Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer and Data Scientist with over 15 years of technical expertise spanning backend architecture, machine learning (NLP, CV, Predictive Analytics), and technical leadership. Proven track record of architecting high-throughput data pipelines, training state-of-the-art linguistic and computer vision models, and leading cross-functional engineering teams. Extensive experience in both startups (co-founding two ventures) and mature SaaS platforms, specializing in building high-availability IoT fleet systems, clinical decision engines, and AI-driven SEO tools.

Work Experience

Technical Engineering Lead & Senior Data Scientist

PosiTrace
Dec 2023 – Present
Burnaby, BC, Canada
  • Lead the development, maintenance, and optimization of core backend services and microservices for a high-throughput fleet management and GPS tracking platform.
  • Spearhead architectural decisions, improving system scalability and data-processing efficiency for real-time vehicle telemetry streams.
  • Manage system infrastructure and updates, implementing containerization (Docker) and cloud optimization strategies that reduced operational overhead.
  • Pioneer and enforce strict cybersecurity protocols and API access controls (OAuth2/JWT) across internal and external tools.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and intermediate software engineers, establishing robust code-review guidelines and increasing team sprint velocity.

Senior Software Engineer & Data Scientist

PosiTrace
Nov 2022 – Dec 2023
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
  • Designed and implemented complex backend services using Python, Go, and Ruby on Rails to process and analyze massive streams of vehicle IoT data.
  • Built big data pipelines using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Parquet data formats to enable rapid queries and historical reporting for thousands of active devices.
  • Developed message queue and background worker systems (RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis) to handle asynchronous notification and ingestion pipelines.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional product teams to translate business logistics requirements into performant technical solutions.

Chief Executive Officer, Data Scientist & Lead Researcher

Machinae Albae LLC
Jul 2021 – Nov 2022
Voronezh, Russia
  • Directed overall company operations while actively leading R&D efforts in conversational AI, NLP, and computer vision systems.
  • Architected and built PlayLy, a computer vision application for football match analysis. Designed the data pipelines and implemented player detection/tracking using YOLO, DeepSORT, ResNet-18, and OpenPose.
  • Led research in conversational systems and NLP classification pipelines for enterprise customer communication.

Co-Founder & Lead Data Scientist

AiForSeo
Oct 2018 – Mar 2022
Remote
  • Co-founded and designed the architecture of an AI-driven service for site content analysis and search engine optimization.
  • Implemented NLP pipelines utilizing transformer models (BERT, RoBERTa) to analyze semantic content and optimize for search engines.
  • Deployed the production services on AWS, ensuring highly scalable API endpoints.
  • Awarded an Honorable Mention at the 2021 GO Global Awards for innovation in SEO technology.

Data Scientist, Researcher & Python Developer

Mitlabs LLC
Jan 2020 – Jul 2021
Voronezh, Russia
  • Team Lead & DB Architect (Grainmonitor): Developed WhatsApp Chatbot APIs (Flask, RabbitMQ, MSSQL) for a bulk commodity transaction platform; promoted to Team Lead.
  • Legal NLP Developer (LegalRuModels): Scraped legal corpora and trained domain-specific language models (ELECTRA, RoBERTa, Longformer) from scratch using AWS SageMaker; achieved contract clause classification using RandomForest.
  • Conversational AI Engineer (Chatbot Mitlabs): Developed a natural-language chatbot using transformer models, intent recognition algorithms (K-Means), and FAISS vector search.
  • Data Scraper & Analyst (Grain): Built web scraping pipelines to extract and process public grain market data, predicting prices using RandomForest and time-series forecasting.
  • Backend Developer (Da Signa): Developed Python backends for a mobile clinical decision-support application facilitating safe medical prescriptions.
  • Audio ML Engineer (DIID): Integrated speech-to-text models (Vosk) and slot-filling algorithms for automated CRM auditing and compliance verification in call centers.

Co-Founder & Backend Developer

MutuAlies
Oct 2019 – Sep 2020
Voronezh, Russia
  • Developed an automated contract-generation chatbot utilizing WhatsApp API, RandomForest classification, and Named Entity Recognition (NER).
  • Won the Russian National Stage of the World Startup Cup 2020 for technical execution and business model.

Head of Service Center

Paritet LLC
Feb 2013 – Jan 2018
Voronezh, Russia
  • Managed a technical service team responsible for the deployment, configuration, and integration of medical software (HIS/RIS, PACS, DICOM) and imaging systems (CR, DR).
  • Collaborated with hospital IT departments to ensure seamless system interoperability and compliance with healthcare data transmission standards.
  • Trained clinical staff and engineers on medical equipment operations, reducing operator errors.

Medical Engineer

Paritet LLC
Apr 2010 – Feb 2013
Voronezh, Russia
  • Installed, calibrated, and repaired complex medical diagnostic equipment.
  • Configured medical imaging software, ensuring accurate transmission and storage of DICOM files.

Selected Projects & Ventures

PlayLy

R&D

Research and development of an AI application for football match analysis. Designed the CV tracking architecture and pipelines.

YOLO DeepSORT OpenPose OpenCV

AiForSeo

Founder Award Winner

AI-powered service that processes website content utilizing NLP transformer architectures to optimize text for voice search engines.

BERT RoBERTa AWS

Grainmonitor

Tech Lead

B2B interaction platform for bulk grain market players. Built multi-threaded WhatsApp API integrations and managed databases.

Flask-Admin RabbitMQ MSSQL

LegalRuModels

Researcher

Trained domain-specific linguistic models from scratch on AWS SageMaker for legal document scraping, indexing, and clause classification.

ELECTRA Longformer SageMaker

MutuAlies

Founder 1st Place

WhatsApp conversational bot utilizing Named Entity Recognition (NER) and RandomForest to automatically generate contracts based on dialogue.

NER RandomForest WhatsApp API

Speaking Engagements & Webinars

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OpenTalkAI Conference (2021)

Presented "Themis and Transformers", demonstrating the training and deployment of custom transformers (BERT/Longformer) for legal applications.

🎙️

ALLInTop SEO Conference (2021)

Delivered a talk on utilizing deep linguistic models to solve modern SEO problems in voice search querying.

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AI in SEO Webinar (YouTube)

Conducted a technical session on using PyTorch and transformer pipelines for text quality and relevance scoring. Watch Webinar

Honors & Awards

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Honorable Mention – GO Global Awards (2021)

Awarded to the AiForSeo project for technical innovation in search engine content processing.

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Winner (Russian Stage) – World Startup Cup (2020)

Awarded to MutuAlies for creating a conversational contract-generation engine.