Aleksandr Krotov

Aleksandr Krotov works as a Neural Network Infrastructure Developer at Yandex, where he builds large-scale systems and tools used by millions of people every day. His work focuses on reliability, performance and infrastructure for machine learning.

Alongside his engineering work he regularly gives talks and workshops for students and young programmers, with an emphasis on what it is like to work in a large engineering team and how technical decisions are made under real-world constraints.

At the event he takes part in the panel on the future of engineering professions and on which skills will be most in demand over the coming decade.