Nazar Ponochevnyi
Founder & CEO at Vector Institute
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNazar Ponochevnyi is a founder and CEO with nine years of experience building AI-driven products that scale in media and manufacturing. He built Harmix’s multimodal search and recommendation platform that processed over 30 million assets and holds patents for music–video harmony prediction, blending research rigor with commercial traction. Now leading Proactive AI Manager, he centralizes company knowledge to create open-source AI agents that proactively coordinate teams, automate RFPs and production scheduling, and preserve institutional know-how from retiring workers. A PhD candidate in Computer Science and former Intel ISEF finalist, Nazar pairs academic research in cross-modal interpretation with hands-on engineering—having shipped computer vision systems and led an eight-person team to profitability. He’s pragmatic about AI’s deployment gaps and focused on giving companies full ownership of their agents and data.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of TorontoIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Українська, Русский, English
Github Skills (64)
paradigms10
callback9
decrypt8
raise8
android-framework8
synchronous8
apk8
mir8
nodejs8
closure8
asynchronous8
architecture8
thenable8
kpi8
recurrent7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NazarPonochevnyi/fast-encryption-software
Apr 2017 - Jan 2021
🔒 Programs so that you can easily encrypt and decrypt your message with different encryption algorithms
Contributions:39 commits, 7 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 9 months
cryptographyencryption-algorithmspythonaes-256programs
NazarPonochevnyi/Trained-CNN-for-Genre-classification
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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