Viktor Passichenko

Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in machine learning, full-stack development, and data pipelines. Recently, I’ve been working at GELU AI, co-developing a TensorRT-based engine and experimenting with speculative models. I’ve also worked at Zoox, contributing to the self-driving car simulation platform, and at Meta, where I helped launch the first neural translation model for Facebook. In addition to this I have a background in game development, co-creating the indie game OVIVO, which has sold over 200k copies across platforms

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• Represented Kazakhstan at IOI 2007 (Zagreb) winning a Bronze medal, rank 103/285 with 246 points - the olympiad origin that anchors this profile.Aug 21, 2007
• Career path Google (Zurich, 2012-13) -> Facebook (2013-16) -> Instagram (2017) -> Abnormal Security -> Zoox -> Gelu AI -> Augment Code, so the olympiad-trained background carried straight into big-tech ML/software and now AI tooling.Jan 1, 2025
• Currently an AI Engineer at Augment Code (Palo Alto), a company building an AI coding agent, after ML work at Gelu AI and self-driving simulation at Zoox - consistently at the applied-ML frontier.Jan 1, 2025
• Competed at IOI in 2005, 2006 and 2007 (a long three-year national-team run) before enrolling at Saint-Petersburg State University in 2007, per the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame timeline.Aug 21, 2007