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I make AI
behave.

AI / ML engineer with 6+ years across production computer vision, multi-agent and LLM systems, RAG and agentic pipelines, and security-focused developer tools. I ship code, papers, and products.

AGENTIC AI MULTI-AGENT RAG MCP COMPUTER VISION AI TECH LEAD FOUNDING ENGINEER
184★ on GitHub $46M cost savings +6% SOTA model $6M funding contribution $1M infra cost cut 50M-image dataset 4.0 GPA · M.S. AI IEEE PIMRC 2023 Fulbright Scholar 3× faster matching −56% toxicity +35% user retention 70% editing automated 5× content speedup 4,500+ communities IDAO '20 silver medal

Selected
work.

Open-source · Apache-2.0 · Go

Greywall

★ 184 · CONTRIBUTOR

A container-free, deny-by-default sandbox for AI coding agents. Kernel-enforced filesystem, network, and syscall isolation for Linux (Landlock + seccomp) and macOS.

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Consulting · Consumer AI

Clockout

AI / ML CONSULTANT

Built consumer-AI systems on the platform: the AI-introductions matching engine and the AI-based user-approval system behind the "no spam, no endless scrolling" promise. Live consumer app with 4,500+ communities.

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Open-source · Core Developer

Packrat

Peer-to-peer .wacz archive viewer. I drove the WebTorrent integration, in-archive search, magnet-link sharing, and OPFS browser-local storage.

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Research · IEEE PIMRC 2023

Deep Dual Path Autoencoders

Map Estimation with Deep Dual Path Autoencoders and Skip Connection Learning. First-author publication; code open-source at radio-map-estimation-public (13★).

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Code I've
shipped to the public.

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The numbers I'll
defend in an interview.

$46M

HERBICIDE COST AVOIDED

Built a transformer that beat Blue River Technology's production model by +6% mAP and was selected as the new state of the art. The mAP gain mapped to ~$46M of herbicide savings in Iowa fields alone.

$6M+

FUNDING CONTRIBUTION

Shipped Grounding DINO + Segment Anything natural-language object detection at Craftwork (contributed to the $4M round + YC launch). Augmented Reality room-sizing brought in an additional $2M.

$1M

GPU INFRA COST CUT

Built a computer-vision multi-camera person re-identification algorithm at Kryptonite that cut ~$1M of GPU cost. Trained SwAV / SimCLR self-supervised representations over a 50M-image Instagram dataset for a +4% retrieval gain.

FASTER MATCHING · CONVERGE LABS

Co-founder & Head of AI at Converge Labs. Shipped AI-driven matching (3× faster), real-time sentiment moderation (−56% toxicity, +35% retention), AI video generation (70% of editing automated), voice-onboarding (+55% retention).

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The work
behind the numbers.

IEEE · 31 Oct 2023 · Peer-reviewed

Radio Map Estimation with
Deep Dual Path Autoencoders & Skip Connection Learning

Predicting radio power at every location and frequency in a 2D area from sparse measurements — relevant to fingerprint localization, user-cell association, MIMO power control, and UAV path planning. The paper introduces the Dual Path Autoencoder (separating environmental and signal information) and Skip Connection Autoencoders (increasing encoder-decoder information flow), and benchmarks them against state-of-the-art CNN autoencoders across sampling rates and architecture sizes.

DEEP LEARNING AUTOENCODERS SIGNAL PROCESSING UAV · MIMO

+ ADDITIONAL RESEARCH 8 conference papers published in the BMSTU scientific journal during my undergraduate research on neural-network-based object detection, classification approaches for Kaggle, control-signal formation from frame streams, pattern recognition for mobile autonomous platforms, and virtual-camera modeling in MATLAB (regional and Russian national scientific and technical conferences).

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01

Brainwave Image Reconstruction

UNT · Aug–Dec 2022

End-to-end brain-wave → image reconstruction using a vision transformer and a Parti-style decoder. M.S. thesis area.

VIT · PYTORCH
02

Segformer Crop/Weed Segmentation

Blue River Technology · May–Jul 2022

Transformer-based image segmentation that outperformed the production model and is the candidate for the new SOTA in production. Underpinned the +6% mAP / ~$46M herbicide-savings result.

SEGFORMER · PYTORCH
03

Knowledge Distillation for Crop/Weed

Blue River Technology · Jul–Aug 2022

Trained a high-accuracy teacher to label unlabeled data, then fine-tuned the smaller production model on the combined set. Statistically significant accuracy lift, confirming the distillation pipeline works on real-world agricultural imagery.

DISTILLATION · PYTORCH
04

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Kryptonite · Sep–Dec 2020

Research on the best architecture for learning feature representations from unlabeled images. SimCLR (Google) and SwAV (Facebook) over ResNet, ResNeXt, EfficientNet backbones. Downstream: image retrieval and object detection.

SIMCLR · SWAV
05

Multicamera Person Re-Identification

Kryptonite · Mar–Aug 2021

N camera views, partial overlap, all subjects in the same clothes — so no deep-learning crutch. Used intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters to associate identities across views. Underpinned the ~$1M GPU-cost reduction at Kryptonite.

OPENCV · GEOMETRY
06

Hybrid Classical / Quantum CNN + MCTS for Chess

UNT · Jan–Apr 2022

Fundamentals-of-AI class project pushed past the assignment: a hybrid classical / quantum convolutional network paired with Monte Carlo Tree Search for chess move evaluation.

QUANTUM · MCTS
07

Humana Mays Healthcare Analytics

UNT · Sep–Dec 2021

Gradient-boosting model over ~400 features (plus engineered ones) to predict COVID vaccination status — used to target Humana's outreach. Ranked 16th of ~700 teams.

GBM · CASE COMP
08

Satellite Position Prediction · IDAO 2020

idao.world · Jan–Feb 2020

Predicted satellite position and velocity at the International Data Analysis Olympiad. Gradient boosting plus system-performance optimization — landed 2nd place in the online round.

★ 2ND / WORLD
09

Sex / Language Audio Classifier

Kryptonite · Aug–Sep 2020

End-to-end multi-label CNN over audio mel-spectrograms. Two heads on a shared backbone: 6-way language classification (EN / RU / DE / FR / ES / AR) and binary speaker-sex classification.

CNN · AUDIO

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What I
argue for.

AI Safety México · Apr 2026 Speaker · 91 attendees

Who controls your
agent's context?

Talk at the AI Safety México meetup (co-hosted with Janeth Valdivia and Angel Tenorio) on data sovereignty for AI agents: who owns the context an agent runs in, where the data goes, and why the security layer around your AI tools should be independent of the vendor selling you the model. Connected the LATAM AI safety community to the Greywall sandbox work.

AI SAFETY DATA SOVEREIGNTY AGENTIC AI LATAM
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AI CDMX · Mexico City Speaker

Who Pressed
Enter?

Talk at the AI CDMX community on agentic AI, the accountability question behind autonomous systems, and what changes when you stop being the one pressing Enter.

AGENTIC AI COMMUNITY TALK
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YPWACC AI Panel · 2023 Panelist

AI, Work, and the next decade of jobs.

Panel on AI's impact on industries, workflow automation, the ethics of AI-generated content, and continuous learning across generations.

AI ETHICS FUTURE OF WORK PANEL
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Receipts.

2021–2023

M.S., Artificial Intelligence

University of North Texas · GPA 4.0 / 4.0 · Fulbright Scholar.

2016–2020

B.S., Computer Science / Autonomous Systems

Bauman Moscow State Technical University · GPA 3.94 / 4.0 · Rector's Scholarship (top 5%).

Honors & Awards

  • IEEE PIMRC Publication (2023). First-author paper on deep dual-path autoencoders for radio-map estimation.
  • Edmund S. Muskie Professional Fellowship, Cultural Vistas (May 2022). U.S. Department of State program for emerging Fulbright leaders; placed with Blue River Technology.
  • Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship, Institute of International Education (Aug 2021). ~4,000 awarded globally per year across 160+ countries.
  • 2nd place, International Data Analysis Olympiad (IDAO) — online round, Feb 2020. Satellite position and velocity prediction.
  • Yandex "Я-профи" AI Student Olympiad — prizewinner (Jan 2020).
  • Yandex "Я-профи" Big Data Student Olympiad — prizewinner (Jan 2020).
  • Yandex IT Winter School "Тебе Решать!" — 3rd place (Saint Petersburg, Jan 2020).
  • Rector's Scholarship, Bauman MSTU — top 5% of program.

Let's
ship something.

Open to senior IC, staff, founding-engineer, and product-engineering-lead roles in AI / ML, multi-agent infrastructure, agentic AI, computer vision, developer tools, and security-focused AI infrastructure.