Alexey Grigorev
A software engineer with focus on AI & ML. I can take any idea in raw form, validate it and bring it to production. Running DataTalks.Club and teaching AI and Data to 100k+ people.
Summary
- 16 years in software and 14 years in ML
- Running teams of agents 24/7
- Top 100 among all GitHub users in number of commits
- Teaching AI and data to 100k+ people
- Experience in running production systems
- Mentoring and leadership experience
- Books author, technical reviewer and speaker
- Kaggle master and competition winner
Professional Experience
Founder and Community Manager
DataTalks.Club
Lead an online community for data professionals with 96,000+ Slack members and 130,000+ newsletter subscribers. Create free educational programs including ML Zoomcamp, Data Engineering Zoomcamp, MLOps Zoomcamp, LLM Zoomcamp and AI Dev Tools Zoomcamp, reaching 100,000+ students worldwide. Host weekly podcast interviews with industry experts, organize community events, and maintain open-source course materials on GitHub.
Senior → Lead → Principal Data Scientist
OLX Group
Led the development of OLX Europe’s internal ML platform,
standardizing how data scientists and ML engineers build,
deploy, and operate ML models. Managed a cross-functional
“special forces” MLOps team (platform + ML engineering),
owning system architecture, design, and end-to-end delivery
of new capabilities.
Contributed significantly to the DS/ML community through
mentoring and upskilling programs, organizing hackathons
and learnathons, serving as lead editor of the OLX tech
blog, and representing OLX at conferences, meetups, and
within the Prosus group.
Led multiple high-impact initiatives, including a large-scale duplicate-image detection system covering 95% of OLX inventory (processing ~250 images/sec) and a production inference infrastructure for image-based models capable of serving ~200 images/sec.
Summary of Prior Experience:
Data Scientist / Engineer
Simplaex
Data Scientist
Searchmetrics
Research Assistant
DIMA Group at TU Berlin
Data Scientist
Small Software Factory
Software Engineer
UBS via Luxoft
Software Engineer
Intech for Tele2
Team Lead (Java)
Open source project JTalks.org
Software Engineer
Amazon Robotics via Auriga
Research Assistant
BU, Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Assistant
FESA, Math Simulations Lab
Books
Manning Publications, 2021
Packt Publishing, 2017
Competitions
Education
IT4BI Master Program
Joint Master program by ULB (Belgium), UFRT (France) and TU Berlin (Germany)
Specialization: Large-Scale Business Intelligence
Information Systems and Technologies
Far Eastern State Academy
Faculty of Mathematics, Information Technologies and Engineering