CV — Max Tkachenko, co-founder of Label Studio & HumanSignal
interested in
Research & Development: machine learning, neural networks, speech recognition
Video Production: cameraman, editing, compositing, vfx, 3d
Sound Engineering: recording, mixing
education
1 Musical School [1995-2002, secondary education]
Honors degree
2 Lyceum of Information Technologies #1533 [2002-2005, secondary education]
Programmer degree, Intel ISEF Third Award Winner
3 Lomonosov Moscow State University [2005-2010, higher education]
Master's degree, one of the best master graduate works
work experience
1 HumanSignal & Label Studio
[2019–today] Co-founder
Created Label Studio, the open-source data-labeling platform — 27k+ GitHub stars, 1M+ users, trusted by Cloudflare, NVIDIA, Meta, IBM and Intel
SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA-compliant enterprise platform
Raised a $25M Series A (led by Redpoint Ventures); $30M total
2 R&D: ASM Solutions
[2017-2019] Speech recognition, neural networks, high performance computing
3 R&D: Testarium (open source)
[2014-2019] Research tool to perform experiments and repository
4 R&D: STEL Computer Systems
[2011-2015] Speech recognition, neural networks, high performance computing
5 Teacher: Lyceum of Information Technologies #1533
[2010-2011] Scientific adviser, taught a programming course
6 R&D: Loopseque/MovBeats. Audio/Video sequencers for iOS
[2010-2012] C-Obj & C programming, sound engineering, concept generating
7 R&D: Adaptive noise reduction system based on multi-resolution FFT
[2007-2009] Online denoising service, programming
8 Freelancing
[2006-2019] Sound engineer: studio recording, mixing, mastering
[2007-2019] Web development: sites for small companies, programming, design
[2008-2019] Video production: cameraman, editing, compositing, vfx
9 NVF TIMIS, llc.
[2004-2022] Programmer, designer
10 R&D: Tool for plasma modeling and visualizing
[2003-2006] Particles configuration control in magnetic and electric fields
hobbies and interests
Bass-guitar, piano, music, sound
Cinema, arthouse, vfx
Swimming, sport, yoga
building & leadership
As a co-founder I work end to end on building a software company — well beyond the code:
0→1 product — from concept and architecture to a shipped, deployed product
Scaling — growing engineering and the team behind it
Solution architecture — designing deployments and integrations for enterprise customers
Customer success & support engineering — solving hard, real-world problems hands-on with customers, and building support into a real function
Product ownership — owning the roadmap from user need to release
Equal parts engineer, architect and product owner — happiest turning a rough idea into something real that people rely on.
engineering
Languages & web
Python (Django, DRF), JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Vue
C++, Fortran
ML & signal processing
Machine learning, neural networks, speech recognition
TensorFlow, PyTorch, DSP
Platform & data
PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery / RQ, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure
Other
Algorithmic / automated trading systems
media & creative
Film & VFX
Premiere, After Effects, Nuke, DaVinci Resolve
Photography
Lightroom, brushless gimbals
Sound
Adobe Audition, Ableton, Nuendo, iZotope
Mixing & mastering, psychoacoustics
languages & os
English, Russian
Linux, macOS, Windows