Vadim
Akhmetov
Profile
Data Scientist with a solid mathematical foundation and extensive experience applying predictive modeling, data processing and data mining to complex business problems. Actively engaged in the Python open-source community, with a strong interest in deep learning and its practical applications.
Experience
Team Lead, Data Science — Digital Finance International, Belgrade
MLOps on ClearML: infrastructure for model deployment to production with monitoring and alerting. Scoring models for microfinance and installment-plan organizations, from proof of concept to production maintenance and model evolution. Lead a team of four data scientists: task decomposition, development planning, mentoring.
Senior Data Scientist — RANEPA (part-time), Moscow
Multi-service ML applications with a FastAPI backend. Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system for historical documents of the 17th–19th centuries. Interactive educational web applications on Streamlit.
Senior Data Scientist — Ozon, Moscow
Recommendation algorithms for short videos (OzonMoments). ETL on Spark scheduled with Airflow. Video embeddings from deep learning models powering a real-time interest engine. Session-based recommendations with DSSM, improving engagement metrics.
Senior Data Scientist — Rosbank, Moscow
Credit scoring quality: photo scoring for probability of default, OCR for property-rights documents, default scoring on transactional data, external anti-fraud, Auto-ML. Led a team of three data scientists.
Data Scientist — Sberbank, Moscow
Data markup aggregation, employee attrition models, headcount forecasting, OCR models (segmentation, text detection, text recognition), face defect detection.
Computer Vision Engineer — Algomost Ltd., Moscow
Classical and neural video analysis algorithms for manufacturing process automation.
Teacher / Project Manager — Educational Center «Sirius», Sochi
- Safety compliance monitoring: helmet detection with pose estimation and OpenCV color filtering.
- Python and IoT: students built a web service (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Arduino) monitoring pipe sensor signals.
- Computer vision: YOLOv3-based cucumber detection guiding a CNC harvester.
Education
RUDN University, Moscow — PhD (in progress)
RUDN University, Moscow — Master, 2020
RUDN University, Moscow — Bachelor, 2018