Sergei Kovalenko
About Sergei Kovalenko
Sergei Kovalenko is a Sr. Director of Engineering with extensive experience in building high-scale data platforms, particularly at Yahoo Finance. He currently leads engineering efforts at Qualified.com, focusing on innovative tools for sales and marketing.
Current Role at Qualified
Sergei Kovalenko serves as the Sr. Director of Engineering at Qualified.com since 2021. In this role, he leads the engineering team in developing The Pipeline Cloud, a suite of interconnected products designed to maximize revenue generation for sales and marketing professionals. His leadership focuses on creating innovative tools that enhance prospect engagement and provide data-driven insights, significantly impacting the pipeline generation process.
Professional Experience at Yahoo
Sergei Kovalenko has extensive experience at Yahoo!, where he held various positions from 2002 to 2016. He began as a Software Engineering Intern in Yahoo! Commerce in Munich and progressed to roles such as Software Engineer for Yahoo! News and Lead Engineer for FIFAworldcup.com. He later became a Senior Software Engineer and then a Sr. Software Engineering Manager for Web Applications & Data Services at Yahoo! Finance, contributing to high-scale data platforms and user-facing applications.
Experience at Twitter
From 2016 to 2021, Sergei Kovalenko worked at Twitter as a Senior Software Engineering Manager. He led the Ads Customers Experience Engineering team, focusing on developing user-facing applications that enhance interactions between advertisers and the platform. His work at Twitter involved leveraging engineering practices to improve the overall advertising experience.
Educational Background
Sergei Kovalenko has a strong academic background in computer science and linguistics. He studied at Kherson State University, earning a Diplom (MA) in Foreign Philology & Pedagogics from 1994 to 1999. He then attended the Technical University of Munich, where he studied Computer Science from 2000 to 2002. Additionally, he completed a PG Cert in Computational Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 2002 to 2004.