Oleg Okun

CEO

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany34 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a remote data science team across multiple locations.
Initiated and implemented Azure data architecture.
Supervised multiple academic theses and projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI expert with extensive experience in cloud computing and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceCloud ComputingData EngineeringDeep LearningNlpMachine LearningData AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBiometricsResearch And DevelopmentResearchSoftware Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceAzure Data FactoryAzure Data LakeAzure DatabricksAzure Machine LearningAzure SQL DBBig DataBioinformaticsBiometric AlgorithmsBook ReviewsBook WritingCComputer VisionConsulting

About

Team & People management: Experienced team lead capable of both technical and people management. Hired a team of professionals with diverse expertise and merged them into a single unit. Remotely managing a team scattered across Germany Applications: Solar energy analytics, intelligent text search and summarization, predictive maintenance, medical text analytics, credit scoring, marketing analytics, fraud detection, analysis of business value of external data sources, bioinformatics, biometrics, document image analysis Theory: AI, machine learning, data mining, statistics Cloud: Azure cloud platform and its services Big Data: Hadoop (Cascading), PySpark Deep Learning frameworks: Tensorflow (Python), Deeplearning4j (Java), Keras (Python) Tools: ElasticSearch, KNIME, Excel Programming: Python, Java, R, SQL, C, MATLAB

Experience

34 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Enpal b.v. (former enpal gmbh)

Data Science Team Lead

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Hamburg, Germany

Built from ground zero and remotely manage a Data Science team (5 data scientists) - team is distributed over 5 locations across Germany
Initiated the creation of a data ingestion & storage architecture in Azure (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL DB, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks), which has been implemented by the team in 2021
Working with team members to proactively adapt the Azure data architecture to changing circumstances, such as increasing data volume, new business needs, etc.
Helping a C-level manager to define team's quarterly OKRs aligned to company business goals
Supervising data-related support of my team to a BI team that delivers reports & dashboards to company senior management
Supervising and advising team members in implementing MVPs supporting business units with AI expertise and in presenting results to senior management
Supervised a MSc thesis work of one of the team members

Data ScienceAzure Data FactoryAzure Data LakeAzure SQL DBAzure Machine LearningAzure Databricks+1

Cognizant solutions gmbh

2 roles

Associate Director

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Hamburg Area, Germany

Developing academia-industry cooperation in Europe in various areas involving Deep Learning/Deep Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision/Image Processing.
Designing and developing business use cases (NLP, Deep Learning, PySpark)

Deep LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer VisionPySparkNLP

Chief Architect (Cognitive Computing)

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · Hamburg Area, Germany

Industrial research in applications of natural language processing (NLP) using deep learning neural networks
Cognitive computing consultancy
Machine learning solutions for big pharma, predictive maintenance and Internet of Things
Intelligent text search & summarization in large collections of electronic documents
Industrial use case development (automotive industry)

Natural Language ProcessingDeep LearningMachine LearningNLP

Kreditech holding ssl gmbh

Senior Data Scientist

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Hamburg Area, Germany

Machine learning based scoring of loan applicants.
Machine learning based analysis of business value of external data sources.
Machine learning based offline (TV-radio) marketing campaign analysis.
Time series analysis.
Fraud detection.
R, Excel, SQL.

Machine LearningFraud DetectionTime Series AnalysisSQLExcelData Analysis

Campanja

Senior AI Analyst

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Stockholm, Sweden

Responsible for design analytical (machine learning, statistics) methods and their implementation in Python to be deployed in paid search marketing software.

Machine LearningStatisticsPythonData Analysis

Smarttecco

CEO and Founder

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs · Malmo, Sweden

Business Analytics Consulting, including Data Mining and Statistics

Data MiningStatisticsBusiness AnalyticsData Analysis

Scandinavian region

Machine Learning Researcher and Intelligent Data Analysis Consultant

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Malmo, Sweden

Intelligent data analysis, including machine learning, data mining, statistics and their applications, e.g., such as bioinformatics, biometrics, ...
Thanks to successful defense of company interests at the past international standardization meeting held in Moscow in 2009, Precise Biometrics' fingerprint matching algorithm was admitted to the MINEX II test in 2010 and eventually got certified by NIST of USA.

Machine LearningData MiningStatisticsData Analysis

Precise biometrics

Head of Fingerprint Algorithms Research Group

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · Lund, Sweden

Supervised a research group and provided guidance on biometric algorithms to the group and the entire company
Acted as a senior advisor in two pan-European research projects involving the leading French and German smart card/e-chip companies and universities
Was a leading contributor to two 60-page reports for these projects
Represented the company in the Swedish and International standardization bodies and actively participated in standardization work
Contributed to the ISO/IEC 2nd CD 29164 (2009): “Information technology - Biometrics - Embedded BioAPI” standard draft
Set up the best practices of performance evaluation for biometric algorithms in the company and wrote an extensive report on these practices
Developed MATLAB software for biometric performance evaluation
Wrote a number of technical reports on the performance evaluation of the company's biometric solutions and test studies of various fingerprint sensors, involving statistical analysis of the obtained results

Biometric AlgorithmsPerformance EvaluationStatistical AnalysisBiometricsResearch and Development

University of oulu

Senior Researcher

Jan 1998 – Jan 2008 · 10 yrs · Oulu, Finland

Gave “Digital Image Processing” exercises for students of the University of Oulu
Proposed and gave the course “Support Vector Machines” for postgraduate students of the University of Oulu
Supervised MSc and PhD theses, served as a referee of PhD theses
Developed numerous machine learning, statistical and document image analysis algorithms and implemented them in MATLAB and C

Machine LearningDocument Image AnalysisStatisticsResearch

United institute of informatics problems

Junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher

Jan 1990 – Jan 1998 · 8 yrs · Minsk,Belarus

Developed numerous document image analysis algorithms and implemented them in C
Participated in commercial and research projects funded by Russian and Belarusian companies, EU, Soros and Belarusian funds

Document Image AnalysisCResearchSoftware Development