Maxim Afteniy
Senior Data Scientist & Partner
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Afteniy is a Senior Data Scientist and partner based in Helsinki with nine years of hands-on experience applying deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision to real-world products. He has driven ML work across industry and research settings—from speeding up Siri pipelines at Apple (reducing a two-week process to five hours) to deploying masked PPO with curriculum learning for industrial optimization projects. His background spans end-to-end engineering and research, including federated learning, model quantization, and multi-agent RL experiments performed at Nokia and Bell Labs. Comfortable shipping production systems, he also rebuilt frontend stacks and real-time collaborative tools earlier in his career, giving him a rare full-stack perspective among ML specialists. Colleagues describe him as open-minded and pragmatic, skilled at turning advanced research techniques into robust, deployable solutions. He combines a Master’s in Machine Learning from Aalto University with a proven track record of improving both model performance and engineering velocity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Machine Learning Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Machine Learning Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Aalto University
Finnish, Russian, English
Github Skills (103)
ai9
testing9
python9
deep-learning9
lifecycle9
generative-adversarial-network9
pytorch9
scaling9
machine-learning9
typescript-react9
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
lightning9
firefox8
api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
maxmax1992/DDPG-MADDPG
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 46 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
maxmax1992/LiveChat
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:56 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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