IT NonStop: IT Travel Trends

• Alex Popov, Site Engineering Lead, Skyscanner

Breaking things (and loving it!) for 17 years. Joined the crazy world of travel 7 years ago and built a pricing engine with Everbread. Worked for the two largest meta-search companies: Kayak and Skyscanner. Currently running a team of 40 at Skyscanner involved with predicting prices, controlling content quality, caching, chat bots and conversational interfaces.

• Marcin Pilarczyk, Data scientist, Ryanair, Wroclaw, Poland

Marcin is a data scientist and a leader of Ryanair's Data & Analytics department. Marcin has around 14 year of professional experience working in the aviation, telco, and financial industries. He has architecture experience across topics including data science, big data solutions, and data warehouses. 

• Elena Nikolaeva,Software Developer, Booking.com, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

Elena worked for 7 years in 2GIS.ru, the map-making company, creating software for making maps; and then she moved to the Netherlands to work for Booking.com. There she is leading the Geo team, which is taking care of all location-related data on their website. 

• Igor Leontiev, Lead Architect, VISEO group worldwide, Lyon, France

Started my career as a .Net developer and OpenStack. In 2013, was seduced by the Cloud Computing of Microsoft Azure. In 2015, was selected to work on the co-creation of an IAE Master's program in France (one of the top 10 Business Intelligence programs in France).Today, I am Lead Architect on all the Blockchain and IoT projects of the VISEO group worldwide. MVP Azure, Regularly participate in conferences (Azure Ukrainian Community, Azure User Group France and Microsoft User Group Lyon).

• Julia Falaleeva, Senior Account Director, DataArt, London, United Kingdom

Julia started as a Web developer more than 10 years ago and evolved through different roles - team leader, scrum master, project manager. Once relocated to London, Julia moved into the Sales and Marketing sphere, participating in a number of sales activities as a business analyst and as a solution designer. This experience enabled Julia to combine her technical background with a freshly gained understating of clients' business specifics. Being a Senior Account Director for the past 2 years, Julia now manages up to 15 accounts from a number of industries and with completely different ideas behind their solutions.

• Tatiana Kharlamova, Marketing Analyst, DataArt, Wroclaw, Poland

Tatiana is a marketing analyst in DataArt's travel and hospitality practice with 8 years of experience in travel and technologies. She owned a travel agency for 5 years and worked as an IT vendor relationship manager for 2 years. Now she is leveraging her expertise and passion for travel and technologies to conduct travel and hospitality market research and analysis to identify trends and patterns of behavior on the market, in order to help DataArt's Travel Practice make informed decisions about the travel technology market.

• Alexander Trishchenko, Senior JavaScript Developer, DataArt, Wroclaw, Poland

Alexandr focuses on the performance, extensibility, and testability of JS applications. He has discovered koa.js to be a good solution for backend applications written in node.js.

• Alexandr Khmil, Project Manager, 3D Expert, DataArt, Wroclaw, Poland

15 years in 3D Graphics. Completed many projects in architectural visualization, 3D printing and scanning, simulation, AR/VR, CAD engineering, medical imaging, gaming and more. Actively pushing 3D technologies into various industries.

• Valentina Zotova, Project Manager, DataArt, Wroclaw, Poland

Valentina has more than 7 years of experience in IT. Starting her career as a trainee and then a Java Specialist, now Valentina is successfully working on travel projects as a Project Manager.