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Name Aliaksei Pilko
Label Senior Data Scientist & Simulation Engineer
Email jobs@aliakseipilko.com

Work

  • 2024.07 - Present
    Senior Analyst (Data Science & Simulation Engineer)
    AiQ Consulting
    Technical lead for next-generation airport simulation platform, responsible for architecture, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
    • Led development of integrated airport simulation replacing unstable legacy tooling; stack: Python, Django, React, CesiumJS, Docker, GCP.
    • Built CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry).
    • Introduced Dagster-based data pipelines for company-wide data lake; improved project data reuse and reduced per-project setup time by days.
    • Mentored two junior engineers from data backgrounds to full-stack developers, reducing key-person risk.
    • Technical lead on £180k Heathrow optimization project: developed and presented actionable & evidence-based recommendations reducing Polars, DuckDB, Dagster.
  • 2020.05 - 2024.06
    Researcher / PhD Candidate
    University of Southampton
    Research in UAS operational risk analysis and airspace simulation, combining probabilistic modeling, HPC simulation, and real-world data integration.
    • Developed probabilistic and agent-based UAS risk models using Monte Carlo and rare-event simulation. Productionized into full stack web app and used in flight trials.
    • Architected 500k-records/day pipeline for novel sensor data (cameras, radars, passive RF) with 99 % uptime (Kafka, Docker, Go, TimescaleDB, Grafana) for DfT Innovation project.
    • Developed high-performance C++ risk and deconfliction libraries with Python bindings (Eigen, GEOS, OpenMP). Integrated into web app for field trials.
    • Led development of multi-objective logistics optimization system combining research from multiple universities into deployed web app (Flask, React, Gurobi, ipopt).
    • Automated classification of 60 k medical-goods PDFs via web-scraping + Gemini/Vertex AI, leading to follow on grant funding.
  • 2019.05 - 2019.09
    Machine Learning Intern
    Tekever
    Developed ML models for maritime surveillance UAVs.
    • Enabled autonomous monitoring of 10x larger maritime areas through ML trajectory prediction and anomaly detection of ship movements.
    • Integrated ML models into UAV GCS systems for field deployment in bandwidth-limited environments.

Education

  • 2021.02 - 2024.06
    PhD
    University of Southampton
    Computational Engineering
  • 2017.09 - 2020.06
    BEng
    University of Southampton
    Aerospace Engineering