Vitalii Kotliarenko is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-scale distributed systems, machine learning and computer vision solutions. He combines deep academic grounding in cybernetics and applied mathematics with hands-on production experience at companies like Grammarly and Playtech, where he worked on data processing, Scala, Spark and Hadoop-based architectures. Comfortable both leading teams and rolling up his sleeves, he has recent experience as an engineering manager and now runs an independent R&D lab focused on robotics, AI/NLP and big-data algorithms. Known for mentoring and architectural design, he bridges research and product delivery to move prototypes into reliable systems. Based in Ukraine, he brings a pragmatic blend of algorithmic rigor and product-minded engineering—and often favors research-driven experiments that can be operationalized at scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Cybernetics, MS Cybernetics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 17 branches in 1 year 1 month
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