I BUILD BACKENDS AND THE ML THAT RUNS ON THEM.

Specializing in high-performance distributed systems, robust data pipelines, and integrating applied machine learning models into production environments with uncompromising reliability.

Alex Pivovarov
ROLE Backend / ML Engineer
FOCUS Dist. Systems / Applied ML
STATUS Stanford Summer Session '26
LOC Leeds, UK

01 PROJECTS

PRJ-01

ARGUS — AI CITY-OPERATIONS SYSTEM

NVIDIA HACK FOR IMPACT LONDON

Watches all 900+ live TfL cameras simultaneously, detects traffic incidents, and predicts congestion cascades before TfL's own feed catches them.

Nemotron 70B on DGX Spark runs two-pass triage and causal analysis across a live multi-camera firehose. RAPIDS cuDF GPU DataFrames with z-score anomaly detection and cross-camera lead-lag correlation (r=0.8x) predict cascades before TfL's disruption feed fires. YOLO11x handles real-time vehicle detection — raw CCTV never leaves the box. NeMo Retriever + Chroma provide vector memory over every observation. ElevenLabs Conversational AI voices Nemotron's reasoning on demand.

NEMOTRON 70B RAPIDS cuDF YOLO11x NeMo RETRIEVER ELEVENLABS DGX SPARK
Coverage
900+
Live TfL Cameras
AWARD
1ST PLACE
ElevenLabs Prize Track
6mo Scale · $299/mo
PRJ-02 // ANALYTICS

GHOSTPLOT — CARBON PORTFOLIO OPTIMISER

UCL CSRI × PGIM HACKATHON
GhostPlot at RealTech Hack GhostPlot team

5-agent pipeline that identifies, validates, and optimises carbon-saving investments across real estate portfolios with incomplete data. Scavenger loads portfolio data → Inspector infers missing parameters with confidence scores → Physicist runs Bayesian MCMC for carbon estimates with 94% credible intervals → Risk rejects high-uncertainty estimates (>30%) → Optimiser runs Integer Linear Programming to select the max-impact portfolio. Philosophy: understand uncertainty, don't eliminate it.

PYTHON BAYESIAN MCMC ILP
AWARD
2ND PLACE
Embodied Carbon Track
£1,500
PRJ-03

HYPERGATE — CROSS-CHAIN BRIDGING WIDGET

ENCODE CLUB HACKATHON
HyperGate interface

A white-label bridging widget that lets any application offer seamless cross-chain deposits directly into Hyperliquid. Built in ~50 hours on one night of sleep.

Three core components: a React widget handling wallet connection via RainbowKit, chain selection (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, and more), transaction signing, progress display, and error recovery — an Express.js API recording deposit attempts in PostgreSQL, tracking transaction status through each stage (pending → bridging → depositing → completed), receiving webhooks on completion — and smart contract interactions handling the actual fund movement across chains.

REACT RAINBOWKIT EXPRESS.JS POSTGRESQL SMART CONTRACTS
AWARD
2ND PLACE
LI.FI | Hyperliquid Track
$2,250
COMMUNITY
3RD PLACE
Most Loved Project
PRJ-04

FUNIVERSE — CONDITIONAL FINANCE PROTOCOL

ETHOXFORD
FUniverse at ETHOxford

An experimental prediction market that lets users express market beliefs without exiting their XRP positions — stake XRP, mint FXRP, and participate in oracle-resolved outcome markets.

Built on Flare Network. CompleteMarkets.sol handles ERC20-based Yes/No token pairs per market, resolved trustlessly via Flare's FTSO oracle at ~1.8s block latency. FAssets integration converts XRP → FXRP via 3-step minting (reservation → execution → completion). Smart Accounts register atomic approve + placeBet operations, with XRPL payment triggers executing EVM transactions via encoded memos — enabling cross-chain betting without direct EVM interaction. Price feeds (BTC/USD, ETH/USD, XRP/USD) polled via bytes21 identifiers and stored in SQLite for historical resolution.

SOLIDITY 0.8.25 FLARE FTSO FASSETS XRPL ERC20 SQLITE
AWARD
1ST PLACE
Flare Network Track
$1,000
PRJ-05 // SYSTEM

ROLODEX — REAL-TIME B2B VERIFICATION AGENT

HACKEUROPE '26

B2B contact data decays 20–30% per year. Rolodex verifies in real time and shows you exactly what it's worth.

Scrapes LinkedIn via headless browser, cross-references employer sites, and sends confirmation emails — with an AI agent autonomously deciding which tools to call (website → LinkedIn → email), reasoning about cost vs. confidence at each step. Streams agentic verification live in a React Agent Workbench. Generates a Value-Proof Receipt after every batch: exact API costs vs. SDR hours saved. Outcome-based billing: pay for value, not subscriptions.

PYTHON FASTAPI REACT SUPABASE LANGFUSE
Applications
4,000+
1,000 selected builders
Acceptance Rate
~25%
Europe's Largest Hackathon

02 EXPERIENCE

2026 LONDON, UK ON-SITE
AI ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ML
Associate

AI ENGINEER EUROPE 2026

Conference · London

A high-signal conference bringing together senior developers, AI researchers, and infrastructure providers building AI in production.

Managed sessions with engineers and researchers from Adaptive ML, Cursor, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Google DeepMind, incident.io, Intercom, iterate, Microsoft, Neo4j, Red Hat, Stripe, Supabase, Superlinked, Tailscale, and WorkOS — gaining firsthand exposure to what better AI-assisted programming looks like at scale. Keynotes from leaders at Anthropic, Earendil, Legora, Linear, OpenAI, and Vercel provided a wider view on where the industry is headed.

ANTHROPIC OPENAI GOOGLE DEEPMIND VERCEL DATABRICKS STRIPE
MAY 2024 1 MONTH LONDON, UK ON-SITE
MACHINE LEARNING
Student Internship

IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

Full-time · Academic Research

Completed an internship under the supervision of an Imperial College London PhD student.

  • Gained foundational knowledge in optimisation, vector spaces, and multivariable calculus — partial derivatives, gradient vectors, Hessian matrix, and analysis of critical points.
  • Learned and applied unconstrained optimisation algorithms, including gradient descent and Newton's method.
  • Applied theoretical concepts to solve a real-world optimisation problem.
workspace_premium Certificate of Completion — Computational Methods in Optimisation & Multivariable Calculus