Igor Zelenin

About Igor

Experience

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   Amby Lab · Self-employed

   • Technical Lead — Frontend AI Solutions

     Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos·Remote·Current

     Amby Lab is a boutique technical consultancy focused in the intersection of art and technology. We help galleries, museums, artists, and collectors navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape, offering expertise in areas such as art-tech market, immersive experiences, and AI-powered exhibition assistance tools. Transformed the curatorial workflow of 10+ art institutions by designing and implementing AI exhibition assistance solutions that reduced curation time by 70%. Architected and built the frontend solutions from scratch, using Vercel's AI SDK, and OpenAI API for LLM integration.

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   Data Science Retreat · Full-time

   • Data Science Trainee

     Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 · 5 mos·Berlin, Germany · On-site

     Completed the intensive bootcamp with advanced curriculum, gaining proficiency in Python, SQL, data visualization, etc. Developed skills in model selection, feature engineering, linear models, tree-based algorithms, ensemble methods, and time series analysis. Applied TensorFlow and PyTorch to deep learning projects involving NLP, transfer learning, image processing, computer vision, deep reinforcement learning, geometric deep learning, and generative AI. Further refined deep learning skills through debugging techniques and exploration of LLMs and Retrieval Augmented Generation. Collaborated within a team of three to deliver a final project "Study of the effects of Equivariant graph neural networks (EGNN) on the predictive power on the point cloud data", demonstrating practical application of bootcamp concepts.

3. 

   5 yrs 7 mos

   • Technical Team Lead

     Nov 2019 - Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 4 mos
   • Technical Team Lead | Senior Frontend Engineer

     Jun 2019 - Nov 2019 · 6 mos
   • Senior Frontend Engineer

     Aug 2018 - Jun 2019 · 11 mos
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   KAYAK

   • Design Engineer

     May 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

     * Launched 13+ features and UI experiments in Trips web application and in Result Pages, which served millions of users daily. * Optimized and orchestrated the network of WordPress blogs, driving expansion across 30+ locales and enhancing global reach.

5. 

   Moviepilot Inc.

   • Frontend Developer

     Mar 2016 - May 2016 · 3 mos·Berlin Area, Germany

     * Conducted the transformation of Moviepilot.com's homepage to be more responsive and cross-browser compatible, ensuring a seamless user experience. * Led the adoption of the BEM methodology in CSS and React code, improving code quality and consistency. Code review cycle shortened by 50%. * Introduced and configured unit and end-to-end testing environments for the Creators.co project, enhancing project efficiency and reliability. Impoved test coverage by 30%

Education

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   Saint Petersburg State UniversityMaster's degree, Applied Informatics in Humanities

   Activities and societies: Organized the student festival “Artes Liberales” under the aegis of the faculty of Arts. Actively participated in different social projects: worked with disabled children, sex workers, drug users, waifs. Was a member at the Hermitage Museum archaeological expeditions. Started my university studies at physics department after mathematical school. So have solid mathematical background. Actively attended lectures at different departments — psychological, philological, school of economics, faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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   Saimaa University of Applied SciencesFine Arts

   Activities and societies: Most of my free time spent in the analog photo laboratory – dark room, manually printed photos. Also I did quite much hiking, biking and swimming. Studied one semester by exchange program, spent most of the time in the photo studio and the dark room.

Skills