Andrey Zharkov
Founding Engineer at Unreal Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrey Zharkov is a Founding Engineer and deep learning researcher with 10 years of experience building production-ready NLP and computer vision systems, currently developing GenAI-driven ad generation at Unreal Labs. He previously founded a stealth startup focused on generative video and storytelling and spent several years at Snap leading small teams to deliver diffusion and GAN-based mobile effects. His academic roots at MIPT underpin a strong research-to-product track record—publishing state-of-the-art work in barcode detection and improving OCR for CJK languages while teaching and mentoring ML courses. Andrey combines hands-on model engineering with product instincts, optimizing generative models for mobile and real-world constraints. He’s particularly interested in content generation and AGI, and has a habit of turning research ideas into lightweight, deployable solutions. Based in London, he blends startup grit with rigorous research training from MIPT and industry experience at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
pytorch10
text-segmentation10
python10
image-processing10
image-classification10
metric-learning10
machine-learning10
information-retrieval10
text-classification10
reinforcement-learning10
distributed-computing10
image-segmentation10
recommender-system10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
catalyst-team/gan
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Catalyst.GAN
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
deep-learningpytorchgancatalyst
asmekal/cs231n-seminars
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Seminars for CV course based on cs231n at abbyy
Contributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
pytorchdeep-learningseminarscomputer-visioncs231n
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