Dmitri Kazanski
Los Angeles, CA
My credentials
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified ScrumMaster®
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
About
Title: VP of Product & Data Sciecne
Ad Tech product innovator with 23 years of leadership experience. I partner with Data Science teams to build Machine Learning solutions that optimize monetization, campaign performance, and audience building.
- Hired and led world-class Product and Data Science teams.
- Created optimization engines for Mobile-First and Native DSPs: Conversion & Win Rate prediction, Fraud detection, and bidding logic. Scaled the mobile solution from 220k to 4.2 billion parameters.
- Launched Contextual Bandits Machine Learning solutions to optimize publisher yield & advertiser conversions.
- Led the development of an NLP classifier that sorts billions of pages into 700+ IAB categories in 11 languages.
- Built a solution that automatically launched tens of thousands of ad campaigns for small businesses.
- Created an in-house Data Management Platform (DMP), which resolved contextual relevance more effectively than Google, as demonstrated by a CTR of 8% and an eCPM of $45.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 10/02/2023 - present - ClearPier, Inc. (VP of Product & Data Science)
- 03/08/2021 - 02/28/2023 - MGID, Inc. (Head of Product, North America)
- 05/28/2019 - 01/31/2021 - Hive Media Group (Product Owner (VP of Product))
- 09/14/2016 - 02/15/2019 - OpenX Technologies, Inc. (Product Owner (Sr. Director, Programmatic Direct))
- 01/01/2009 - 05/30/2015 - Manta Media, Inc. (Product Owner)