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

Stefan Huyghe

Stefan Huyghe has over 25 years of experience in the localization industry. He currently serves as the Vice President of Localization at Communicaid Inc., where he excels in high-level operations, workflow optimization, social selling, and business development.


Stefan has become a distinguished AI Enterprise Strategist and is the author of the widely-read AI-in-Loc newsletter, which monitors cutting-edge AI technology trends and innovations in the localization sector.


Furthermorre, he is the host of LocDiscussion, a popular online webcast series that features conversations about contemporary language industry topics with important international guests.


His insightful articles and blog posts frequently appear in leading translation industry publications, and MultiLingual Magazine recently recognized him as one of the top 34 most influential figures in localization.


Stefan is a true polyglot, fluent in Dutch, French, German, and English. His international experience spans living in Switzerland, Greece, Spain, and the French West Indies, before he settled in the United States.

Vice President Localization

Founded translation division as new revenue stream 
Assembled and led a team of world class localization and translation experts
Grew it into a multimillion-dollar grossing operation within first 2 years
Designed and implemented a State-of-the-Art ITMS (Interpreting and Translation Management System) database infrastructure that controls, manages and optimizes the company from the ground up: Project Management, Sales, CRM, Accounting, Vendor Management, Scheduling and Calendars are all fully integrated in this system
Manage all day-to-day operations
Initiated organizational transformation through strategic reorientation on core verticals
Redeveloped customer processes to match the customer needs 
Relentlessly push for continued improvement in service offering
Implemented and expanded customer success methodology to improve account growth
Directed strong focus on existing customers by cross selling additional services 
Supervised translation production and integration workflow with large Ecommerce platforms
Continue to train, grow, and motivate account management team to be customer obsessed, strive for continuous improvement of service with a can-do attitude to all customer needs
Instill proactive mindset to look for opportunities of growth withing every account and deliver exceptional customer service
Led the division in Sales for 18 straight years

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