Vladimir Ofitserov

About Vladimir Ofitserov

Search technology expert responsible for design, implementation and deployment of major large scale subsystems of Yahoo, Inktomi and Yandex search. My expertize include run-time high availability retrieval, statistical ranking and machine learning applications and algorithms, content discovery and acquisition (crawling), feature extraction, indexing, results presentation and large scale graph algorithms and distributed computations.Specialties: Internet search relevance, data analysis and modeling, large scale distributed algorithms and applications.

Experience

1. Senior Staff Software Engineer

   Google

   Mar 2014 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   Led social media integration at Google Search, driving major partnerships and engineering efforts across Twitter, Reddit, and emerging platforms (Threads, TikTok, Instagram). Patent US12••••22B2.Created real-time social media search index at Google from scratch, powering high-impact UGC integrations at Google like Breaking News, Sports, Local, in Search and Maps delivering quantifiable improvements in user engagement and user growth. Patent WO20••••••73A1.Oversaw end-to-end development: ranking algorithms, content ingestion, quality models, indexing, UX, policy compliance across teams including Search Core, RMI, T&S, Legal, and Partnerships.

Education

• Bauman Moscow State Technical University

  MS, IU4

  1989 — 1995

• Yonsei University

  Korean Language

Skills

• Algorithms
• Javascript
• Cvs
• Search Engine Technology
• C++
• Analysis
• Perl
• Software Development
• Python
• Integration
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Machine Learning
• Open Source
• Oop
• Search Engines
• Hadoop
• Search
• Object Oriented Design
• Rest
• Java
• Information Extraction
• Linux
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Architecture
• Information Retrieval
• Unix
• Big Data
• Data Analysis
• Apache
• Mapreduce
• Software Design