Summary
Vladimir Nikolaev is an R&D Computer Vision Engineer with 11 years of experience building deep learning systems for biometrics, fraud detection, and aerospace applications. He has driven end-to-end projects from data collection and model design to production integration, notably accelerating flight-simulation components and automating image annotation workflows that cut manual markup from 30 minutes to one. His background spans practical ML in finance—where his churn-prediction work reduced profitable customer loss by 10%—to bespoke CV solutions that identify and track billboards and ads in video. Vladimir blends research-grade model innovation (custom CNN/ResDilation/Siam Mask and BiLSTM architectures) with pragmatic engineering that delivers measurable customer value. Based in Germany, he excels at coordinating cross-team requirements and turning complex simulation and sensor challenges into deployable, performance-improving models.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Сomputer science and engineering, Bachelor's degree, Сomputer science and engineering at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)