I'm a Middle Data Scientist with experience in ML engineering, Python programming and analytics. I specialize in designing/implementing/refining/deploying ML systems, data-related problems (collection, processing, transforming, modeling, visualization, analysis, interpreting), and developing various automation software.
This page provides a more detailed description of my professional skills, as opposed to the minimal version of the CV provided in the link above. For my freelance services and projects, check out the Freelance page.
👨🏻💻 WORK EXPERIENCE
Data Scientist, ML Engineer & Python Developer @ Freelance 🥥
Jun 2024 — Present 
Various placesLong-term full-time freelancing & seeking for a Middle ML Engineer position.
- Designing/implementing/refining/deploying ML systems.
- Handling data-related problems: collection, processing, transforming, modeling, visualization, analysis, etc.
- Developing various automation software.
Jul 2023 — May 2024 Tbilisi, Georgia (remote)Remokate is a recruitment agency that connects top IT talent with leading companies in Russia and abroad, including startups, large corporations and international relocation opportunities.
- Designed, monitored and interpreted key business and product metrics to identify growth opportunities and bottlenecks across customer funnels.
- Wrote and optimized complex SQL queries for large datasets, improving data processing speed and accuracy.
- Built and maintained interactive dashboards in BI tools (DataLens, Tableau), enabling stakeholders to track KPIs, detect anomalies and make data-informed decisions.
- Conducted hypothesis testing and A/B experiments to validate product changes and measure their impact on core metrics.
- Performed cohort, funnel and factor analysis to understand user behavior, retention and conversion trends.
Dec 2021 — Jul 2023 Russia (remote)Various occasional short-term remote jobs and freelance gigs to get some experience (mostly freelance.habr.com).
- Built Python software: automation scripts, web scrapers and Telegram bots.
- Gathered data and performed data processing.
- Managed PostgreSQL databases for collected data.
- Implemented simple data pipelines.
- Designed and developed KPI dashboards and other analytical tools.
Nov 2019 — Dec 2021 Russia (remote)Freelance gigs on freelance.habr.com outside of university classes.
- Designed landing pages, blogs and promotional web pages.
- Implemented frontend using React.
🛠️ TECHNICAL SKILLS
My key skills:
🏗️ Software engineering: building, debugging, testing, deploying
🤹♂️ Data wrangling: collecting, processing, transforming
🔍︎ Data analysis: statistical inference & visualization
🤖 Traditional ML algorithms for supervised & unsupervised learning
🧠 Deep leaning: designing, implementing, fine-tuning models
☁️ Cloud infrastructure & big data processing
🛢 Databases
Technologies and tools I use (clickable):
🎓 EDUCATION
Academic
🎓 B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science @ Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk; major: "Computer Modeling and Information Technologies" (2019-2023), minor: "Statistics and Data Analysis" (2022-2023)
📜 Thesis topic: "Research of state-of-the-art neural network architectures for scene text recognition problems" (paper); research supervisor: Popov A.A.
Courses
Certified specialization in Machine Learning and Data Analysis offered by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (МФТИ) & Yandex
Oct 2020 Credential ID: BBTQSDXPTKCK
Certified specialization in applied Data Science offered by University of Michigan
Sep 2020 Credential ID: VWTSMYDC66TZ
Certified specialization in Deep Learning offered by DeepLearning.AI
Jan 2021 Credential ID: TZY9XAAPRMXM
Certified specialization in advanced Machine Learning offered by National Research University Higher School of Economics (ВШЭ)
Dec 2022 Removed from Coursera
Audited specialization in building AI apps with TensorFlow offered by DeepLearning.AI
Dec 2023
Audited after Andrew Ng's classic course, a renewed specialization in Machine Learning offered by Stanford University & DeepLearning.AI
Oct 2024
Lectures and practices in Machine Learning provided by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (МФТИ)
Spring semester 2020
Free course on Machine Learning provided by OpenDataScience (ods.ai) community
Jul 2023
💡 PROJECTS
My projects are organized into category pages:
🤖 Machine learning
🔎 Data analysis
📊 Data visualization
⛏️ Data collection
⚙️ Python apps
📝 Technical writing
🌐 Web development
📎 Misc
I've also contributed to many other open-source and closed-source projects. In addition, I've tackled several competitive Kaggle projects and have the Kaggle Expert rank.
📝 PUBLICATIONS
Blog articles
The most compelling blog posts will be featured here soon.
Courses
I'm currently actively building & maintaining a free DS/ML course along with several paid mini-courses.
Academic research
MobileEAST: a lightweight & fast scene text detection based on EAST architecture and MobileNet layers (repository, 2023)
🤝 SOFT SKILLS
My main strengths lie in analytical thinking (i.e. I love to do research and analyze everything) and strategizing. As a traveler, I'm adaptable and flexible. I used to work with a flexible schedule, so I can self-organize myself easily. Moreover, I'm curious, goal-oriented and thoughtful about project details: I learn new things easily and know how to search for information. I'm also good at explaining complex things in simple words.
😎 PERSONAL
💪 I'm actively contributing to open-source community
🔒 I'm a cryptography & privacy enthusiast
🐧 I'm a long-time Linux user
🗄️ I'm slowly moving towards complete self-hosting of all my data and apps
⚖️ I'm trying hard to build a career in both full-time and freelance work in order to achieve a balance between flexibility and professional growth
💬 I'm fluent in English (B2+) and Russian (native)
🔗 LINKS
Related profiles
▶️ YouTube
📚 Telegram (tech blog)
🏆 Kaggle
🧩 LeetCode
⚙️ GitHub
🎓 Coursera
🌟 Upwork
⭐ Fiverr
✨ Kwork
✨ Habr Freelance
Contact me
📲 Telegram (fastest way): @averett
📩 Email: avrtt@tuta.io
💼 LinkedIn: @avrtt
