Denis Shilov
Founder & CEO at Synthical
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Shilov is a founder-led AI product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building startups and shipping applied research into production. Based in Paris, he’s currently CEO of White Circle focused on AI safety for businesses and co-founder/CEO of Synthical, an AI discovery platform used by 20,000+ scientists including teams at NVIDIA, OpenAI, and DeepMind. Prior roles include leading product and engineering at Nim to rapidly close feature gaps in generative video, senior engineering at Deepnote where growth experiments cut ad spend materially, and invite-only safety research at Anthropic probing high-stakes jailbreaks. He started multiple ventures—Phraser reached ~500k users and Facel earned design awards—demonstrating a pattern of fast iteration, product-market learning, and resilience. Denis pairs a data-science and applied-math background with hands-on technical leadership, uniquely blending safety research, growth engineering, and founder-level execution.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Information Science at Higher School of EconomicsLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (200)
python-client10
generative10
theory10
assistive-technology10
text-mining10
statistical-learning9
dataclasses9
pdf-viewer9
paper9
api9
generative-art9
apply9
science9
api-client9
structural-variation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
facel-tech/facel-tech.github.io
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:465 commits, 460 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
mixeden/hello-hello
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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