Serg Pokrovskyy

Serg Pokrovskyy has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. In 2005, they began their career as a System Administrator at Lviv Academic Gymnasia, where they set up and managed their physical and virtual network infrastructures, as well as a self-hosted web-portal. Serg also implemented a MySQL-based DB solution for student scores recording and GPA calculations. Serg then worked as a freelancer at WebLancer.net. In 2006, they joined Eleks as a Software Engineer, Team Lead, and Project Manager. Serg was responsible for the complete redesign of a major real estate property management desktop application and the development of a commercial real estate management system. In 2009, they became the CEO, CTO, and Co-founder of Kartinka Inc., an in-image Internet advertising network. In 2013, they began working as an independent Software Engineer and freelancer at UpWork.com. Serg then joined PayByPhone in 2020 as a Data Scientist, AI/ML Engineer. In this role, they built a customized ML pipeline and a set of geospatial models to infer parking locations. Finally, they are currently the Chief Technology Officer at Skipper.io, a Social Learning Platform that supports parents and educators.

Serg Pokrovskyy began their education in 1999 when they attended Lviv Academic Gymnasia, where they studied Mathematics, Physics, and languages (English, German) until 2006. From 2006 to 2011, they attended National University "Lviv Polytechnic," where they obtained a Bachelor and Master degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and English. In 2019, they began a Master degree in Data Science at The University of British Columbia, which they are currently completing.