Nikita Z.

Nikita Z. has 8 years of professional experience in the field of data science and engineering. Nikita began their career as a Support Engineer at SysIQ, Inc. in 2009, followed by a similar role at PortaOne in 2008. In 2010, Nikita moved to Sippy Software, Inc. as a Support Engineer. In 2012, they joined EPAM Systems as a Senior System Analyst, where they were responsible for performing analysis and tests for Credit Risk applications, communicating with business users, investigating and resolving configuration and application issues, and leading middle and long-term projects. In 2014, Nikita joined Captify as a Data Scientist/Engineer, where they improved ML-based solutions, improved data quality of upstream data sources, fixed issues and improved main data pipelines. In 2020, Nikita moved to Shelf as a Machine Learning Engineer & Data Science Lead.

Nikita Z. obtained a Specialist degree from the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'\u200b in 2011, having studied Telecommunications from 2009 to 2011. Nikita also obtained a Bachelor degree from the same university in 2011, having studied Telecommunications from 2005 to 2011. Additionally, they have obtained several certificates, including a Machine Learning certificate from Coursera Course Certificates in 2016, an edX Honor Code Certificate for Scalable Machine Learning in 2015, an edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark in 2015, and two edX Honor Code Certificates for Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science.