I've been interested in the intersection between technology and psychology my whole life. My biggest passion is influencing people's everyday decisions on a large scale, especially in the cases where these decisions will greatly benefit them long-term. Wellness is by far my favorite of these areas.
Here are some fun things not covered below:
* Started programming when I was 9 on an "Elektronika MK-61" calculator.
* Grew up in Kiev, Ukraine, moved to U.S. when I was 13.
* Took Daniel Kanheman's "Psychology of Decision Making" class at Princeton, making me forever fall in love with psychology.
* I love books (Clay Christensen, Andy Grove, Yalom).
Co-Founder/President @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Co-Founder/Co-CEO @ From October 2008 to Present (7 years 1 month) New YorkCo-Founder/CTO @ From January 2007 to October 2011 (4 years 10 months) Software Engineer / Tech Lead @ Founded and later led the GeoSearch project on Google Maps. We crawled geo-tagged user-generated information on the web, extracted it, intelligently clustered it, and made it searchable on Google Maps. I was inspired to start the project by Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash".
Also worked briefly on the mySQL Gateway, a mySQL interface to BigTable. Learned a lot about Google's awesome infrastructure. From October 2005 to November 2008 (3 years 2 months) Researcher @ Created a reading system for the blind, taught robots to play soccer, won the Robocup Worldcup 2005 in Osaka, Japan. From September 2004 to July 2005 (11 months) Berlin, GermanySoftware Engineering Intern @ Worked on optimizing x86 execution in Solaris Kernel 10. From June 2003 to August 2003 (3 months) Menlo Park, CaliforniaSoftware Engineering Intern @ Worked on the SQL Server Replication team. Wrote the first implementation of peer-to-peer replication that later became a core SQL Server feature. From June 2002 to August 2002 (3 months) Redmond, Washington
AB, Computer Science, Finance, Theater @ Princeton University From 2000 to 2004 Artem Petakov is skilled in: Mobile Applications, Programming, Android, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Git, Start-ups, Java, Mobile Devices, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Software Development, Web Applications, Scalability