NikitaChurkin
Summary
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SeniorNikita Churkin is a Lead Data Scientist specializing in personalization with nine years of experience across e-commerce, banking, and academia. He has deep hands-on expertise in tabular ML, time series, computer vision and NLP, and has built monitoring and meta-model systems to manage ML risk and performance in large banking environments. A competitive practitioner, he placed 33rd globally on Kaggle and 8th on Zindi, and he also designed and taught a highly rated university course on ML competitions. Nikita combines production-focused engineering—automating workflows that saved teams significant time—with research-oriented feature importance and AutoML work, making him adept at turning experimental models into reliable, auditable products. Based in Bra, Italy, he blends rigorous mathematical training with practical delivery in personalization and risk-aware ML.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
kaggle8
r8
catboost7
data-mining7
classification7
python7
decision-tree7
cuda6
gpu6
machine-learning6
gradient-boosting6
java6
data-science6
cpp5
coreml5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NikitaChurkin/hse_intro_to_ml_comps
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
GlebFilatov/sber_kaggle
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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