Yaroslav Kopotilov
Founder CEO Speaker at Toptal
France
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Top SchoolYaroslav Kopotilov is an experienced data scientist and founder with eight years of building and shipping end-to-end ML solutions across energy markets, algorithmic trading, and GIS. He combines deep applied math and financial engineering training (École Polytechnique, Paris VI, NSU) with hands-on skills in Python, SQL/NoSQL, cloud/HPC and MLOps to move projects from research to production. As a consultant at Toptal and former data scientist at Vitol and JPMorgan, he has delivered everything from small-sample statistical models to terabyte-scale pipelines and custom numerical optimizations like an Extended Kalman Filter for exotic pricing. He founded YAFinData and now runs Data Sanity, blending technical leadership with public speaking and industry-focused AI education. Comfortable tweaking LLM pipelines and optimizing numerical algorithms, he’s equally fluent mentoring teams and translating technical insights into business impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Applied Mathematics, Engineer’s Degree, Applied Mathematics at École PolytechniqueMaster’s Degree, Financial Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Financial Mathematics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English, French, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
dashboard10
postgresql10
python10
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deep-learning10
elasticsearch10
prediction10
streamlit10
orchestration10
haskell10
monitoring10
pgsql10
bokeh10
docker-compose10
econometrics10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mysterious-ben/ds-examples
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Notebooks and code snipptets testing various Data Science concepts
Contributions:45 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencejupyter-notebooktesting
mysterious-ben/xmlrecords
May 2020 - Jun 2023
Utilities to extract tabular data from XML
Contributions:8 releases, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 1 month
extractiondata-processingxmltabular-dataxpath
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