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Biography
Education
Alexey graduated from MEPhI, has a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences degree.
Career
Alexey Bashkeev has been working at Yandex since 2009 and is responsible for the development of data storage and processing systems, development tools and analytics. Under the leadership of Alexei, a common infrastructure was created, which is used by all Yandex services, including Yandex.Cloud.
2020: Head of Yandex.Cloud
On June 29, 2020, Yandex announced the appointment of Alexei Bashkeev as the head of Yandex.Cloud. Jan Leshchinsky, who has been responsible for Cloud's development since the start of the project in 2017, will return to the United States with his family and continue to advise the company for the next few months. Oleg Koverznev remains the operating director of Yandex.Cloud, he will continue to be responsible for the development of Cloud's business. The Yandex Infrastructure Department, led by Alexei Bashkeev, is teaming up with the Yandex.Cloud team. The combined team will be engaged in the development of a public cloud platform and internal infrastructure tasks.
The cloud under the leadership of Yang has grown into a full-fledged business: we see a clear demand for our cloud products from large and medium-sized businesses in all industries. Over two years, the team has shown excellent results, launching 29 services on the platform in the field of data storage and processing, development tools and machine learning. Without Yan's deep understanding of technologies and the vector of global market development, this would not have happened, "commented Tigran Khudaverdyan, Managing Director of the Yandex Group of Companies. - Alexey, the head of the joint direction, participated in the creation of the platform from the very beginning, is deeply immersed in development, is well acquainted with the team. Under his leadership, we will continue to create and develop public cloud services within a single ecosystem, and will also be able to gradually unify the infrastructure and technologies used in various Yandex projects. Yandex.Cloud services are gaining popularity within Yandex, in our own projects: Yandex.Workshop, Edadil, Auto.ru and other services have already transferred a significant part of their infrastructure there. I believe this trend will continue into the future. |
2022: Appointment as Head of Yandex Cloud and Yandex 360 Business Group
On September 23, 2022, Yandex Cloud and Yandex 360 teamed up to provide users with the full range of cloud services together. Gradually, a single partner B2B ecosystem of third-party solutions and services of development companies, system integrators and outsourcers will be formed around the business unit. The business group will be headed by Alexey Bashkeev, while continuing to lead Yandex Cloud. Read more here.