Sergey Kolesnikov
Head Of Applied Research at Shadow Startup
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Kolesnikov is Head of Applied Research in Singapore with nine years of experience bridging academic deep learning and industrial AI, specializing in reinforcement learning and sequential decision making. He previously led AI research at Tinkoff and now heads applied research at Shadow Startup, translating novel algorithms into production systems. As creator and maintainer of Catalyst and Animus, he pairs open-source leadership with pragmatic engineering — even contributing test coverage to widely used projects like Kaggle's python docker image to improve reproducibility. Trained at MIPT in mathematics and computer science, Sergey blends rigorous theoretic grounding with hands-on delivery across startups, banks, and research labs to move RL from prototype to product.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (7)
unittesting10
unittest10
pytorch10
unittests10
python10
test-automation10
numpy8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kaggle/docker-python
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Kaggle Python docker image
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Sergey's commits primarily focus on creating and updating test files within the `tests` directory. These tests cover functionality within the `catalyst` library, including version verification and the execution of an MNIST example with PyTorch. The user implemented and modified tests to ensure the correct behavior of the library, specifically focusing on the training and evaluation process of a neural network model. The commits reflect an iterative approach, adding new tests and refining existing ones to improve test coverage.
kagglepythondocker-imagedata-sciencedocker
Scitator/papers
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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