We will take a deep dive into the process that goes into creating Yandex Armenia’s products. Also, we will discuss how new services are born and developed.
April 11
12 PM AMT, Yerevan
The event will be held in English.
The event will be held in English.
Reports on the architecture of AI agents and algorithmic sections
Game-based case lab: the journey of an SRE team managing microservice availability in conditions of chaos and uncertainty
HR workshop: transitioning from development to management, with advice from experts of Yandex Armenia
Afterparty with music and networking
Program
12:00
Guest arrival, networking
leading
Aikaz Muradian
Unit Lead at Yandex Telemost
13:00
Opening
Meetup Opening
Aram Mkhitaryan
Head of Yandex Armenia
13:05
Why Algorithmic Sections Matter in Hiring
Roman Elizarov will talk about what algorithmic interviews actually test and how algorithmic thinking connects to engineering maturity and working with production systems.
He will also explain why algorithmic problems remain an essential part of the hiring process at Yandex and answer participants’ questions.
Roman Elizarov
Head of Developer Experience at Yandex Urban Services
13:45
The Agent That Knows Our Internals: Building DeepResearch at Yandex
Everyone is building AI agents now. However, very few are making it to production.
Vadim will share how his team built a DeepResearch agent that answers complex questions using Yandex’s internal docs and codebase — what architecture choices worked (and which ones they had to throw away), how they taught the agent to navigate a massive codebase, and what it actually took to go from a weekend prototype to a tool engineers rely on daily.
Vadim Patsev
Lead AI Agents Engineer, Yandex Armenia
14:25
Break
14:55
CaseLab
Reliability in Practice: An Interactive Simulator of SRE Processes
How do you see the whole picture in a system with hundreds of services without drowning in excess data?
In this hands-on session, we’ll explore systematic approaches to reliability — from identifying critical paths to running incident response exercises. Participants will split into teams and experience the full cycle of planning and incident management in a game-based format.
Vadim Martynov
Engineering Lead, Platform Components at Monium Yandex
14:55
HR workshop
Strong Engineer: Career Development Scenarios
Transitioning from development to management is not just a change in grade: it’s a change in profession.
The workshop will consist of two parts. First, we will discuss whether becoming a manager is the right path at all: what changes with the shift in role and who this transition is best suited for. Then we will move to the practical part and explore the mechanics of career growth: from developing the necessary competencies to making your first managerial decisions. The Head of Executive Search will also share insights into how leadership potential is evaluated and what specialists are actually promoted for.
Anahit Antonyan
Executive Search and International Recruitment Yandex
16:25
Closing
16:30
Afterparty
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