Oleksandr Bagan

Oleksandr (Sasha) Bagan is a Ukrainian software and machine-learning engineer. He won a silver medal for Ukraine at the IMO 2011 as a student of Kyiv Natural-Science Lyceum No.145. He studied mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Bachelor's and Master's) and built a career in industry: full-stack development at LinkAlong, then a progression at DataRobot from Backend Engineer through Lead Software Engineer and Director of Engineering to Principal Software Engineer, and most recently Senior Machine Learning Engineer at the robotics/AI company Neo Cybernetica. His public record is engineering and ML; no quantitative-finance employment is documented.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. His documented employment is entirely software/ML engineering - LinkAlong (fullstack), DataRobot (backend to director to principal), Neo Cybernetica (senior ML engineer) - with no bank, asset-manager, hedge-fund, market-maker, or trading-firm role or internship found; the only index lead was a wrong-person match, and competitions, olympiads and student programs do not count as employment.
• Identity anchor: won silver at IMO 2011 for Ukraine (23 points), a graduate of Kyiv Natural-Science Lyceum No.145; his public Facebook lists 'KPNL No.145', linking the olympiad student and the ML engineer as one person.Aug 15, 2011
• A March 2022 Ukrainian news report names Oleksandr Bagan, 'director of software development at DataRobot', as co-developer of a refugee-registration system for Uzhhorod city council - corroborating the DataRobot director-level role from an independent primary news source.Mar 9, 2022
• Headline role is Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Neo Cybernetica; he appears as 'Sasha Bagan' with the same employer and math degree, and the GitHub account sbagan is named 'Sasha Bagan'.
• Career ladder at DataRobot from Backend Engineer -> Lead Software Engineer -> Director of Engineering -> Principal Software Engineer, before moving to Neo Cybernetica (LinkedIn enrichment, index-only).
• Neo Cybernetica is an AI/robotics company founded in 2021 by DataRobot alumni (incl. Jeremy Achin) and raised a $30M seed led by NEA - it classifies his current employer as robotics/AI, not quantitative finance.Jan 1, 2021
• Named inventor on DataRobot-assigned patents, alongside inventors incl. Edward Kwartler and Sarah Khatry - independent evidence of substantive engineering work at DataRobot.
• The caller-provided LinkedIn (oleksandr-bagan-852140a6) belongs to a different Oleksandr Bagan, a Senior Systems Engineer at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel - NOT the IMO 2011 contestant.
• Education: Bachelor's (2015-2016) and Master's (2016-2018) in Mathematics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (LinkedIn enrichment, index-only).
• Public speaker at fwdays conferences on MLOps ('ML in Production') and Physical AI/robotics ('Bringing AI to the physical world'), described as ex Principal Engineer at DataRobot and a former KSE (Kyiv School of Economics) teacher.