# Vladimir Baskakov

> Senior Software Engineer | Search & Ranking Systems | Ex-DoorDash | Python, Kotlin

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vladimirbaskakov

Search systems I built at DoorDash drive $10M+ annual revenue. 10 years shipping ranking, ML integration, and high-load infrastructure.


CORE IMPACT:
- DoorDash: Integrated Learn-to-Rank models into search ranking, driving $10M+ annual revenue and 8% Add-to-Cart lift
- Search Infrastructure: Architected migration from ElasticSearch to in-house engine, reducing P99 latency from 400ms to 200ms for 1B+ SKUs
- Founding Engineer: Built AI-enhanced platforms from zero including vehicle inspection tool (65% efficiency gain) and multi-stage investment agent (60min to 5min analysis)
- Leadership: Scaled backend teams 1→6 engineers, bridging product requirements and technical roadmaps

TECHNICAL STACK:
- Backend: Python (FastAPI), Kotlin (Micronaut), C++, TypeScript (Svelte, Tailwind CSS)
- AI & Search: LLM Agents, ReAct, Ranking Optimization, ElasticSearch, Lucene
- Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake

Open to Staff/Senior roles at high-growth companies and late-stage startups. 

Contact: galilei.mail@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Reevo
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founding Engineer @ Clarity Auto Care
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Engineered a custom low-latency Web Acquisition Platform (Svelte, Python) for Clarity Auto Care; improved lead-to-call conversion by 5x (2% → 10%) with an estimated ~$300k in additional annualized revenue.
- Built an AI-Enhanced Vehicle Inspection Platform integrating LLMs to analyze vehicle photos; reduced average inspection time by 65% (45 min → 15 min), reclaiming ~$36k+ annually per technician.
- Architected an autonomous Multi-Stage Investment Agent (Python, ReAct) that analyzes pitch decks and verifies market data; compressed 60 minutes of human analysis into less 5 minutes at 1/50th the operational cost.
- Built a resilient event-driven data ingestion pipeline on GCP Pub/Sub with exponential backoff and DLQ; achieved 99.9% data availability for a $22M VC fund.
- Launched a rental car analytics platform for Turo hosts; achieved $1k MRR within 2 months by automating market demand analysis (Python), before executing a strategic shutdown due to identified long-term viability risks.

### Senior Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Integrated a Learn-to-Rank (LTR) model into the search stack and negotiated a Latency vs. Revenue trade-off with product leadership, driving an 8% increase in Add-to-Cart rate (~$10M annualized revenue)
- Initiated & Led the Search Interface Unification, consolidating 3 fragmented codebases into a single Search Gateway service; convinced leadership to prioritize refactoring over features, resulting in a 3x increase in engineering velocity for future iterations.
- Architected migration from ElasticSearch to in-house Lucene engine, eliminating P99 latency spikes (400ms → 200ms), uncapping recall limits for 100% of the corpus; evangelized platform adoption across Ads, Consumer, and Substitutions teams
- Owned the end-to-end Grocery Inventory Ingestion pipeline processing 1B+ unique SKUs daily; tuned Kubernetes batch jobs for high-throughput processing, ensuring strict data freshness SLAs for major retailers (Safeway, Walgreens).
- Mentored 2 interns to full-time offers and successfully advocated for an up-leveled Middle Engineer offer for one report by assigning high-impact critical path projects and defending their performance during calibration.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Cherry Labs, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Scaled backend team from 1 to 6 engineers. Led engineering team to deliver real-time fall detection system for elderly care facilities; platform reliability and accuracy were key factors in closing $4M Series A round
- Drove cross-functional alignment between Product, Backend, and ML teams, translating business requirements into technical roadmaps.
- Established a Privacy by Design security architecture with signed one-time video access links; initiated and managed a third-party security audit that confirmed zero critical vulnerabilities, transforming security into a key sales asset for enterprise partners.
- Standardized engineering processes by introducing Scrum/Agile methodologies, replacing ad-hoc development with structured sprints and retrospectives to improve delivery predictability.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cherry Labs, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Refactored a monolithic Computer Vision pipeline into a multi-process architecture using Shared Memory to bypass Python GIL, enabling stable 24/7 real-time fall detection which secured the company's Seed Round.
- Designed a Reverse RPC distributed architecture for edge devices, enabling reliable remote control of cameras in homes with weak LTE connections and restrictive NAT/Firewall environments.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mail.Ru Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Москва, Россия
- Re-engineered core Draft Search retrieval algorithm in C++, implementing zero-cost synonym expansion that improved search quality by 4% without latency regression under 500+ QPS load
- Designed and implemented Team Draft Interleaving (TDI) experimentation framework, reducing search ranking validation time from weeks to 2 days, enabling 20+ successful quality releases per year
- Built high-throughput Personalized Engagement System for Youla app (Python), processing user activity streams to generate 700k+ daily targeted push notifications, significantly reducing user churn

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yandex
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Moscow
- Internal service of suggest with 10000 rps ​​performance was developed

### Senior Software Developer @ State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom"
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- Architected modular client-server system for nuclear material detection; designed plugin API enabling extensible data processing
- Designed fault-tolerant network infrastructure (OpenVPN, OSPF, Quagga) connecting distributed monitoring systems across secure facilities

### Software developer @ State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom"
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- Delivered first certified secure network segment end-to-end, from requirements gathering to FSTEC certification (Russian federal security compliance)


## Education
### Master's degree in Physics
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vladimir-baskakov

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Last updated: 2026-04-10