Daniel Svonava

Superlinked

superlinked.com makes it easier to turn data into vector embeddings

Co-Founder & CEO

creable.io

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

Advisory Board Member

Tater Games

tatergames.com is a data-driven game studio

Board Member

Primeflow

primeflow.com built tools for super-connectors and their network-driven business

Founder & CTO

Google

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.

Senior Software Engineer

47pixels

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.

Co-Founder

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

Software Engineering Intern

IBM Research

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.

Research Internship

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.

"Great Minds" Research Internship

Slovak University of Technology

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.

Teaching assistant

Vector Compute @ Superlinked | xYouTube

➡️ 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!
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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

National Gas

I am working with NG's Field Force to analyse the different roles, systems, and various devices Engineers, Technicians, and Planners use to complete highly specialised tasks. I use this information to identify gaps and areas where efficiency, precision and experience can be improved. 

Alongside our multidisciplinary team, I explore a range of cutting-edge technologies, looking to leverage their potential to drive forward the capabilities of our Operations. I integrate UX strategy, research, and User-Centered methods to build a harmonious relationship between technology and the people who use it.

Principal UX Specialist 

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

Responsible for user research and the re-design of the Employee Journey. A suite of HR processes that touch on every aspect of an employee's life cycle in an organisation.

Enterprise User Experience Lead

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Steadily growing the strategic user-centred approaches and methods in the organisation. Working closely with senior stakeholders, developers to research and design innovative evidence based services and products in all areas of enterprise experience - finance, HR, buying, management information and more.

Digital Head of Enterprise User Experience

Principal Enterprise User Experience Specialist

Sputnik Education

Sputnik was an education company where students gained in-depth, working knowledge of UX/CX delivering real projects for companies. With our students, we delivered design & research projects for:
- Sense Worldwide
- Nuvven
- Qdooz

Founder, CEO

Crown Commercial Service

User Experience Specialist

Keytree

- Barclays: research & design
- Jaguar Land Rover: global research
- ARM: global research & design 
- TfL: UX/UI design and testing
- Greggs: UX/UI design & testing
- Smiths News: UX/UI design
- News UK: UX/UI concept work

Principal UX Consultant

Microsoft

I was the UX specialist on the team that created the BAFTA award-winning Xbox Kinect Sesame Street TV application in a team responsible for the User Research and UX design for the application. 

It won in the Innovation category, as it was the first truly interactive TV experience that responded to players' decisions and movements.

I also designed the UX for 'Upload' - Xbox-One's pre-installed social network application - which allowed Xbox players to record, edit and share their gameplay straight from their Xbox.

And I then proceeded to design the CMS (Content Management System) for the 'Upload' social network to cope with its high volumes of user-generated content.

UX Consultant

BERG

I designed immersive gaming interfaces for a new type of geo-locational device for... [NDA RESTRICTED]

UI & UX Consultant

Miniclip

Designer of UI & UX for Miniclip's social games

Senior UI & UX Designer

Jagex

Designer of complex gaming user interfaces for RuneScape - the world's largest free MMORPG.

UI Designer

I am an Experience strategist, designer and researcher with over 15 years of experience leading UX/Product roles. I specialise in helping organisations solve product problems from inception to completion and transform complex systems into user-centred, innovative, and enjoyable tools.

My experience comes from working with Digital Agencies, Tech and Games companies for corporates and startups in the UK, Asia, the US and the Middle East. 

I also draw great pleasure from upskilling UX professionals and design teams in advanced UX methods through work on real projects. Project-based training is the best way to rapidly increase capabilities and build essential and lasting advanced skills in both corporate and fast-moving startup environments.

I delivered projects to:
Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover, Barclays, UK Government, ARM, TfL and more.

Specialise in:
Experience Strategy, research, service design, product design, systems-oriented design, strategic foresight, UI, Interaction Design,

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