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$100 / month
Up to 4 calls per month
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 3-4 days
Tasks & exercises
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One-off sessions with Yuri
One-off sessions are a great option if you’re looking for specific advice on a certain topic.
Expert Consultation
Whatever doesn't fit the mold: Get a full hour with a mentor to discuss your needs. Be it help with coding something, creating a software architecture, deciding on a strategy for your business or working in pairs. If you don't know whether what you want …
About
Although my profile on MentorCruise says "New Mentor", I have been mentoring others for quite some time now. Here's a testimonial from one of my previous mentees from another platform:
"I've had the privilege of being mentored by Yuri over the past year as I've gone through a career transition from a technical lead role to an engineering director in a startup. I have been able to go to Yuri for advice on many broad topics such as roadmap planning, team management, communication, hiring and more. Yuri is able to curate his guidence in a way that is actionable, within the context and resources I have, which has directly and positively impacted my growth into my new role. I look forward to our continued conversations!
- Stephen Dresselhaus-Marais"
What you can expect from me during our mentoring relationship:
- actionable advice
- reading recommendations
- data-driven approaches
- homework
I am currently the Vice President of Engineering at Academia.edu. I've been with the company for almost 10 years now. I joined as a regular Software Engineer back in 2013, and have since then done almost every job there is to do in Engineering: I was a product engineer, an SRE, the SRE team lead, the Director of Infrastructure and a Senior Director of Engineering. My previous boss, the founding CTO of Academia.edu, retired in 2021, and I was promoted to VP.
On the personal side of things: I am originally from the ex-Soviet Union, from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I came to the United States in 1993, when I was 12, with my folks. We moved to New York City, which is where I went to high school (Stuyvesant), college (NYU), and had my first few jobs. I moved to the SF Bay Area in 2010. I lived in Berkeley for a long time, and in 2021 I bought a house in Concord, where I live with my wife and two kids, ages 7 and 5.
