Kirill Igumenshchev is a founder and applied AI/ML practitioner based in Berkeley with a decade of experience building data-driven products, from white‑box credit models to LLM-focused infrastructure. He repeatedly spins early-stage ventures—privacy compliance workshops, serverless scorecard systems, crypto onramps, and DAO-governed model training platforms—into pragmatic, production-ready solutions that emphasize explainability, scale, and governance. His background spans rigorous academic research in semi-classical quantum dynamics to hands-on engineering: automated SQL-first ML pipelines, NLP, feature engineering, and custom model training/serving. Notably, he designed methods that extract interpretable features from black‑box models and has implemented machine learning pipelines that run entirely in SQL for rapid, permission‑light deployment. Curious and contrarian, he pairs deep technical craft with product instincts and enjoys discussing startups, data, and algorithmic strategy.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
certificate English as a second language, certificate English as a second language at Rochester Institute of Technology
Coursera
Udacity
PhD Chemistry, PhD Chemistry at University of Rochester
Molecular and Biological Physics, Molecular and Biological Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Kirill Igumenshchev - Founder at Pearls of Wisdom Labs, Inc.