Yury Podorozhnyy
Strategic Advisor
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Podorozhnyy is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and AI executive with a track record of launching zero-to-one ventures and scaling them within large organizations. As founder and CEO of Any Void, he built a mobile app development studio that was acquired by Yandex, where he later led flagship products including Yandex Maps, Yandex Metro and Kinopoisk, driving significant user growth and revenue. He has deep expertise in AR, computer vision and ML, having formed and led Yandex's AR unit and steered immersive mapping and city-scale experiences. Currently, he is Chief AI Officer at Finom and serves as strategic advisor to Fjor and Refsee, applying AI to health, nutrition, video search and creator tooling. He earned a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Moscow State University, grounding his leadership in rigorous analytics. Now based in London, he brings a global perspective from Siberia to Dubai to Europe, shaping pragmatic AI-driven product innovation across mobility, AR and digital services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (4)
map-kit10
yandex8
ios6
android2
Github contributions (3)
yandexmobile/yandexmapkit-ios
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
yandexyandex-mapmapiosmap-kit
seeyu/yandexmapkit-android
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
yandexandroidyandex-mapmapmap-kit
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