Summary
Sem Sinchenko is a Senior Data Engineer with 8 years of experience building production-grade ETL pipelines, feature stores, and ML inference systems using Python, Java, and Scala. He bridges data science and engineering, having progressed from data scientist roles into MLOps leadership where he enables scalable model deployment and operational workflows. His background in solid state physics (BS/MS) gives him a quantitative bent and a knack for turning complex problems into robust data architectures. Active in the Apache Software Foundation, he contributes to open-source data engineering tools and brings community-driven best practices into enterprise environments. Based in Belgrade, he has delivered impactful solutions across large financial institutions and ad tech, now driving data infrastructure at BidMachine. Not obvious from titles: he fuses deep research training with pragmatic engineering to shorten the path from prototype models to reliable production services.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Solid State physics, Master of Science - MS, Solid State physics at Moscow State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Solid State physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Solid State physics at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English