Summary
Yuriy Akopov is an experienced engineering leader with 12+ years building data-driven platforms and MLOps at scale, currently heading the Engineering Chapter for Darwin (now part of Aviva) in London. He blends hands-on data engineering and tooling expertise—Python, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL—with people leadership across multiple teams to move homegrown ML infrastructure into cloud-native production. His background spans large-scale matching and search systems, BI, and bespoke back-end services, reflecting a long history of turning complex data workflows into reliable pipelines. Colleagues know him for pragmatic technical direction and an appetite for improving operational model training and evaluation rather than flashy buzzwords.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Taganrog State Radio Technical University
Russian, English, Armenian, Ukrainian