Nick Bilozerov is a software engineer originally from Ukraine who dreamed of building computer games as a child. After completing a master’s degree in Computer Science, he instead found himself building shopping carts and booking systems, and along the way discovered a lasting interest in engineering for real users at scale. He has accumulated nine years of experience as a software engineer, with the last five years focused on the data and machine learning field.

His career includes roles at Flixbus and at a retail startup similar to Zalando before he joined Delivery Hero, where he has spent the last three years on the Product Data and ML team, part of the Global Data Department. There he concentrates on data and ML infrastructure and data pipelines, helping data scientists deliver machine learning solutions to customers. His backend engineering background gives him a pragmatic view of what it takes to move models from notebooks into dependable production systems.