Lila Tretikov () (born Olga (Lyalya) Tretyakova, russian: Ольга (Ляля) Третьяко́ва, January 25, 1978) is a

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engineer and manager.

Early life and education

Tretikov was born in Moscow,

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. Her father is a mathematician, and her mother was a filmmaker."Women band together, make inroads into tech"
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'', November 27, 2012. After moving to New York City at age 15, she learned English while waitressing and attended the

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, but left before completing her degree. Her

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were computer science and art, and she researched

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

Career

In 1999, Tretikov began working as a

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in California, where she co-authored several software patents and was a specialist in

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. Tretikov started her professional career at

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as an engineer at the Sun-Netscape Alliance, where she worked on the

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server. She then founded GrokDigital, a technology marketing company, and was later appointed chief information officer and vice president of engineering at SugarCRM Inc. In 2012, she was a

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bronze winner in the category for "Female Executive of the YearBusiness Services11 to 2,500 EmployeesComputer Hardware & Software". She has co-authored several patents in intelligent

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and dynamic language applications. Tretikov was appointed executive director of the

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in May 2014 in succession to Sue Gardner and took up the post on June 1, 2014. She had edited Wikipedia only once before her appointment. Tretikov resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation as a result of the WMF's controversial Knowledge Engine project and disagreements with the staff, with her last day being March 31, 2016. She was succeeded by

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in March 2016. On March 16, 2016, it was announced that Tretikov had been invited by the

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to join its

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community. Tretikov is also on the boards of OpenEd and

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, and joined the board of directors of

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in March 2021. She joined Microsoft Corporation in 2018, and currently is listed as its Corporate Vice President & Deputy Chief Technology Officer.

References

External links

* User:LilaTretikov, user profile on

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Early life and education

Career

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