# Georgiy Tarasov

> AI Product Engineer @ PostHog

Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgiy

Product Engineer at PostHog, challenging AI stuff and scale.

Ex-founder:
- 99sales - launched a search engine for deal-hunting in fashion, aggregating offers from 250+ e-commerce stores and empowering users to search their favorite fashion brands in one feed.
- Outline Studio - a software development studio focused on early-stage startups. Some of our clients included a Singapore-based fintech neobank, SaaS for e-commerce executives, and an omnichannel analytics platform for digital ads.
- Over a dozen other pet projects.

## Work Experience
### AI Product Engineer @ PostHog
Jan 2024 – Present
PostHog AI team
We're giving every developer and leader access to PostHog AI, an artificially intelligent product manager you can chat with any time.

Read More: https://posthog.com/teams/posthog-ai

### Founding Software Engineer @ Sleuth
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
- Developed a parenting app answering key questions like "is this normal?" and "what to expect?", leveraging analysis of over 62,000 survey responses and enabling predictive insights into future well-being and developmental stages, achieving over 50,000 installs.
- Established the technical architecture; developed a major part of Python back-end using Django Rest Framework, mobile apps using React Native and web apps using React and Next.js, ensuring 99.99% uptime.
- Served as Technical Lead, focusing on strategic initiatives with founders to grow the customer base, resulting in cost per install 2x lower than the average in the "Health" category.
- Implemented data pipelines for training and validation of AI models, continuously integrating survey and database data, achieving a 12x reduction in deployment time of new datasets.
- Spearheaded the creation of interactive visual stories for quiz results, increasing user engagement by 50% and enhancing data interpretation.

Learn more about Sleuth: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyshoenthal/2023/11/06/sleuth-app-uses-ai-to-help-parents-navigate-kids-medical-needs/

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ridgebox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Led a team of five developers remotely using Agile, performing code reviews, mentoring junior members, working with internal stakeholders and users to incorporate feedback into the applications until the company's acquisition.
- Increased the engineering team's ROI by 25% through upgrading a tech stack, developing internal tools, implementing observability and automated quality assurance, creating a design system, refining build tools, resulting in 10% fewer incidents and seamless scaling.
- Refactored a scoring service, reducing time required for processing mortgage applicants to minutes, improving NPS by 15%.
- Designed and developed a microservice-based system for scraping Google, Yelp and Twitter, providing data for internal credit scoring, achieving a 3x reduction in cost.

### Software Engineer @ Ridgebox
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | New York, United States
- Led the development of a mindfulness platform, achieving over 700k downloads, 20,000+ MAU, and a 4.7 average user rating.
- Optimized video delivery, increasing platform availability in regions with slower Internet speeds and reducing failed video plays, boosting a program completion rate by 19%.
- Paid down technical debt gradually and pioneered the transition from Sketch and Illustrator to Figma, reducing by 30% development time of frontend apps.
- Contributed significantly to the recruitment process, resulting in the successful hiring of four engineers, coordinating with both internal teams and external clients.

### Web Developer @ Upwork
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
- Migrated a SaaS email template editor from WordPress to a React-based SPA, achieving correct displaying of emails in 100% of major clients and services.
- Refactored a billing module of a backed service written in Node.js, achieving a 12% reduction in dropped carts and increased reliability of the payment system.
- Collaborated with a team of designers, developers, and marketing professionals to create dynamic and engaging WordPress and React websites for a diverse client base.


## Education
### Bachelor in Computer Science in Business Informatics
Higher School of Economics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/georgiytarasov
- Website: https://tarasov.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-29