Leonid Kholkine
Head Of Research And Development at SPRINT - Sport Physical activity and health Research & INnovation CenTer
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolLeonid Kholkine is a researcher-turned-technology leader with a PhD in Machine Learning applied to sports and a decade of experience turning AI research into production-ready products and services. As Head of R&D and Principal at DareData and co-founder of Ripply and Data Makers Fest, he blends hands-on engineering, product thinking, and open innovation to help organizations extract value from complex data ecosystems. His background spans applied ML across tabular, graph, image, video and time-series data, GNN-based recommendation systems, and building coach-facing sports products from his PhD work. He has led data science competitions and communities (World Data League, Data Lead Club) that connect city-scale challenges with practical skills, and previously directed engineering for health-tech at Tonic App. Comfortable operating across research, engineering and operations, he often plays the bridge role scaling prototypes into real-world tools while mentoring multicultural teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of AntwerpMaster of Engineering (MEng) Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Telecommunications Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoHigh School Technological & Arts, High School Technological & Arts at Escola Secundária José Estêvão
English, Portuguese, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
47reputation
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Github Skills (20)
websocket-client8
java7
websocket7
analytics-tracking7
wss6
wifi6
openwrt6
android6
sdk6
hostapd6
linux6
mixpanel6
netty5
amazon4
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DataSciencePortugal/hackacity2019
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
DataSciencePortugal/DSPTDay
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch in 1 day
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