the introduction of&nbsp;NoSQL for them to&nbsp;gain popularity. Why did it&nbsp;happen that way? What&rsquo;s the internal logic behind how databases, storage engines, and query languages are developed?We&rsquo;re going to&nbsp;talk about: <ul><li>How database developers react to&nbsp;the needs of&nbsp;the IT&nbsp;community</li><li>Why databases have evolved the way they have</li><li>What we&nbsp;can expect in&nbsp;the future as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;the promising developments already underway</li><li>How we&nbsp;as&nbsp;developers will be&nbsp;able to&nbsp;leverage those developments</li></ul>Those questions will be&nbsp;answered by&nbsp;leaders of&nbsp;the HighLoad++ community, speakers, and members of&nbsp;the program committee.

What the developer community should be&nbsp;expecting from database creators

Automating user scenarios for dev and ops teams

Pyotr Popov

CEO of&nbsp;Yandex&nbsp;Technologies. His team is&nbsp;responsible for: machine learning technologies from scientific research to&nbsp;service applications; reliability and performance of&nbsp;base search and ad&nbsp;tech; keeping the uptime of&nbsp;Yandex at&nbsp;large at&nbsp;99.99%. One of&nbsp;the tasks he&rsquo;s currently working on&nbsp;is&nbsp;implementing data-heavy neural networks and high-performance GPUs to&nbsp;improve the quality of&nbsp;services. Pyotr has been part of&nbsp;Yandex since 2009 and worked his way up&nbsp;from developer to&nbsp;CEO. He&nbsp;studied at&nbsp;Moscow State University&rsquo;s Department of&nbsp;Mechanics and Mathematics and, in&nbsp;2003, defended his candidate dissertation on&nbsp;algebraic topology. In&nbsp;his leisure time, he&nbsp;plays ping-pong and follows esports.

Having worked at&nbsp;Yandex since 2020, she heads the Repository Ecosystem Service and intranet search and leads several shared projects for the Development Technologies Department. Hosts DevTools Party meetups and Infrastructure Subbotniks. She&rsquo;s a&nbsp;significant proponent of&nbsp;soft skill development in&nbsp;IT and a&nbsp;member of&nbsp;the Podlodka Soft Skills Crew and the Yet Another Level program committee. Anastasia runs a&nbsp;Telegram channel for beginner managers. Apart from project activities, she organizes exciting teambuilding events for her teams and regularly hosts Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.

Aleksey Shagrayev

Candidate of&nbsp;Technical Sciences, Associate Professor at&nbsp;Moscow Institute of&nbsp;Physics and Technology, and the former Head of&nbsp;Instant and Interactive Search Responses Development. He&nbsp;founded Yandex Tutor, spoke at&nbsp;YaTalks, organized Team Leader Meetups, helped launch Yandex Andromeda, and built clusterization for Yandex News. Aleksey teaches at&nbsp;Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow Institute of&nbsp;Physics and Technology, and Higher School of&nbsp;Economics. In&nbsp;2020-2021, he&nbsp;worked at&nbsp;Google Switzerland, but he&rsquo;s now nurturing his own startup.

Aleksey Gusakov

He&nbsp;integrated the first neural network into Yandex Search and fixed the search in&nbsp;Yandex Maps. Nowadays, he&rsquo;s tasked with machine learning and maintaining the quality of&nbsp;many Yandex products. If&nbsp;you&rsquo;re having trouble looking something up&nbsp;on&nbsp;the web or&nbsp;Alice is&nbsp;a&nbsp;bit slower than usual, let Lyosha know :) He&nbsp;likes powerlifting and can bench press 180&nbsp;kg.

Nikita Sidorov

During his five years at&nbsp;Yandex, Nikita has studied at&nbsp;The Yandex School of&nbsp;Data Analysis and delivered (and keeps delivering) lectures at&nbsp;the Frontend Development School. At&nbsp;a&nbsp;Yandex programming cup, he&nbsp;once made people write tree-shaking in&nbsp;30&nbsp;minutes. Nikita&rsquo;s JS, TS, Python, C++, and Java code runs in&nbsp;the Yandex production.

Vladimir Grinenko

Leads the Ecosystem Frontend Department at&nbsp;Yandex. He&rsquo;s responsible for the Yandex ID&nbsp;personal account and the shared components of&nbsp;Lego and BEM. Additionally, the department develops payment forms and Captcha interfaces. The team is&nbsp;distributed across Moscow, Innopolis, and Simferopol.

Tanya Denisyuk

Community manager at&nbsp;Yandex DevRel. Loves the frontend community and HolyJS dearly; took care of&nbsp;speakers at&nbsp;JUG Ru&nbsp;Group. Tanya is&nbsp;a&nbsp;cat mom, and one of&nbsp;her cats is&nbsp;named Evgeniy.

Vitaliy Kharisov

He&nbsp;joined Yandex in&nbsp;2006&nbsp;as an&nbsp;HTML layout designer and worked his way from developer to&nbsp;group and department lead, then back to&nbsp;developer. Vitaliy is&nbsp;the mind behind the layouts of&nbsp;many Yandex services. He&nbsp;founded the public Lego library and helped develop and spread BEM inside and outside Yandex.

Alyona Batitskaya

She&rsquo;s been a&nbsp;frontend freelancer for eight years. Alyona teaches online courses for developers, regularly speaks at&nbsp;conferences and meetups, and writes and translates articles, including for Google&rsquo;s official Russian blog.

Aleksey Popkov

The Frontend Team Lead at&nbsp;Toloka, Aleksey teaches people frontend: both en&nbsp;masse through Yandex Practicum and face-to-face in&nbsp;Solvery.

Andrey Breslav

One of&nbsp;the creators of&nbsp;the Kotlin programming language. For many years, he&nbsp;taught programming to&nbsp;students in&nbsp;schools and universities. He&rsquo;s done a&nbsp;little bit of&nbsp;Computer Science. Andrey helps team leads who face burnout and organizes masterminds and other formats that help thinking people reveal their potential. He&nbsp;shares his personal experiences with burnout and treating his depression with those who might find it&nbsp;helpful. Recommends you read these books:<ul><li>&laquo;Daniel Stein, Interpreter&raquo; by&nbsp;Lyudmila Ulitskaya</li> <li>&laquo;Zen and the Art of&nbsp;Motorcycle Maintenance&raquo; by&nbsp;Robert M. Pirsig </li> <li>&laquo;Radical Candor&raquo; by&nbsp;Kim Scott</li></ul>

Petr Ermakov

In&nbsp;his ten years of&nbsp;data science expertise, Petr has worked at&nbsp;hh.ru, MailRu, and lamoda. Right now, he&rsquo;s developing the Yandex machine learning brand and helping advance the ODS.ai community. He&nbsp;has a&nbsp;great interest in&nbsp;smart home technology and is&nbsp;building a&nbsp;smart greenhouse. In&nbsp;his spare time, Petr does trail running.

Yevgeniy Katella

He’s&nbsp;been developing for Android since 2015. Yevgeniy joined Yandex in&nbsp;2017 and presently leads mobile development at&nbsp;Yandex Eats. Previously, he&nbsp;handled similar tasks at&nbsp;Yandex Transport. He&nbsp;hosts the Podlodka podcasts and organizes Podlodka Crew conferences in&nbsp;his free time.
Recommends these books: 
<ul><li>&laquo;The Goal&raquo; by&nbsp;Eliyahu M. Goldratt</li><li>&laquo;Thinking, Fast and Slow&raquo; by&nbsp;Daniel Kahneman</li><li>&laquo;Lord of&nbsp;the Flies&raquo; by&nbsp;William Golding</li></ul>

Gennadiy Yevstratov

Leads the development of&nbsp;Yandex Pro and promotes Flutter within and beyond the company. Before coming to&nbsp;Yandex, he&rsquo;d led iOS development at&nbsp;Yula, worked with his own outsourcing team, and wrote backend in&nbsp;Java.

Ilya Tsarev

He&nbsp;got into iOS development and started his startup career while studying in&nbsp;institute. He&nbsp;built his own PIN code storing app, PIN Master (5 stars on&nbsp;the AppStore; thousands of&nbsp;active users to&nbsp;this day). He&nbsp;also partook in&nbsp;developing a&nbsp;Connected Car platform at&nbsp;BrightBox. 
Later, he&nbsp;worked at&nbsp;Alfa Bank for four years and went from a&nbsp;developer to&nbsp;head of&nbsp;mobile development in&nbsp;a&nbsp;team of&nbsp;50+ people. He&nbsp;upscaled the team (the iOS dev unit went from 2 to&nbsp;30 people), built a&nbsp;strong HR&nbsp;brand, and adapted processes to&nbsp;a&nbsp;larger team. 
In&nbsp;2019, Ilya joined Yandex Go&nbsp;(known as&nbsp;Yandex Taxi at&nbsp;that time) and, in&nbsp;just two years, managed to&nbsp;triple the development team’s&nbsp;size. Under his leadership, fresh updates come out all the time&nbsp;&mdash; despite the colossal pace of&nbsp;change in&nbsp;projects.

Alexander Krainov

10 years into the new era of machine learning: neural networks and more