Polina Matavina
About Polina Matavina
Polina Matavina is a Senior Software Engineer at BenevolentAI with extensive experience in software development and computational linguistics, having worked in various international locations and educational institutions.
Current Role at BenevolentAI
Polina Matavina is currently a Senior Software Engineer at BenevolentAI, based in London, England. Her role is conducted in a hybrid working environment. She started this position after serving two years as an Advanced Software Engineer at the same company. In her current role, she focuses on designing and developing software solutions to facilitate advanced scientific data analysis and drug discovery.
Previous Experience at Google
Polina Matavina has a significant tenure with Google, having worked there in multiple capacities. From 2019 to 2022, she held the position of Software Development Engineer in London, contributing to various projects focused on web applications and software design. She also completed internships at Google in Paris (2018) and Zürich (2017), which laid the foundation for her extensive experience in software engineering.
Educational Background
Polina Matavina holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), which she completed between 2016 and 2019. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Science (Computational Linguistics) from the same institution. She also attended the Yandex School of Data Analysis, where she studied Computer Science from 2015 to 2019. Her education reflects a strong focus on linguistics and computational technologies, key areas of her professional expertise.
Early Career and Teaching Experience
Polina Matavina has a passion for teaching, evident from her roles as a Teaching Assistant at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and School 179 of Moscow Institute of Open Education. She also taught at the Mytischi Programming School and served as a Teaching Assistant at the Summer Informatics School. These positions spanned from 2014 to 2019, demonstrating her dedication to education alongside her technical career.
Work at ABBYY and Other Roles
Before joining Google, Polina Matavina worked as a Computational Linguist specializing in ontology engineering at ABBYY from 2015 to 2017. She also had a brief role as a Software Engineer at Яндекс.Такси in Moscow and completed internships at Yandex and ABBYY. Her early professional years were marked by a diverse set of roles that helped build her expertise across different areas of software and computational linguistics.