Alexander Ponomarenko
Scientific Advisor at National Research University — Higher School of Economics
Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
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Top SchoolAlexander Ponomarenko is a scientific advisor and computer scientist with 11+ years applying optimization, machine learning, and metric-space search across industry and academia. Currently advising Wildberries and lecturing at HSE, he blends hands-on ML engineering with algorithmic research and a track record of scientific publications and prototypes. His experience spans recommendation and retrieval systems, large-scale receipt analytics, vector search optimization, and logistics forecasting, often turning loosely specified problems into practical systems. A PhD-level researcher who has led teams and taught advanced courses, he is comfortable explaining complex ideas through simple examples and approaching problems from unconventional angles. Notably, he has bridged theory and product in roles from MERA Labs to Workato and Huawei, shipping prototypes that translate metric-space theory into real-world search and prediction services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics faculty, Master's degree Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics faculty at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)Lyceum 40Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
English, Russian
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Github Skills (54)
kubernetes10
oltp10
databases10
distributed-systems10
paxos10
scale-out10
overlapping10
sql10
yugabytedb10
raft10
cpp10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aponom84/lpam-clustering
Jul 2018 - May 2021
Overlapping Communities Detection in Network
Contributions:42 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
outlier-detectionmachine-learningcommunitiesclusteringcommunities-detection
aponom84/MetrizedSmallWorld
Aug 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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