Yury Zhuk
Freelance AI Engineer, Hands-on Head Of AI DS at Shoelessly
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolYury Zhuk is a hands-on AI engineer and founder with nine years of experience building production ML systems and leading cross-functional teams from prototype to regulated product. Based in Vienna, he has led AI efforts as CTO and Head of AI—turning smartphones into medical devices at Shoelessly and delivering asset-level renewable energy forecasts at Balun Energy—while consulting through his own practice yury.tech. His background spans computer vision, time-series forecasting, and ML engineering with real-world impact in industrial manufacturing, healthcare, and energy. Comfortable across the full ML lifecycle, he’s repeatedly shipped scalable, optimized models and data pipelines (including Spark and Azure streaming) and has a knack for turning research-grade approaches into fast, deployable solutions. Notably, he combines startup founding experience and hardware prototyping with rigorous statistical training from UBC, which helps him bridge product, regulatory, and engineering constraints.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Statistics Thematic Concentration in Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Statistics Thematic Concentration in Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaEnhanced Honors, Enhanced Honors at The Woodlands School
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
assistive-technology10
generative9
generative-art9
collections9
dreambooth8
landscape8
artificial-intelligence7
generative-testing7
azure6
react6
deep-learning6
sql6
ai6
machine-learning6
pyspark6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Teetertater/wonderful-oregano
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Jamstack site created with Stackbit
Contributions:10 PRs, 117 pushes in 5 days
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Teetertater/StrangerLights
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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