Dmitrii Lapin

linkedin // @lapin_dv // @digitaloutsider

<aside> <img src="/icons/mountains_gray.svg" alt="/icons/mountains_gray.svg" width="40px" /> 8+ years in DA/DS management and analytics, especially in manufacturing and e-com. Started as a researcher in University Lab. After that worked in AI startup Factory5 as a product manager, later as a lead of R&D Laboratory. In 2021 became a Head of DA/DS in Big IT Company JSA Group. Later as a Business Development Officer improved performance in the key DA/DS products in global markets. Then performed as product owner in Yango with robotic solutions for darkstores and as implementation manager. And right now flexing as a Head of AI and AI Expert in different startups. The main competencies are leading in deep-tech areas, especially in DA/DS, managing and organizing cross-functional teams of up to 30 people: developers, business and data analytics, designers, marketers, etc.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/briefcase_gray.svg" alt="/icons/briefcase_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Head of AI (Aug 2024 – Now) – RetailHub (cool retail startup in UAE)

Responsibilities: creating AI technologies from scratch and making AI-first solutions for retailers in part-time

Accomplishments:

• Developed product matching based on text and images with cascade architecture from TF-IDF to multimodal comparison
• Accompanied CV project about scanning shop’s shelves - increase product matching precision metrics from ~65% to +90%
• Created end-to-end BI analytics for CV product matching

AI Expert (Sept 2024 – Now) – FORTIS

(another cool POS startup in UAE)

Responsibilities: developing PoC and internal features based on AI-agents for marketing and sales streams

Accomplishments:

• Created PoCs of AI implementations in SMB cases
• Designed automatization AI scripts for CRM and Sales

Professor (Jun 2024 – Now) – IT Career Hub

(German education centar)

Responsibilities: leading product analytics courses from scratch for beginners - theory and practice

Accomplishments:

• Recreated course materials: from HADI to A/B/n tests
• Successfully trained students with a 3-month course

Product Lead (Jun 2023 – May 2024) – Yango (aka Yandex)

Responsibilities: owning a robotics solution for darkstores and implementing software services to clients

Accomplishments:

• Determined product-market fit, north-star metric and business effects from scratch in 2 months
• Challenged current technologies with system design, found bottlenecks, considered them in use cases
• «Killed» and «revived» product on different technologies and prepared MVP view for development team
• Performed the design phase for end-to-end darkstore software services for new big client

BDO (Feb 2023 – March 2023) – JSA Group

(big IT company)

Responsibilities: creating data-driven product strategy, managing a cross-functional team

Accomplishments:

• Transformed 21 products from 48 projects based on market research and technology readiness level
• Packaged 21 products in sales kit and successfully used it in sales
• Conducted 3 pre-sales with external clients, led 2 products to deals

Head of DA/DS (2021 – 2023) – JSA Group

(big IT company)

Responsibilities: leading DA/DS unit, producing DA/DS solutions, developing DA/DS business processes

Accomplishments:

• Reduced operational costs of client business by 2,4M $ per year
• Produced flagman computer vision project on 5 factories and 300+ cameras from scratch
• Successfully completed a pack of 10 DA/DS projects with a total budget 5M $

Lead of R&D Laboratory (2020 – 2021) – Ctrl2Go

(top-5 Integrator in heavy industry)

Responsibilities: managing unit and conducting DA/DS research

Accomplishments:

• Made and led company research matrix
• Hired and organized a team of 6 excellent specialists
• Successfully completed a pack of DA/DS projects with a total budget 2,5M $

Product Manager (2019 – 2020) – Factory5

(my first AI startup)

Responsibilities: managing B2B AI products for heavy industry from scratch

Accomplishments:

• Created MVP of ML app for sound anomaly detection of equipment in year
• Successfully completed a pack of 3 ML projects with a total budget 1,5M $

Researcher (2016 – 2019) – Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Responsibilities: carrying out R&D projects and their parts in AI and Robotics

Accomplishments:

• Successfully completed 7 R&D with a total revenue 1M $ </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/sunglasses_gray.svg" alt="/icons/sunglasses_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Challenges

• Led development of look-alike and response ML models in business unit «hiring» for top-3 RU e-com
• 1st place in Volga Iron Hack, 3rd place in EVRAZ AI Challenge, solo 4th place in BIG GEN AI Hackathon
• Demo for game jam Vas3k.Club Jam V, won 1st place and got honest review

Mentor in DA/DS: 20+ mentee, helping with training in DA, DA/DS case solving on Solvery, GetMentor

Ex-Scientist in Robotics and AI: 34 papers, 20 in SCOPUS / WoS, 2 in Q2/Q3

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<aside> <img src="/icons/graduate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/graduate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Master (2010 – 2016) – GPA: 4.9 / 5

PhD (2016 – 2020) – GPA: 4.5 / 5

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<aside> <img src="/icons/asterisk_gray.svg" alt="/icons/asterisk_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Languages: Russian (native), English (B2)

Stack: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Notion, Superset, SQL, Python

Hobbies: CrossFit, enduro, DIY for home, whiteboards

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