Zakhar Davydov
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZakhar Davydov is an AI-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with eight years of experience building ML-driven products and autonomous systems from London. He founded Ellie, an AI data-analyst startup for D2C brands, and has since worked as a founding engineer on a hackable AI agent and now as Member of Technical Staff at xAI, blending product-first thinking with deep ML engineering. His background spans consumer apps, voice AI (Siri), robotics (leading UCL Rover’s autonomy), and accelerator leadership, showing comfort moving between research prototypes and production systems. He trained at UCL (MEng Computer Science) and repeatedly gravitates toward founding roles, indicating strong product instincts and a bias for ownership. Notably, he combines hands-on ML research experience with real-world deployment know-how, having shipped both BERT-based personalization work and end-to-end analytics agents.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Caterham SchoolUniversity College London
English, Russian, GermanProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adkurylev/relocation_recsys
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 27 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
ShumwayGordon/Algorithms_ITMO
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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