Vladyslav Hamolia

Staff AI Engineer

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About

With 9+ years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, and data-driven product development, I currently serve as a Staff AI Engineer at MacPaw. My work focuses on building ML solutions for macOS and iOS products, including on-device AI, NLP, computer vision, and predictive modeling. I also contribute to defense technology projects, applying AI/ML methods to computer vision, sensor data analysis, and audio recognition tasks.

Experience

State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection

Machine Learning / AI SpecialistSep 2024 — Present

Applied AI/ML projects in the defense technology domain, with most details subject to NDA. Work focuses on computer vision, structured data analysis, trajectory prediction, and audio recognition for military-related use cases.

  • Computer Vision: detection and recognition of aerial objects, including UAVs and FPV drones.
  • Trajectory Prediction: analysis of structured sensor data to predict aerial object movement.
  • Audio Recognition: classification of military-related sound sources.
  • Synthetic Data Generation: creation of synthetic datasets to support model training and evaluation.

MacPaw

Staff AI EngineerDec 2025 — now

AI Product Lead / Lead Data ScientistOct 2024 — Dec 2025

Senior Data ScientistAug 2020 — Sep 2024

Advanced AI/ML solutions for products used by millions of iOS and macOS users: defining ML strategy, leading applied R&D, and developing production-ready machine learning systems across NLP, computer vision, predictive modeling, and privacy-preserving AI.

  • Computer Vision: semantic segmentation, object detection on photos and videos, image classification, and image reconstruction/enhancement (image inpainting).
  • NLP: text classification, metric learning, information extraction and processing, Multi-Agent systems design, RAG pipeline development, and LLM fine-tuning.
  • Predictive Modeling: forecasting customer lifetime value (LTV) and customer churn.
  • Federated Learning: training neural networks for computer vision directly on user devices, improving models while preserving data privacy.

Kyiv School of Economics

Academic Director of Artificial IntelligenceMay 2023 — Feb 2024

Created and launched a Bachelor's program in Artificial Intelligence aligned with modern industry standards, emerging AI trends, and labor market needs. Designed a curriculum combining theoretical foundations with practical AI engineering skills. The program currently has 140 students. I also support collaboration between MacPaw and KSE to strengthen industry-academia connections in the technology sector.

FairmarkIt

Senior Data Scientist / Team LeadOct 2019 — Mar 2021

Led development of a comprehensive search solution for platform efficiency in the Supply Chain sector, heading a team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers. Developed a multilingual semantic search algorithm to optimize search across various languages.

  • Deep learning-based search engine with Learning-To-Rank functionality.
  • Domain-specific hierarchical text classification with custom BERT-based models.
  • ML infrastructure on AWS; scalability and reliability through best-practice adoption.

Eleks

Data ScientistSep 2018 — Sep 2020

Designed and developed data science solutions for a diverse range of clients across multiple industries.

  • Embedded Systems: optimized neural networks for resource-constrained devices via quantization, pruning, and inference acceleration; built an internal CV framework similar to ONNX.
  • Security: robust object tracking for video surveillance using SORT, DeepSORT, and YOLO-based detectors.
  • Healthcare: semantic segmentation for medical image analysis with U-Net and FCN architectures, supporting clinical decision-making.

SoftServe

Python Software EngineerFeb 2016 — Sep 2018

Developed and enhanced a large-scale American e-commerce project — from software design to integrating machine learning technologies.

  • Robust web-scraping systems with asynchronous data retrieval and optimized data pipelines.
  • Python best practices: modular design, unit testing, continuous integration.
  • NLP models automating text data processing, integrated into the existing project ecosystem.

Education

National University "Lviv Polytechnic", Faculty of Cybersecurity

Key competencies

ML Stack:
numpy, scipy, OpenCV, pandas, gensim, nltk, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, CoreML
Databases:
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Memsql
Cloud:
AWS, Google Cloud
OS:
Linux, macOS