Summary
Piotr Trochim is a Head of ML Ops with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and animation systems across research labs, game studios, and tech giants. He currently leads infrastructure efforts at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, enabling cutting-edge machine learning research and applications. His background spans reinforcement learning at DeepMind, experimentation and statistics at Meta, and narrative-driven LLM work for AAA games at Iconic AI, giving him rare cross-domain expertise from research to product. Earlier in his career he architected animation, physics and AI systems for studios like CD Projekt Red, Crytek and Havok, and ran his own AI/animation consultancy, demonstrating both hands-on engineering and entrepreneurial drive. Known for marrying rigorous engineering (test-driven and statistical approaches) with creative interactive systems, he excels at turning complex research prototypes into scalable, reliable platforms. Based in St Albans, UK, he combines academic training in Automatics and Robotics with a practical track record of shipping production ML and game technologies.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Automatics and Robotics, Master of Science (M.S.) Automatics and Robotics at Politechnika Lubelska