Roman Kucev
Founder & CEO at LLM Arena
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Kucev is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building data-centric businesses and scaling high-quality training data pipelines. He co-created a company that grew to 1,000+ annotators and multi-million dollar revenue, and now leads LLM Arena, benchmarking Russian LLMs and deploying AI to improve business processes. His technical roots span machine learning, large-scale data collection and annotation, and product engineering from his hands-on roles as CTO and R&D engineer. A former lecturer at Yandex School of Data Analysis, he combines academic rigor (MSU in Operations Research) with pragmatic crowd-sourcing expertise—having overseen projects with millions of labeled images and novel datasets like 3D foot scans. He also has background in cryptocurrencies and quantitative finance, which informs a founder’s fluency in both product strategy and data economics.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Quantitative Financial Analytics, Quantitative Financial Analytics at Center of Mathematical Finance (CMF)Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (38)
vk8
annotations8
api-client7
imagenet7
semantic-segmentation7
python-client7
api7
computer-vision7
object-detection7
annotate6
scale6
deep-learning6
toloka6
python6
crowd6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kucev/human_in_the_loop_task
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Домашнее задание для студентов ВШЭ и ШАДа по реализации концепции human in the loop с помощью краудсорсинга
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years
human-in-the-looploop
TAPAKAH68/CheckIO_Solutions
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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