Dr. Eugene Steinberg, a Founding engineer at Grid Dynamics and VP of Technology, leads key technology practices in commerce, search, and AI. As a Principal Architect, Dr. Steinberg has guided numerous significant programs from inception to production. His ability to align business requirements with technological capabilities has been crucial in delivering effective solutions: Leading the first industry implementation of Google Retail Search's alpha version, contributing to product feature definition Implementing one of the industry's first visual search and recommendation systems using deep learning (2017) Architecting microservices-based commerce platforms and custom search engines as principal architect at Macy's (2011-2018), establishing Grid Dynamics' search practice using Google Cloud Platform Pioneering distributed in-memory computing for fraud detection and leading teams in developing the first generation of Platform as a Service for eCommerce workloads at eBay and PayPal (2007-2011) Dr. Steinberg's expertise spans digital commerce platforms, AI/ML applications in commerce, information retrieval, enterprise search, natural language processing, computer vision, and scalable distributed systems. As a thought leader, Dr. Steinberg has been instrumental in developing the Grid Dynamics - Google partnership. He has spoken at conferences on search, conversational AI, and machine learning, and advises startups and VC firms on information retrieval and AI applications in digital commerce. Dr. Steinberg continues to drive innovation in digital commerce and related technologies, contributing to Grid Dynamics' reputation for engineering excellence and emerging technology expertise.