Career Profile

AI engineer, researcher, and inventor experienced across cybersecurity, infrastructure, and automation. Registered PhD Researcher at the University of Greenwich, investigating security and trust in agentic AI. Creator of Chagu, an independent protocol development and AI security research initiative. Developing ML models, agents, and AI solutions, with continuing research into anomaly detection, provenance graphs, and blockchain-based accountability.

Education

PhD Researcher, Computer Science

University of Greenwich

Advanced Data Science — Professional Certification

Y-Data

Big Data Engineering — Professional Certification

NAYA College

Specialist Diploma — Mathematics & Statistics, Quantitative Finance Focus

Stavropol State Agricultural University

MBA

Bologna

Experience

Creator, AI Data Scientist & Researcher

August 2024 – Present
Chagu

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

Staff AI Engineer

2025 – Present
Dream team · Global corporation

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

Sr. DevOps & MLOps Engineer

2024 – End of 2025
Check Point
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE).
  • Developed and optimized continuous integration and delivery pipelines for seamless code deployments, reducing manual intervention and increasing efficiency across environments.
  • Managed cloud infrastructures on AWS, Azure, and GCP, focusing on high availability, security, and cost-efficiency in production environments.
  • ML workflows using platforms like SageMaker, Kubeflow, and MLflow. Automated model training, validation, and deployment processes, ensuring efficient scaling of machine learning models in production.
  • Worked closely with data science and development teams to ensure smooth integration of ML models into production environments, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) for both infrastructure and ML models to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution, including anomaly detection for model behavior.
  • Enforced security best practices across infrastructure, including the setup of automated vulnerability scans, access management, and data encryption.

Sr. DevOps & MLOps Engineer

2022 – 2024
Ezbob
  • Built ML algorithm infrastructure to execute over big data.
  • Optimized and parallelized ML algorithms to meet latency constraints on a parallel compute grid.
  • Created integrated ML solutions for DevOps.

Principal DevOps Software Engineer

2021 - 2022
Pagaya
  • Integrated ML algorithms into the decision-making process.
  • Created ETLs with Apache Airflow and AWS Glue.
  • Managed capacity planning, high availability engineering, and performance tuning.
  • Created alerts, implemented monitoring tools, and improved visibility to prioritize and track operational metrics in team management.
  • Developed and optimized build, release, and deployment toolchain.

DevOps, DataOps, Automation - Big Data

2020 - 2021
Pyramid Analytics
  • Updated and deployed machine learning models to production.
  • Worked on data acquisition and developed solutions capable of handling large datasets.
  • Developed data visualization tools for future exploration and model verification.

DevOps, DataOps Engineer

2019 – 2020
Infibond
  • Developed and maintained infrastructure for deploying ML models to production.
  • Created tools for data visualization and model verification.
  • Implemented data validation, security, access, and backup solutions.

Automation and Infrastructure Engineer

2016 – 2018
Ping Identity
  • Designed and tested automated processes.
  • Conducted integration and system tests using Java, Python, Ruby, Appium, and Selenium.

Projects

Here are some of the projects I've worked on, showcasing my skills in Machine Learning, DevOps and Software Engineering.

Chagu - Secure Data Transformation and Transfer Protocol - Protocol development and ongoing security research exploring secure data transformation, provenance graphs, blockchain anchoring, and anomaly detection.
SARAD — Anomaly Detection for SAR Images - Open-source pipeline combining statistical RX detection, autoencoder reconstruction, and anomaly score fusion for synthetic aperture radar imagery.
Price Predictor - Machine Learning for Price Estimation - A machine learning model developed to predict prices based on historical data, leveraging advanced algorithms and data preprocessing techniques.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - Automated infrastructure setup using Terraform, including VPC, EC2, and RDS instances.
Platform tool - Implemented a secure file transfer protocol using blockchain technology to ensure data integrity.
And more you can find here - Explore more of my projects on GitHub.

Publications

Skills & Proficiency

Python, Pandas & NumPy

Scikit-learn, XGBoost & LightGBM

Deep Learning (Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch)

Machine Learning Ops (SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow)

Data Wrangling & Feature Engineering

SQL, BigQuery & Data Lakes

Data Visualization (Plotly, Seaborn, Dash)

Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Security-Aware AI (Prompt Injection Defense, Blockchain Auditing)