Anton

Anton Makarenko

Contacts
Location: Balingen, Germany (relocation is possible)
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Work Experience

Time:
March 2024 – present
Company: Smoothr
Smoothr specializes in the development of artificial intelligence solutions for self-service
kiosks. It focuses on creating innovative technologies that enhance user experience,
streamline operations, and improve customer interactions. By leveraging cutting-edge AI
algorithms, the company aims to transform the way businesses engage with their
customers through automated self-service platforms.
Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (remote with occasional travel)
Projects fulfilled: ✓ Implemented automated error detection and resolution processes, ensuring
optimal performance and reliability.
✓ Conducted comprehensive testing and validation, including recording test
sessions in a simulated supermarket environment to identify and mitigate
potential issues, driving continuous improvement in service quality.

Time:
November 2020 – March 2024
Company: Eleks (headquartered in Lviv, Ukraine)
Eleks is an international company that provides custom software engineering and
consulting services. The company has about 1500+ employees and operates offices in the
United States, Canada, Germany, Estonia, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
Position: Machine Learning Research Engineer (remote)
Projects fulfilled: ✓ Indoor scene segmentation, generation of scape planning (interior design)
✓ Writing custom deep learning framework using PyTorch Lightning
✓ Predict future sales or revenue for products based on historical sales data and
additional relevant features
✓ Creating a sound classification algorithm

Time: May 2018 – April 2020
Company: Trust Soursing (headquartered in Newport Beach, USA)
Trust Sourcing is a technology outsourcing company, est. in 2005 as a part of Cygility Inc. It
provides the cutting-edge tech solutions in digital media, finance, food&beverage, retail,
and travel industries.
Position: Machine Learning Engineer (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Projects fulfilled: Data preparation, metric selection, model training, API deployment for regression,
classification, clusterization, etc. of tabular data (namely, forecasting of trends
(penetration, item type) in food demand for HoReCa in the USA).

Time: July 2017 – April 2018
Company: Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine (headquartered in Suwon, South Korea)

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 One of the units of R&D infrastructure of Samsung Electronics - a South Korean
multinational company, major manufacturer of electronics.
Position: Machine Learning Research Engineer (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Projects fulfilled: Training CNNs for object detection in video and monocular depth estimation
from a single image.

Time: June 2016 - June 2017
Company: Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine
Position: Junior Software Engineer (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Projects fulfilled: Creating an Android application for Gear VR (virtual reality headset).

Time:November 2015 – June 2016
Company: UkrSibbank JSC (headquartered in Paris, France)
One of the most reliable and stable bank in Ukraine thanks to a strategic partnership with
BNP Paribas Group, a French international banking group.
Position: Analytic in Department of analytics (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Projects fulfilled: Сustomer credit forecasting based on evaluation of the client’s profile;
Creating credit reports using all-Ukrainian financial data.

Skills
Python – 7 years
C++ – 1 year
Scikit-learn – 7 years
Keras – 5 years
PyTorch – 4 years
NumPy – 6 years
matplotlib – 2 years
Flask – 2 years
Git – 8 years

Achievements
✓ IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection Competition by Kaggle, silver medal (2019)
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ieee-fraud-detection

✓ Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge by Kaggle, silver medal (2020)
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge

Education
Time: September 2012 – June 2018
University: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Specialization – Mathematics

Languages
English – Upper intermediate
German – Intermediate

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 Ukrainian – Native Speaker
Russian – Native Speaker

Misc.
Date of birth: July 20, 1995
LinkedIn page:
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