# Nikita Kotsehub > Building AI | SWE @ Palantir | Minerva University Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nikitakotsehub I am a Software Engineer at Palantir in New York City. I create empowering software products, operationalize machine learning models & LLMs, and automate monkey work. Sometimes I solve the world's most challenging problems for companies, and other times I work on implementing my silly ideas. When I am away from the screen, I usually hike, cycle around NYC, and read books. In my daily actions, I aim to be (1) curious, someone who constantly asks questions and researches new areas; (2) entrepreneurial, someone who takes a proactive stand in life and is not afraid of starting something new; and (3) mindful, someone who is aware of his choices and continuously reflects on consequences of his actions. Technologies and Languages: Python, TypeScript, React, Tensorflow, AWS, and more. Check out the full list as well as my projects at https://nikita-kotsehub.github.io/ If you are curious about any of my experiences or projects or just want to chat, don't hesitate to reach out. Cheers, Nikita ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States ### Research Assistant, Software Engineering @ University of Chicago Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Developed a Serverless Federated Learning library for experimenting with Federated Learning on edge devices. The paper was nominated for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards at IEEE eScience 2022 Conference: N. Kotsehub et al., "FLoX: Federated Learning with FaaS at the Edge," 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2022, pp. 11-20, doi: 10.1109/eScience55777.2022.00016. • Trained and deployed a Convolutional Neural Network across a network of edge devices to enable multi-staged real-time image processing. The codebase enables building serverless Edge-to-Cloud infrastructures in Python. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Viasat Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Carlsbad, California, United States • Built an internal sentiment analysis and reporting tool that enables teams to assess the product's real-time performance based on social sentiment. Built with Twitter & Slack APIs, Snowflake, SQL, Hugging Face Transformers, and Python. • Built an outlier-detection model that alerts team members via Slack notifications when a sudden drop in positive sentiment is detected. • Automated the deployment, reporting, and alerting by using Docker and Apache Airflow. ### Teaching Assistant for Multimodal Communications Course @ Minerva University Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Grading polls and assignments for students in Multimodal Communication Course - a course about effective written and verbal communication • Holding office hours to help out students with their assignments and confusions ### Writing Peer Tutor @ Minerva University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States • Taught 7 foundational writing skills to 40 undergraduate students at weekly sessions for a year • Designed and facilitated writing workshops on concise and precise writing within a team of 5 other tutors • Revised and improved lesson plans for the next year by analyzing qualitative and quantitative data from student surveys ### Data Engineer @ Sandbox Network Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seoul, South Korea • Developed a web-scraper using YouTube Data API that outputs statistics about a YouTube channel. It helps managers to choose partnerships with YouTube creators • Lead a team of three engineers in the process of developing a full-stack web-application for the web-scraper ### Data Analyst @ Sabudh Foundation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom • Researched and analyzed case studies that use data science for solving traffic issues in big cities • Designed a social impact strategy that utilizes data science for solving traffic issues in Hyderabad. The strategy includes the data-gathering process, stages of implementation, and impact assessment method ### Student Researcher @ VibeMap Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States • Researched the impact of gamification on a sense of belonging in cities, producing a literature review • Design a gamification strategy for the company's app within a team of 5 international students • Learned Adobe Illustrator and created a complete quality UI Design for the gamification features within a week, which was quite a surprise to me. ### FLEX City Representative @ American Councils for International Education Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Kherson Region, Ukraine • Volunteered for American Councils for International Education, representing my exchange program in Southern Ukraine. • Organized various social projects and events for youth, such as English speaking clubs, Model United Nations Camp, presentations about opportunities for youth and applying to international universities, movie nights, fundraising campaigns, visits to orphanages, and others • The experience required a lot of time and project management skills, financial planning, applying for grants, reporting results, and analyzing data ### Exchange Student @ Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Visalia, California, United States • Got accepted to the exchange program with a 2% acceptance rate • Lived in an American family, studied in an American high school, tried In-n-Out burgers, and got some cultural shock. 10/10 would recommend! • Volunteered over 200 hours, made over 30 presentations about Ukraine, and started my social project which resulted in donating $1200 of schools supplies to the Boys and Girls Club. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Minerva University ### El Diamante High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mykyta-kotsehub - Website: https://nikita-kotsehub.github.io/ - Website: https://nikitakotsehub.substack.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/nikitakotsehub JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nikitakotsehub/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05