Pavel Goldman-kalaydin
Chief Explorer at Stealth Startup
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Goldman-kalaydin is a seasoned AI leader and software engineer with 13+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems across fintech, social media, and security domains. He has led large organizations—running a 300-person AI center at Tinkoff—and driven high-impact products like voice and face biometrics, a mass-market voice assistant, and deepfake and fraud-detection systems at Sumsub. Before that he built applied research teams at VK, shipping ASR for 200M voice messages per day and open-source tooling such as the YouTokenToMe tokenizer, and founded an NLP research lab at MIPT focused on safer language models. Based in Berlin and fluent in English, Japanese and Russian, Pavel combines hands-on engineering roots from Motorola with strategic product and research leadership, and is currently exploring new ventures as Chief Explorer. Outside work he trains for endurance sports and is rapidly learning German and Hebrew, reflecting a pragmatic growth mindset.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, Chinese at Confucius Institute in St. PetersburgMS summa cum laude, Computer Science, MS summa cum laude, Computer Science at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityJapanese, Japanese at Japanese Center in St. Petersburg
Japanese, English, Russian, Chinese, German, Hebrew
Github Skills (71)
ggplot10
word2vec9
corpus9
statistics9
tokenizer9
topic-modeling9
stream9
nlp9
mozjpeg9
lda9
fasttext9
python9
word-segmentation9
quantile9
glove9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kalaidin/caltech-ml-class
Jan 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
kalaidin/stackoverflow
Sep 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 6 months
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