Roman Prokofyev
Senior Software Engineer at LGT Capital Partners
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRoman Prokofyev is a Senior Software Engineer and technical architect with 14 years of experience building data-driven systems and leading engineering teams across fintech and mobility domains. Based in Zurich, he currently leads trading and data platform efforts for a news-based trading fund at LGT Capital Partners, combining low-latency engineering with data science workflows. Previously he served as Chief Scientist at FAIRTIQ, where he helped simplify complex public-transport ticketing through hardware-free, algorithmic solutions that balance rider experience and operator costs. His background includes a PhD in Computer Science focused on knowledge extraction and entity disambiguation, giving him deep expertise in NLP, ontologies and scientific text processing. Roman blends research rigor with hands-on systems design—from distributed data platforms to real-time trading pipelines—and has a track record of turning academic methods into production-grade software. He also brings formal training in leadership from IMD, enabling him to bridge technical vision and team execution.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership Essentials, Leadership Essentials at IMD Business SchoolMSc, Applied Physics and Mathematics, MSc, Applied Physics and Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg
English, French, Russian, German
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Github Skills (200)
athena10
python10
lda10
rendering-engine10
esbuild-plugin10
javascript10
rendering10
glsl10
stanford-nlp10
selenium-webdriver10
databricks10
sentiment10
pytorch10
visualization10
named-entity-recognition10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dragoon/starport
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
Smart home dashboard
Contributions:6 PRs, 195 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
raspberry-pihome-dashboardhome-automationhome-assistantdashboard
dragoon/tmd-primer
May 2020 - May 2022
Demonstrating advantages of sequential ML models over traditional ML 🔥
Contributions:183 commits, 16 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ml-modelstraditionalfeature-extractiondeep-learningmachinelearning
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