Summary
Taras Baranyuk is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with over a decade of hands-on ML experience and 17+ years building software across roles from developer to CTO and startup founder. He drives ML deployments end-to-end—designing models, building RESTful microservices, and creating analysis tools—for high-performance systems like a mobile Demand Side Platform. A Kaggle Competition Master, he brings both competitive modeling chops and product-focused pragmatism, routinely mining data for new signals and optimizing model–database interplay. His background running engineering and product teams gives him a rare fluency translating technical insights to business outcomes and leading cross-functional change. Based in Williamsburg, VA, he combines low-level systems experience (C++ and drivers) with modern ML productionization, which helps him bridge research and scalable delivery.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, IT, automated control systems, Engineer, IT, automated control systems at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
Master's degree, Project Management, Master's degree, Project Management at International Management Institute St Petersburg
English, Ukrainian, Russian