Vadim
Akhmetov

Belgrade / Moscow
golden312va@gmail.com

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

September 2023 — present

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

June 2022 — present

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 Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system for historical documents of the 17th–19th centuries.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

June 2022 — September 2023

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

November 2020 — June 2022

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

November 2019 — November 2020

Data markup aggregation, employee attrition models, headcount forecasting, OCR models (segmentation, text detection, text recognition), face defect detection.

Computer Vision Engineer — Algomost Ltd., Moscow

April 2020 — July 2020

Classical and neural video analysis algorithms for manufacturing process automation.

Teacher / Project Manager — Educational Center «Sirius», Sochi

December 2019, February 2020, April 2021
  • 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

Skills

Machine LearningDeep LearningPythonSQLComputer Vision OpenCVNLPInformation RetrievalTime SeriesRecommender Systems DockerPySparkMLOps / ClearMLFastAPI