Yuri Niyazov

Yuri Niyazov is currently the Vice President of Engineering at Academia.edu, where he has worked for nearly 10 years.23 He joined the company in 2013 as a Software Engineer and has since held various roles, including Full-Stack Product Engineer, SRE, SRE Team Lead, Director of Infrastructure Engineering, and Senior Director of Engineering.23

Career Highlights

• Current Position: Vice President of Engineering at Academia.edu (since August 2021)2
• Previous Roles at Academia.edu:
  • Senior Director of Engineering (March 2021 - August 2021)
  • Director of Infrastructure Engineering (June 2018 - March 2021)
  • Lead Site Reliability Engineer (February 2016 - June 2018)
  • Software Engineer/Lead Researcher (October 2013 - February 2016)2

Achievements

• Reduced monthly cloud infrastructure costs by $350K across two quarters2
• Led a team of 6 engineers to implement cost-cutting measures2
• Conducted research on the impact of Academia.edu's products on users' academic careers, resulting in a peer-reviewed paper published in PLOS2

Background

Yuri has over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, including:

• Independent software vendor in the late 1990s
• Worked at Goldman Sachs in the early-mid 2000s
• Co-founded a startup that was accepted into Y Combinator in 2008 (though they didn't attend)3

Education

• MS in Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation (1984-1992)1

Yuri is also a mentor on MentorCruise, offering guidance in engineering management.3