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Sergei Aleshkin
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$50/hr or $100,000/yr

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Principal Data & AI Architect

Data Architect
Available for hire
Years of experience
12+ years
Experience level
Principal
Available for
Full-time, Contract

Senior Data & AI Architect with 12+ years delivering end-to-end AI systems in enterprise environments - from initial discovery and gap analysis through hands-on PoC, demo engineering, pilot implementation, and production launch. Extensive experience working directly with business and technical stakeholders to identify requirements, translate them into AI architectures, and prove value before scaling. Deep expertise in agentic AI, GenAI/LLM pipelines, modern data platforms, and regulated-industry ML. Bilingual communicator equally at home in a technical whiteboard session and a C-suite strategy presentation.

Employment History

Algorithm Lead & Pre-Sales AI Architect at Dynamik Consultancy Current 2020 - Now
Sole AI/ML technical lead working alongside the sales team to deliver AI/ML solutions from concept to production. Architected multi-agent RAG platform, LLM evaluation infrastructure, ensemble forecasting systems, OR-Tools constrained scheduling engine, and two-tower retrieval systems. Presented AI architectures to C-level at 20+ enterprise organisations. Hired and led a team of 3 senior ML/data engineers.
Data Engineer & ML Lead at Zervant (Fintech SaaS) 2019 - 2021
Built the company's cloud-first ML data platform from scratch. Architected end-to-end streaming pipeline: Kinesis -> Snowflake -> PySpark -> dbt -> ML models. 10x cost reduction, latency from hours to real-time. Built credit scoring and recommendation engine. MLflow versioning + Airflow orchestration + automated retraining; A/B testing framework; Terraform IaC.
Data Scientist / ML Consultant at Dain Studios 2017 - 2019
Consulted enterprise clients on data strategy and ML adoption. Delivered predictive modeling, NLP pipelines, and analytics solutions. Worked with Python, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and cloud data infrastructure.
Data Scientist / Quantitative Analyst at AlfaBank / SberBank 2013 - 2017
Built credit risk scoring models, fraud detection pipelines, and customer segmentation systems for major Russian banks. Applied machine learning and statistical methods using Python, R, and SQL on large-scale financial datasets.

Education

Master of Economics at University of Trento, Italy 2011 - 2013
Applied Physics & Mathematics at MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) 2007 - 2010