Pavel Kalaidin
Berlin/Tel-Aviv
Summary
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RockstarPavel 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.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (53)
word-segmentation10
python-modules10
ggplot10
word2vec9
boto9
graphic9
lda9
fasttext9
python9
webhdfs9
corpus9
word-embeddings9
information-retrieval9
data-mining9
gensim9
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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