Ilija Lalkovski
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at Talnets
North Macedonia
Summary
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Top SchoolIlija Lalkovski is a serial entrepreneur and AI leader with a decade of experience turning data and machine learning research into production solutions for enterprises and the sports industry. As Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Talnets and Head of Data Analytics & ML at Sigoor AG, he focuses on making hidden football talent discoverable through AI-driven analytics. He previously scaled Web Factory from a four-person startup to an 80+ employee regional leader, delivering BI, analytics, and ML projects for clients across the UK, USA, and Japan. Hands-on across stacks—from Ruby on Rails backends and iOS apps to AWS-powered real-time systems—he combines product instinct with rigorous model evaluation and improvement. Ilija’s background building one of the earliest GPS run-tracking apps and his ongoing mission to democratize sports scouting highlight a consistent pattern: practical innovation that bridges research and real-world impact. Based in North Macedonia, he brings entrepreneurial grit, technical depth, and a track record of shipping data-driven products at scale.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - Skopje
Github Skills (9)
sports-data7
deep-learning3
visualization3
computer-vision3
object-detection3
cron1
deep-neural-networks1
scheduler1
golang1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WebFactoryMk/bike_index
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
All the code for the Bike Index, because we love you
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 2 months
bikeindex
Pendulibrium/ai-visual-storytelling-seq2seq
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 1 push, 2 issues in 4 months
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