Engineering × research

Talex
Maxim.

AI engineer. Security researcher. Inventor.

I build AI systems—and research how to make their actions traceable and accountable.

PhD Researcher at the University of Greenwich

TALEX MAXIM / AI ENGINEERING & RESEARCH
Illustrated portrait of Talex Maxim wearing smart glasses, with floating drones and gold-and-teal neural network displays
An inventor’s mindset. A researcher’s curiosity.
Doctoral researchUniversity of Greenwich
Original workChagu Protocol
AI fellowshipNebius Academy
Shared practiceOpen source & writing

01 / Bio

An engineer’s craft.
A researcher’s curiosity.

My background in mathematics and statistics led me into infrastructure, cybersecurity, and machine learning. I work across model building, AI solutions, and the systems they depend on.

Today, I’m a PhD Researcher at the University of Greenwich alongside my industry work in AI engineering. My research investigates behavior, evidence, and accountability in agentic AI.

I created Chagu and SARAD to explore these questions through protocol development, anomaly detection, and open-source code.

I bring an inventor’s mindset and practical engineering experience to research—and research depth to the systems I build.

02 / Selected work

From questions
to working code.

Explore GitHub
Protocol development & ongoing research

Chagu

Security through connected evidence.

Creator and inventor of Chagu, bringing together secure data transformation, anomaly detection, and blockchain-based accountability.

My independent protocol development and AI security research explores anomaly detection, provenance graphs, and blockchain accountability in distributed and agentic systems.

Provenance graphsBlockchainAgentic AI security
Applied ML & open source

SARAD

Finding anomalies in satellite imagery.

An open-source anomaly detection pipeline for synthetic aperture radar images, combining statistical RX detection, autoencoder reconstruction, and anomaly score fusion.

Deep learningRX detectionSatellite imagery

Explore all projects

03 / Research direction

What can we trust
when agents act?

At Greenwich, my doctoral research investigates security and trust in agentic AI. Chagu provides a continuing space for prototypes, questions, and experiments.

Current research directions

01 Evidence & provenance

How can we trace the sources, actions, and dependencies behind an agent’s behavior across system boundaries?

02 Behavior & anomalies

How can statistical and learned signals help identify unusual behavior in complex, interacting systems?

03 Accountability & recovery

How can evidence support a proportionate response—and help us assess whether a system has recovered?

04 / Engineering practice

Build. Evaluate. Operate.

Research depth meets practical delivery.

01

Models & signals

Model development, evaluation, feature engineering, and anomaly detection.

Python · PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · Polars · pandas · MLflow

02

Agents & AI solutions

LLM agents, tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, and observable workflows.

TypeScript · Temporal · LiteLLM · Langfuse · LangChain · Vertex AI

03

Systems & security

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, MLOps, observability, and intelligent automation.

Kubernetes · AWS · GCP · Terraform · Prometheus · Grafana · Neo4j

Selected research & engineering experience

A path through systems, models, and AI.

  1. August 2024 — Present

    Chagu

    Creator, AI Data Scientist & Researcher

    Independent protocol development and AI security research involving anomaly detection, provenance graphs, and blockchain accountability.

    Ongoing research
  2. 2025 — Present

    Dream team · Global corporation

    Staff AI Engineer

    AI engineering, AIOps, anomaly detection, and intelligent automation.

    Current
  3. 2024 — End of 2025

    Check Point

    Senior DevOps & MLOps Engineer

    Infrastructure, ML workflows, observability, and security.

  4. 2022 — 2024

    Ezbob

    Senior DevOps & MLOps Engineer

    ML infrastructure, algorithm execution, and engineering automation.

  5. 2021 — 2022

    Pagaya

    Principal DevOps Software Engineer

    ML integration, data pipelines, and distributed infrastructure.

05 / Ideas in public

Writing & open research.

Read on Medium

06 / Foundations

Keep learning.
Keep building.

Mathematics, statistics, business, and engineering inform how I approach research and the systems it connects to.

Research

PhD Researcher, Computer Science
University of Greenwich · Registered researcher

AI engineering

AI Performance Engineering Fellowship
Nebius Academy

Certification

Nebius Agentic AI Builder
Nebius Academy · 2026

Data science

Advanced Data Science
Professional certification · Y-Data

Data engineering

Big Data Engineering
Professional certification · NAYA College

Quantitative foundations

Specialist Diploma
Mathematics & statistics · Quantitative finance focus

Business

MBA
Bologna

Selected cohort

GenAI Pioneer Program
One of 200 selected participants · 2024

“There are two types of sacrifices:
correct ones, and mine.”

Mikhail Tal · widely attributed

07 / The next move

Great work
is a team sport.

I bring an inventor’s mindset, research depth, and AI engineering expertise to ambitious international teams tackling complex challenges in AI and cybersecurity.