Igor Tsvetkov

Software Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States23 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in large-scale machine learning systems.
Technical leader with extensive mentoring experience.
Proficient in multiple programming languages and ML frameworks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and SaaS solutions.

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Machine LearningSoftware DesignMultithreadingDistributed SystemsObject Oriented DesignSoftware EngineeringDebuggingAlgorithmsSoftware DevelopmentC++PythonOOPSystem Architecture

About

Senior software engineer, building and optimizing infrastructure for large-scale machine learning systems. • Software design and development • Served as a technical leader on several projects. • Specialties: large scale, distributed backend systems; development of services with user traffic of >100K QPS; design of data pipelines processing petabytes of data. Programming languages: C++, Python. Previously worked with Java, Assembler, C#, JavaScript, Go, ML, Delphi/Pascal, VB. ML Frameworks: Pytorch, TensorFlow. Spoken language: English, Russian and Hebrew. US Citizen.

Experience

Google

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Kirkland, WA · On-site

Cruise

Senior Staff Software Engineer

May 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States

Machine Learning Infrastructure.
Focusing on improving reliability and usability of the training framework based on Pytorch Lightning and Ray. Driving engineering and operation excellence.

Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2007 – Apr 2022 · 14 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Design, development, maintenance and optimization of a large scale machine learning system for Google Ads (AdBrain).
In the past I have worked on projects in Ads Quality, Shopping, Search Features and Search Infrastructure.
Served as a technical leader on several projects.
Proficient in Google technologies such as Serving infrastructure, Tensorflow, Map Reduce, Bigtable, Distributed computing.
Languages: C++, Python.
Hosted interns; mentored Nooglers; conducted hundreds of interviews.
Worked from Seattle, Pittsburgh, Sunnyvale and Haifa.

Intel - haifa, israel

Software Engineer

Sep 2003 – May 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

System Validation engineer in the Post Silicon Functional Validation team.
Design, development and maintenance of CPU validation tools.
Languages: C++, Assembler.
Low-level debug tools: Disassembly, ITP and Logic Analyzer.
Participated in major projects: Intel Centrino™, Core Duo™, Core2 Duo™.

Hps ltd. israel (member of bizportal)

Software Developer

Mar 2000 – Oct 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos

Design, development and maintenance of accountant and lawyer software
Analysis of customer requirements, studying accounting laws and developing end-user tools from scratch.
Built 4 new key products.
Maintenance of several existing programs and technical leading of the customer support team.
Languages: Delphi, COM, VBA.