Vasily Homutov

Skills

Work Experience

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Data & ML Engineer, null, 2021 - present

Gainy is a personalized asset management app for retail investors.

As a part of the engineering team at Gainy, I was responsible for many data-driven aspects of the product:

- Personalised match score based on users' interest and investment profile

- Recommendations of stocks and stock collections

- Smart in-app search

- Automatic improvement of stock cards (e.g. automatic refinement of industries based on stock descriptions)

Technically speaking, I prototyped and built:

- Data processing infrastructure and pipelines (AWS, Terraform, Airflow, DBT)

- Integration of multiple sources of stock market data

- Production-level machine learning models for NLP and recommendation system (Python, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, NLTK, MLflow)

- In-app search (based on Algolia)

Solution Architect,  EPAM Systems, 2018 - 2021

- Designed and developed modern and traditional Data & Analytics platforms, following Data mesh, Data fabric, Data lake and Data
warehouse concepts and patterns; experienced with Lambda and Kappa architectures.

- Was responsible for technical aspects of multiple projects, including customer data platform and customer analytics (ML-based
personalisation and customer scoring) in Retail; data warehouse cloud migration in Automotive; core platform capabilities (data
integration & orchestration, streaming data, data observability) and data products in Retail and Finance.

- Built solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure with a mix of platform-as-a-service (S3, EMR, HDInsights, Cosmos
DB, Snowflake, Databricks) and open-source technologies (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Airflow, Hive, Presto).

- Worked on various sized projects, starting from an MVP with 3 - 4 engineers up to leading a team of architects on a large cloud
migration with 100+ people totally; experienced with Agile methodologies.

- Architected and prototyped frameworks for data processing, data observability and machine learning operationalisation in Scala and
Python; approached data management and data governance automation through comprehensive metadata management.

Lead Data Engineer, EPAM System, 2017 - 2018

- Participated in multiple big data projects, e.g. built core data platform capabilities (data processing and orchestration) and various
data products in Retail; implemented a highly-performant recommendation engine in Telecom.

- Implemented highly-loaded web services (Java, Spring Framework, big data processing pipelines (Apache Spark, Scala and Python)
and databases (Cassandra, Apache Ignite) with strong focus on engineering excellence.

- Worked closely with Data science team on optimisation and productisation of machine learning algorithms using Apache Spark MLib.

- Had experience in team leadership, including hiring and project interviews, mentoring, performance reviews; evolving teams from
"forming" to "performing" phase.

Lead Software Engineer, Reltio, 2015 - 2017

- Designed, prototyped and developed an analytical platform within Reltio Cloud, designed to seamlessly integrate data to quickly
enable predictive modeling and reporting (with Databricks).

- As the technical lead of the analytical platform, was responsible for key technical decisions, including event-based data
synchronisation (with Amazon Kinesis), data storage optimisation (on Amazon S3), data pipelines (Apache Spark), etc.

- Took responsibility for overall team management, including hiring interviews, mentoring and performance reviews; as well as
communication with the product owner and end users.

- Re-engineered the existing data matching algorithms by using a distributed computation engine (Apache Spark) and, therefore,
increased the performance by 10x and enabled fuzzy matching on big data scale (billions of records, tens of terabytes).

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Senior Software Engineer, Reltio, 2013 - 2015

- Worked as part of the team responsible for Reltio Cloud platform, which combines modern master data management with data-driven
applications.

- Successfully implemented new features in Java and Spring-based web services, including attribute-based data access, data
import/export, matching functionality, etc.

- Fully owned the part of the part of the platform related to record matching (i.e. fuzzy data deduplication), including design and
implementation of new functionality, database performance optimisation (Cassandra), etc.

- Closely worked with the data science team on machine learning algorithms in matching, including optimisation and productisation of
the proposed approaches.

Software Engineer, Axiom SL, 2012 - 2013

- Was the part of a backend team, which worked on a regulatory tool to deliver risk aggregation, workflow automation, validation and
audit functionality, etc.

- Implemented multiple new features, as well as internal optimisations of client-server communication.

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Junior Software Engineer, Yandex, 2011 - 2012

- Participated in an internal project aimed to improve the quality of data about Russian organisations (in Yandex.Map and other
services) by applying machine learning techniques to web data extraction.

- Worked closely with data scientists to propose and implement a novel approach to web information extraction based on visual
representation of web pages.