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Michael Yudanin
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software
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Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience who still codes daily, currently directing AI-driven knowledge management systems at eGain. He stands out for combining large-scale people leadership with deep technical ownership of LLM/NLI pipelines and for a track record of turning complex operational problems into high-impact systems, including a manufacturing platform that boosted throughput 4x and expanded across 11 plants.
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Key Strengths
- Hands-on engineering director combining architecture, coding, and people leadership
- Deep expertise in AI/NLP pipelines using LLMs, clustering, and NLI models
- Built scalable text-analysis systems handling thousands of documents and billions of tokens
- Strong AWS systems design judgment across Lambda, Fargate, async processing, and S3
- Led organizations from 2 to 45 people, including managing managers
- Extensive hiring experience across engineers, QA, managers, and directors
- Effective mentor with practical coaching frameworks like the 59-minute help rule
- Improved engineering operating cadence with stronger ticketing, standups, and PR review discipline
- Scaled multi-team delivery at Natera from 15 to 45 reports while quadrupling productivity
- Delivered major cross-functional initiatives including new lab launch and monolith-to-microservices transition
- Translated business needs into software strategy for manufacturing operations
- Built an order management platform that increased customer throughput 4x in the first year
- Long-term product ownership experience, including a manufacturing platform that grew into a 13-year program across 11 plants
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