Akiva Bacovcin
Head Of AI Research at Optionality
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAkiva Bacovcin is Head of AI Research based in Montreal with 12 years of experience designing and shipping ML and NLP systems that move rapidly from prototype to production. He builds practical AI tooling—most notably a no-code internal system that lets non-technical teams iterate LLM pipelines against proprietary databases in minutes—and has applied models to revenue prediction, medical image triage, and company similarity for financial benchmarking. Comfortable across the stack, he blends deep research (PhD in Linguistics) with full‑stack engineering, production ops, and SaaS feature design to scale high-throughput NLP workloads. He excels at translating linguistic and statistical insight into robust enterprise systems and often surfaces product-facing solutions that hide model complexity from end users.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Religious Translation, Master’s Degree, Religious Translation at Boston UniversitySemester Abroad, Semester Abroad at Rothberg International SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania
English, French, German, biblical hebrew, akkadian, sumerian, Arabic, Latin, Greek, hittite, old english, old irish, modern hebrew
Github Skills (5)
infer6
time-series2
corpus1
nlp1
tcp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bacovcin/lemmatised-parsed-corpora-historical-english
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
bacovcin/dissertation
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:128 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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