Daniel Svonava — Co-Founder

➡️ Building a compute framework for turning data into vector embeddings. 🤗 Connect your data infrastructure to your vector database with Superlinked. Join our product preview: 📋 Try it out in a Python notebook with no dependencies. ↗️ Design the perfect vectors for your retrieval use-case. 🔧 Mix and match streaming, batch, structured and unstructured data. 🚀 Launch to production with your favorite Vector Database. ➡️ Let's sort out information retrieval across your organization! . . . . Previous: Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, where he tech-leads, designs and builds forecasting & pricing systems for ads worth billions of dollars. These are distributed systems that run on thousands of machines, process terabytes of data per query and combine Machine Learning modeling with game-like simulation of tens of thousands ad campaigns - all happening in real-time to enable thousands of concurrent users of buying tools like AdWords and DBM. Daniel wields a rare combination of deep technical skills, a user-centric drive and an ability to align multiple teams towards a common goal - launching and landing high quality cutting edge products. Daniel co-founded a tech startup that brought machine vision to the consumer photo space 10 years ago, he was an invited speaker at an ML dev conference in Zurich and speaks at startup events regularly. He holds multiple patents with Google, is published in a peer-reviewed ML journal from his time at IBM Research and is a Google Code Jam on-site finalist. On weekends he flies, climbs, skis and bikes in the Alps, see: http://instagram.com/mountain.supo

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AdTech expert with a strong focus on machine learning and data-driven solutions.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 22 yrs 8 mos

Career Highlights

Tech-lead for billion-dollar ad systems at Google.
Co-founded multiple innovative tech startups.
Published in peer-reviewed ML journal and holds patents.

Work Experience

Superlinked

Co-Founder & CEO (4 yrs 7 mos)

creable.io

Advisory Board Member (3 yrs 11 mos)

Self-employed

Tiny angel deals (6 yrs 2 mos)

Tater Games

Board Member (3 yrs)

Google

Senior Software Engineer (5 yrs 10 mos)

Software Engineering Intern (5 mos)

47pixels

Co-Founder (1 yr 9 mos)

IBM Research

Research Internship (4 mos)

"Great Minds" Research Internship (5 mos)

Slovak University of Technology

Teaching assistant (2 yrs 5 mos)

Freelance and contract work

Application, data analytics and web design & development (8 yrs 5 mos)

Education

Venture Capital Academy at University of California, Berkeley

Master's degree at Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology

Daniel Svonava

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Tech-lead for billion-dollar ad systems at Google.
Co-founded multiple innovative tech startups.
Published in peer-reviewed ML journal and holds patents.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AdTech expert with a strong focus on machine learning and data-driven solutions.

Contact

svonava@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceC++Computer ScienceComputer VisionData MiningDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsEclipseGitJavaProgrammingPythonResearchRuby

About

Experience

Superlinked

Co-Founder & CEO

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

superlinked.com makes it easier to build AI Search & Matching systems for complex data

Creable.io

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

creable.com is the world's biggest influencer database (300M creators)

Self-employed

Tiny angel deals

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

arcade.dev, getroe.ai, kontext.so, steerlab.ai, topk.io, zettafleet.com
arcade.dev - delegated auth for agents
getroe.ai - vertical AI for risk & compliance
kontext.so - ad platform for chatbot monetization
steerlab.ai - vertical AI for RFPs
topk.io - cost-efficient vector & traditional retrieval
zettafleet.com - LM training on commodity GPUs

Tater games

Board Member

Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs

tatergames.com is a data-driven game studio

Google

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2013 – Nov 2018 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

2016 - 2018
Tech-lead for YouTube Reservation Ads forecasting (Can a reservation be booked or not?) and pricing (How much should we charge for it?).
2015
Tech-lead for YouTube Video Ads traffic prediction and cross-Google Ads reach prediction, enabling ad buying in Adwords and DBM.
Focus on making Google Ads useful for Brand advertisers.
2013 - 2014
Within YouTube monetization I'm constantly switching between being an analyst who organizes and makes sense of data, builds prototype visualizations and spreads around the insights to help decision making and product design and being an engineer who uses these insights to build useful production systems.

Software Engineering Intern

Jul 2011 – Dec 2011 · 5 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

Exploratory large-scale information mining from unstructured data. Patent granted.

47pixels

Co-Founder

Apr 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

We were a software startup in the Story-telling space. Major products:
47posters - B2B SaaS for Print Service Providers launched in 7 countries
memoarc - B2C storytelling photogallery
dofsome - B2C minimalistic, high-quality photo hosting.
Reach out to me for a complete portfolio.

Ibm research

2 roles

Research Internship

Feb 2011 – Jun 2011 · 4 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

Joined the Information analytics group within the Mathematics and Computer Science department again to continue my work on matrix reordering and co-clustering remotely via IBM SK.

"Great Minds" Research Internship

Apr 2010 – Sep 2010 · 5 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

Joined the Information analytics group within the Mathematics and Computer Science department. Co-authored a research paper involving graph theory, clustering and visualization. Worked on a web-based marketing intelligence tool employing data-mining techniques and back-end infrastructure optimization.

Slovak university of technology

Teaching assistant

Jan 2008 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

The course is called Development of effective algorithms and programs. I prepared problem statements and solutions for assignments and competitions. I also set problems for ProFIIT, national programming competition for High school students.

Freelance and contract work

Application, data analytics and web design & development

Jan 2002 – Jun 2010 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Mostly web applications and other custom tasks like signal processing on intercepted samples and statistical protocol reconstruction.. (projects & technologies in the full CV on demand).