Denis Volkhonskiy
SWE Agent Advocate
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Volkhonskiy is a seasoned AI engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience spanning academic research and startup leadership. He holds a PhD in Generative AI, with a thesis on 3D and video data generation, and co-authored eight papers with 500+ citations, underscoring a solid foundation in vision and generative models. As Lead AI Engineer and co-founder at memyard.com, he built end-to-end ML solutions—from on-device body-pose recognition to a cloud-based data-labelling platform that accelerates annotation fivefold, and later shifted to training LLMs on customer data after a strategic pivot. His track record includes founding ML Prior, which aimed to apply ML to scientific writing, and engineering roles at Huawei and Parallels, blending research with production-grade systems. He currently serves as SWE Agent Advocate at Nebius Academy, dividing time between advancing AI tooling and empowering teams with practical, scalable AI. Based in London, he brings a global perspective from collaborating across startups and major tech players to deliver robust AI-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision, Generative Models, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision, Generative Models at Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologyMaster's degree, Data science, 8.8 out of 10, Master's degree, Data science, 8.8 out of 10 at Higher School of EconomicsMathematics and Computer Science, 4.75 out of 5, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.75 out of 5 at Yandex School of Data AnalysisBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, Russian
Github Skills (30)
pose-detection10
human-computer-interaction8
google-api7
datasets7
human-pose-estimation7
machine-learning7
azerothcore7
1c7
computer-vision7
swift6
human-activity-recognition6
pose-estimation6
pii6
ios6
bitrix5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dvolkhonskiy/_dvolkhonskiy.github.io
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 53 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rulerhostedperfectsitesportfolios
quickseo-io/quickindex-python
Feb 2024 - May 2024
A Python script to quickly index your pages in Google Search
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 months
google-apiindexing-apiseo
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