Maksim Belousov is a co-founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and leading research-to-production efforts from Manchester, UK. He holds a PhD in NLP and machine learning and blends deep academic rigour with hands-on startup execution, having led teams at Recourse AI and served as interim CTO at DeepCognito. His work spans strategy, product management, responsible AI and large language models, with prior roles in postdoctoral research and teaching focused on natural language systems and text mining. Maksim has practical experience shipping applied computer vision and OCR solutions earlier in his career, demonstrating a strong engineering foundation across ML and software engineering. He’s comfortable navigating both research collaborations with NHS institutions and the commercial pressures of scaling AI products, often translating complex models into usable, accountable features. Quietly, he pairs technical leadership with teaching experience, which informs his emphasis on clear documentation and reproducible ML practices.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Computer Science, PhD Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Computer Science at The University of Manchester
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