### AI solutions engineering
As an independent AI engineering consultant, I have developed multiple machine learning MVPs for my clients (NLP, computer vision, time series, tabular data): 🇮🇹 [Artesys Orion](https://artesysorion.eu/), [Remago](https://remago.com/), [Socialmeter](https://socialmeter.it/en/), [Zupit](https://www.zupit.it/), 🇺🇦 [Semanticforce](https://semanticforce.ai/en), [Payphone X](https://web.payphone.io/), 🇺🇸 [MedTechCollective](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medtechcollective), [Mlvch](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/mlvch/__CflzzCNPQFp-hdXcLtPz7yfAS4K_gVWNQCAa6RnaN5s), 🇬🇮 [Ilogos Europe](https://ilogos.biz/), and more.
I also worked on long-term projects that were mainly related to mathematical modeling:
- 🇺🇦 *Ukrainian firm, NDA* - Omaha poker bot + sports betting models development
- ðŸ‡ðŸ‡° *Asian hedge fund, NDA* - trading strategy development with allocation capacity up to $1B
Apart from independent work, for a period of time, I was a technical co-founder at 2 startups:
* Co-founded 🇮🇹 [HPA](https://www.hpa.ai/tmp/) as CTO, but left after a year of collaboration, later on [the firm was acquired by Terranova](https://hpa.ai/2021/04/13/%F0%9F%92%A5-terranova-software-entra-nel-capitale-sociale-di-hpa/). Focus of work - time series analysis and energy markets
* Co-founding data scientist at 🇺🇦 [Mawi Band](https://mawi.band/) for a couple of years, and some learnings from this work you can find [here](https://medium.com/mawi-band). Focus of work - biomedical signals processing and analysis
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### Quantitative finance competitions
I discovered early, formed a small team and participated in 🇺🇸 [Numerai Signals competition](https://signals.numer.ai/) - achieving maximum [top-1% position](https://signals.numer.ai/richard_n1ckson), learnings are [here](https://mirror.xyz/0xDE1BEEcCa1467d428fA44250298f55A78743F6EF/FPtc8ng7uZ3xhPmn3TfihZRl-UPo2obiPGy04_YCfDY).
Later, I started creating AI agents for the quantitative finance competitions. First one was an AI agent for 🇺🇸 [WorldQuant BRAIN](https://worldquantbrain.com/) competition ([profile link]((https://platform.worldquantbrain.com/profile/public/OH58245))):
* [IQC](https://platform.worldquantbrain.com/iqc) 2026 - finished [Stage 1](https://platform.worldquantbrain.com/competition/IQC2026S1) at 253 / 152550 place globally (top-0.2%), currently competing in [Stage 2](https://platform.worldquantbrain.com/competition/IQC2026S2)
* Main [Challenge](https://platform.worldquantbrain.com/competition/challenge) - best result top-0.3% globally