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General Information

Full Name Mischa Lisovyi
Born 1985
Languages English, German, Ukrainian, Russian
Address Dachsen, 8447, Switzerland

Experience

  • 2020 - 2023
    Senior Data Scientist
    Migros-Genosenschafts Bund, Zürich, Switzerland
    • Definition of tasks for the team in the agile work environment
    • Review of the team members' code
    • Mentoring less experienced team members and sharing knowledge in the internal meetup
    • An ETL pipeline for data ingestion and processing
      • local python scripts with multi-process parallelisation using pandas + joblib
      • Airflow with python scripts in pods and scala jobs on Spark
    • Store revenue modelling using LightGBM and Lasso regressions in python
    • User-facing dashboard application using dash running in k8s using a docker image
    • Testing using pytest with 60% coverage over 25k+ LoC + code linting and type checks
    • Implementation of CI/CD pipelines in gitlab
    • A/B testing of the project success
  • 2019 - 2019
    Customer Care Data Scientist
    KNIME, Constance, Germany
    • Implementation of model interpretation algorithms: K-LIME
    • Customer support for KNIME Server and PoC preparation crafted to user needs
  • 2018 - 2018
    Kaggle competitor
    • 9th place out of 7000+ teams (top 1% and gold medal) on a kaggle.com competition
    • 3 silver medals for kernels with total on 10000 views
  • 2015 - 2018
    Physics Researcher
    Universität Heidelberg
    • Assessed classifiers of heavy particles exploiting designed features: DNN and GBT have shown twice better performance than historic methods.
    • Mined through events on huge datasets of 100+ PB using high-throughput computing with data visualisation on a local machine.
    • Developed a software toolkit for the Data Quality Monitoring for a heterogeneous HW system.
    • Led a team of developers.
  • 2011 - 2014
    Research Fellow
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
    • Advanced parallelisation of high-precision Monte Carlo predictions taking more than 100.000 CPU hours.
    • Boosted the speed of production by 60%. Reduced the time of calibration of a key detector by a factor more than 2.
    • Led a physics group of 10+ people.
  • 2008 - 2011
    Research Assistant
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
    • Engineered a new feature, that allowed to improve physics measurement by factor 2 in precision.
    • Leading efforts in Monte Carlo production with the high-throughput computing on the GRID. Doubled the annual event production rate.

Education

  • 2008 - 2011
    PhD
    Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
    • Measurement of charm production in deep inelastic scattering using lifetime tagging for D± meson decays with the ZEUS detector at HERA
  • 2003 - 2008
    MSc
    Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Open Source Projects

Hobbies

    • Hiking 🥾
    • Surfing 🏄
    • Bouldering 🧗
    • SUP ☀
    • Cocktails 🍸