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My name is Ostap Korkuna.

I’m Ukrainian, Engineer, Volunteer, Husband and Father.

I’m currently pursuing my Masters in Management degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Prior to this I was a Director of Engineering at a late stage startup People.ai, and volunteered as a Co-chairman of the Board of Nova Ukraine — one of the largest Ukrainian non-profits in the USA. Previously I worked at Facebook (now Meta) for 9 years, building Facebook infrastructure.

📍 I currently live in San Carlos, California, USA.

Work #

Director of Engineering, Intelligence Platform at People.ai [2019-2024] #

In 2019 I joined the San Francisco based startup People.ai. The company is one of the leaders in the Revenue Intelligence space, building software that leverages data and AI to make the sales teams more efficient in their day-to-day job. I led the Intelligence Platform team, responsible for the core algorithms and AI behind People.ai.

Independent Contractor, MacPaw [2018] #

I worked with MacPaw (the creators of CleanMyMac) as an independent contractor, providing management consulting services to their Platform team and to the companies leadership.

Software Engineer, Facebook (now Meta) [2009-2018] #

In 2009 I moved to California to join Facebook (back then a 500 people company) as a software engineer. I helped build the Facebook infrastructure, in particular systems and services for infrastructure monitoring and alerting (internal code-name: ODS).

Tech talk about my work at Facebook: Data Monitoring at 250 Gbit/s with Facebook

Software Developer, BITImpulse [2008-2009] #

After graduating, I joined a small company (a startup) in Lviv, Ukraine called BITImpulse. BITImpulse was developing the Business Analysis Tool (BAT) — software for large retailers to streamline their sales analytics.

Volunteering #

MaydanSF #

In 2013 when Ukrainians protested against the pro-russian course of back then president Yanukovych (protests known us EuroMaydan, later became the Revolution of Dignity), a group of Ukrainian activists in San Francisco Bay Area decided to organize an informal movement called MaydanSF (Maydan San Francisco). MaydanSF was holding rallies and collecting funds to support protesters in Ukraine; later supporting the families of Heavenly Hundred (protesters killed by the law enforcement).

Nova Ukraine #

After the Revolution of Dignity, when russia started it’s proxy war against Ukraine, part of the original MaydanSF team decided to form an official non-profit organization. Nova Ukraine was created and I became one of the founders and a board member. Since 2015 I have been serving as a Co-chairman of the Board.

In 2022 Nova Ukraine became one of the first diaspora organizations to respond to the humanitarian crisis caused by the full scale attack of russia on Ukraine. Nova Ukraine has raised over $90,000,000 in monetary and in-kind donations to help Ukrainians.

Watch my interviews about Nova Ukraine for Charity Navigator: Ukraine Relief Efforts: Nova Ukraine, Ukraine One Year Later: Nova Ukraine

Education #

Master of Science in Management, Stanford MSx'25 [2024-present]
Stanford MSx is a one-year, full-time, advanced management degree program for accomplished leaders and executives.

Masters in Informatics, Faculty of Applied Mathematics of Lviv Ivan Franko National University [2017-2018]

Bachelors in Informatics, Faculty of Applied Mathematics of Lviv Ivan Franko National University [2013-2017]

Lviv Middle School #66 [1994-2013]

Achievements #

• 🎖️ The state award of Ukrainian Armed Forces “for assistance to the military” from General Valerii Zaluzhnyi [2023]
  On September 24, 2023 in recognition of the work of Nova Ukraine I received the state award “for assistance to the military” from the Armed Forces of Ukraine Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

• 🎖️ The Order of Merit III degree from the President of Ukraine [2023]
  On September 4, 2023 the work of Nova Ukraine has been recognized by the the President Zelenskyy with the state award, The Order of Merit: “For a significant personal contribution to the strengthening of interstate cooperation, support of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, popularization of the Ukrainian state in the world, I decree: To award the Order of Merit III degree to Korkuna Ostap — director, co-founder of the Ukrainian non-profit organization “Nova Ukraine”, United States of America”

• Finalist, TopCoder Open (one of 12 finalists) [2009]

• 🏅 Gold Medal, ACM ICPC [2008]
  Together with Vasyl Biletskyy (team member and a coach) and Ruslan Babilya we represented Lviv National University at the ACM ICPC World Finals (the most prestigious student competition in competitive programming). We were one of the top 4 teams to receive the gold medals — first time in history of Ukrainian teams.

• 1st place, ACM ICPC SEERC (South Eastern European Contest) [2007]

• 6th place, ACM ICPC SEERC (South Eastern European Contest) [2006]

• Various local, national and international student competitions in ACM ICPC [2005-2008]

Other #

T1D #

My son Marko has Type 1 Diabetes since he was 2 years old. Our family actively uses technology (including open source community built apps) to simplify the diabetes management and make the life of our son and our lives easier. We build and use DIY Loop and Nightscout. I also use and contribute to Loop Follow.

I’m a practical user and enthusiast of diabetes tech. Feel free to reach out to me if you also have a child with T1D.

Patents #

See Patents section.

Talks #

For my public talks see Talks section.

Press #

For my interviews in press, see Press section.

Contact #

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