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Yaroslav Kopotilov, Data Scientist

Remote positions only

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Skills

Stack: Python | C++ | SQL | Linux

Machine Learning

sklearn statsmodels lightgbm skopt tpot numpyro pytorch tensorflow

Data Engineering

pandas dask SQL SQLAlchemy AWS-S3 AWS-Athena Spark requests imaplib STOMP

Reproducible ML

Docker poetry pyenv Git/GitHub mlflow

MLOps

Ansible pytest pre-commit prefect GitHub-Actions Grafana Sentry ELK

Numerical Computation

numpy scipy numba jax

Data Visualization

jupyter matplotlib plotly dash streamlit flask HTML

Industry Knowledge

Other: Project management | Product management | Team leading | Mentorship

Language: English | Russian | French

Work Experience

01/2022 - present: CEO and Lead Developer, YAFinData, Remote
Building the financial data and analytics platform www.yafin.app
  • Focus on UK and EU electricity markets
  • Commitment to performance, accuracy and reliability
07/2020 - present: Data Scientist, Toptal, Remote
Building AI systems for clients as Toptal's consultant
  • Data science consulting in financial services and algo trading
  • Engineering of high-quality ETL and Machine Learning systems
  • Delivering data insights in a business-friendly way
01/2019 - 07/2020: Data Scientist, Vitol, London
Conquering energy markets with the power of Machine Learning
  • Created market analysis tools and systematic strategies
  • Worked with coal, power and crude desks
  • Led data science projects from setup to deployment
01/2019 - 06/2020: Model Governance Associate, JPMorgan, London
Challenging pricing models for commodity and FX options
05/2016 - 10/2016: Algorithmic Trading Intern, Credit Suisse, London
Seeking for alpha in commodity and equity markets
02/2015 - 07/2015: Research Intern, Novosibirsk State University
Writing a paper on image classification for a particular type of shapes

Academia Degrees

MSc in Financial Mathematics, Pierre and Marie Curie University
DEA El Karoui: top Financial Mathematics program in France
MSc in Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique
Cycle d'Ingénieur polytechnicien: top Engineering program in France
MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, Novosibirsk State University
BSc in Probability and Statistics, Novosibirsk State University

Personal Projects

GPT Telegram bot (team effort)
A bot powered by GPT feat. text-to-speech and speech-to-text (link)
Python data wrangling tools
Data pipelines with caching (link) & an efficient XML parser (link)
Interactive website
This very website powered by Flask + Dash (link)
Forecast Sales Kaggle Competition
A surprisingly simple model that won the competition (link)
Data Science in examples
Notebooks to tackle various ML and numerical problems (link)
Popular classification algorithms
A comparison study using data from Titanic Kaggle competition (link)