Raidย Arfua
Head Of AI at Cloverpop
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolRaid Arfua is a Head of AI with 10+ years building production-grade ML systems and leading cross-functional teams from Prague, blending deep technical hands-on experience in recommender systems, computer vision and LLMs with product-first strategic leadership. He has moved teams from R&D to reliable deliveryโdesigning modular recommendation engines, agentic AI proofs-of-concept, and decision-intelligence platforms that drove revenue growth and operational efficiency. A practiced conference speaker and educator, Raid translates complex ML ideas into business outcomes and has presented at major industry events across Europe. His background in probability/statistics and financial economics gives him a rare ability to couple rigorous quantitative thinking with pragmatic engineering and strong code quality standards. He thrives on collaborative brainstorming and both bottom-up and top-down product discovery to ensure scalable, high-impact AI solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MA in Business Economics, Diploma with Hons, Financial economics, MA in Business Economics, Diploma with Hons, Financial economics at Kyiv School of EconomicsMaster's degree, Theory of probability and mathematical statistics, Master's degree, Theory of probability and mathematical statistics at Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivMathematics, Programming, Physics, Mathematics, Programming, Physics at Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (16)
reinforcement-learning-environments9
reinforcement-learning7
monte-carlo-tree-search7
server6
pose6
3d-object-detection5
computer-vision4
multiclass-classification4
classification4
resnet4
deep-learning3
3d-detection3
machine-learning3
object-detection3
pose-estimation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Arfua/General
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year
dzhurak/player-team-clusterization
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Workshop: Person Classification in Sports
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
resnetpersondeep-learningworkshopconvolutional-neural-network
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