Jun 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Reaktor, a global technology company that designs and builds category-defining digital
• products and services.
• Established a data science function for Alawwal Bank, assembled and trained the team,
• built the ML infrastructure, and launched several ML projects, including recommendation
• systems for the bank's app.
• Developed a chat bot for facility management at Dubai’s key startup accelerator, Area
• 2071.

Aug 2017 – May 2018 · 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Majid Al Futtaim, a conglomerate owning shopping malls, retail, and hotels across the Middle
• East, Africa and Asia.
• Developed a promotion optimization framework for 375 Carrefour’s stores in 15 countries
• operated by Majid Al Futtaim (770K+ daily customers).
• Designed an A/B testing framework for offline retail based on the synthetic control
• method, leading to significant merchandising savings and enhancing the efficiency of
• promotional activities across Majid Al Futtaim’s retail network.

Aug 2016 – May 2017 · 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Noon, the leading e-commerce platform and digital marketplace in the United Arab Emirates.
• Implemented a pick-path optimization project for Noon’s offline warehouses storing tens
• of millions of SKUs.
• Developed the personalization and recommendation systems for Noon’s app.

May 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Mail.Ru Group (later re-branded as VK), Russia’s largest internet company owning one of the
• world’s biggest tech ecosystems for Russian-speaking users with services reaching over 95% of
• the Russian internet audience.
• Created the deep learning technology behind Artisto, the world's first app to apply artistic
• styles to videos. The app reached the 2nd position in the top-free charts of the US App
• Store and Google Play.
• Led data science initiatives for optimizing ad targeting (advertising revenue is the main
• source of the company’s growth. In 2016, it had increased by 26% vs 2015 to $240 mn).
• Led deep learning R&D for Search Mail.Ru, Russia’s third most popular search engine at
• that time (around 40 mn MAU).

Oct 2010 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Research and development of Optical Character Recognition library.
• Neural networks, machine learning, computer vision.

Apr 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Kaliningrad Region, Russian Federation

• Design and development architecture of application from beginning (UML, Enterprise Architect, .net, c#, ms sql server, wpf, devexpress)
• Math programming (regression analysis, clusterization)

Nov 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kaliningrad Region, Russian Federation

• - web development