The 2015 Tech 50: Shawn Edwards and Vlad Kliatchko

迈克尔·布隆伯格逮捕了他于1981年创立的财务信息帝国的掌舵后，迈克尔·布隆伯格成立了由自己组成的执行委员会;Peter Grauer，该公司董事长以来彭博自2001年首次为纽约市市长竞选;和联合创始人和长期全球金融产品和服务负责人Thomas Secunda（过去三年的第1号）。这是一个CTOShawn Edwardsand global head of R&DVlad Kliatchkoreport. They are both 46-year-old, 12-yearBloombergveterans who fit the mold of a collaborative, agile, open-plan-office culture and finish each other’s sentences, though in different accents. The Russian-born Kliatchko has mathematics and computer science degrees from St. Petersburg State University; as head of R&D since 2012, he oversees the bulk of Bloomberg’s 4,000-plus technologists, who are dispersed globally, including in a San Francisco space that opened in May. “Ability to find talent is the only constraint” to adding staff faster, Kliatchko says. Edwards, who has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University and headed R&D before the CTO office was formed in 2008, runs smaller teams focused on “advanced, exciting, forward-looking opportunities,” lately on the analytics frontier in machine learning and natural language processing. Their division of labor is “a traditional CIO/CTO split,” Edwards explains, but is “highly fluid,” as are movements of people between their teams. “Technology leadership is part of the culture,” Kliatchko says, as it has been since Bloomberg invented early network protocols and other systems that couldn’t be bought off the shelf. Today the company — even as it prototypes keyboard designs with 3-D printers — blends in-house innovation with participation in such open-source communities as Linux, OpenStack and Solr. “That’s a big change in our profile the past several years,” says Edwards. Secunda calls Edwards and Kliatchko "great technologists" and stresses "they are leading a team of more than 4,000 great technologists who epitomize our culture of constant innovation."

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