Taras Yanchynskyy
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Wave HQ
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTaras Yanchynskyy is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of software experience, currently building financial products at Wave in Old Toronto. He combines production ML expertise with an engineering-leader background at Wave, progressing from software engineer to staff-level ML roles while emphasizing organization, collaboration, and pragmatic delivery. A former Forex trader who wrote automated trading scripts, he brings a rare blend of data-driven decision making and real-world systems experience to ML problems. An eternal learner and recent father, he balances technical curiosity with people-first leadership and prefers listening to speaking. Outside work he trains models for fun, reads for pleasure, and recharges on long hikes with his dog — traits that keep his engineering grounded and resilient.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
DMD, Dentistry, DMD, Dentistry at National Medical University 'O.O. Bogomolec', Kyiv
English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish
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Github Skills (37)
color-scheme8
conemu7
portable7
ssh-agent7
powershell6
shell6
google-play-services6
mintty6
django-login6
android6
django-rest-framework6
python-requests6
windows6
kivy6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Second-Front-Ukraine/secondfront-wave-proxy
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 28 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
pyconca/2017-web
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:40 PRs, 84 pushes, 43 branches in 7 months
pythonpycon
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