Alex Varga
ML engineer and ex-Yandex ML researcher (YSDA) building AI products from 0 to 1. Built AI agent and generative media infrastructure (DSL, model routing across 100+ models, MCP, durable execution) and a profitable bootstrapped SaaS. At Yandex, engineered the #1 ads ranking factor that lifted revenue by $6–12M.
San Francisco, CA@vargastartupin/alexmsecuritySecurityQQCV
Experience
- varg.aivarg.aiCo-founder, CEO & CTO · Oct 2025 – nowOne API and developer platform built for AI agents ($250K ARR): inference orchestration across 100+ frontier models, MCP servers, agent workflows and durable execution. Built and open-sourced varg.ai/sdk (DSL for multimodal generation and cloud GPU video rendering). Hired 2 teams to ship multi-agent workflows producing 30,000 videos/month, and deployed an AI video-coach GPU pipeline for Simple ($160M ARR) whose new app beat their main app. · Co-founder, CEO & CTO
- VeyraXVeyraXCo-founder & CTO · Feb 2025 – Jul 2025Shipped embedded AI components to production in early 2025 — live Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Jira data rendered as interactive UI inside agent workflows — ~8 months before OpenAI and Anthropic. Tool-calling agents with agent memory operating 80+ connectors via UI and API, a 3,000-server MCP marketplace; owned the integrations core and grew @veyraxai to ~1K. · Co-founder & CTO
- BulkImageGeneration.comBulkImageGeneration.comFounder · Jul 2024 – nowBuilt and shipped to production a 0→1 product for image generation at scale: small businesses generate up to 100 images in parallel via an AI agent workflow and inference orchestration pipeline, with programmatic SEO driving profitable growth from month 1. · Founder
- Good-Food.GeGood-Food.GeCTO & Growth (exited) · Jul 2024 – Jun 2025Joined a 10-person meal-plan delivery business as a partner with end-to-end ownership of tech and growth: hired the engineering and digital marketing teams, shipped a custom ERP + CRM ordering platform, and ran fast experiments across acquisition and analytics — driving 3x revenue and 30% profit margin before selling my stake to the founder. · CTO & Growth (exited)
- Newton (HF0, now: PolyFire)Newton (HF0, now: PolyFire)Founding Engineer · Jan 2022 – Dec 2022First hire working directly with the CEO (0→1, end-to-end ownership): built a knowledge retrieval, document search and people-ranking engine aggregating data across 50+ social networks, hired and led the engineering team, and shipped to production — driving 3x organic growth to 50K users, 15 customers, 13 partnerships, #1 SEO ranking and 20% of the StarkNet ecosystem. · Founding Engineer
- RHRHHead of AI & Platform (Co-founder) · Sep 2017 – Feb 2022Built a proprietary hackathon-as-a-service platform with automated ML evals and benchmarks — capturing ~45% market share across Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Delivered 50+ hackathons and ML contests for 45K+ participants (incl. Hack.Moscow with 52 countries) for 40+ enterprise clients incl. NASA, Microsoft and McKinsey. · Head of AI & Platform (Co-founder)
- Steinbeis Consulting Center AISteinbeis Consulting Center AIHead of Applied AI Lab · Sep 2019 – Apr 2021Led R&D and end-to-end deployment of applied AI products (discovery → technical scoping → production rollout) at one of Central Europe’s largest innovation hubs. Built and rolled out an AI receipt-recognition and retail-activation platform for Electrolux and Sanofi, and won industrial ML challenges for Bosch. · Head of Applied AI Lab
- Science Map, TU BerlinScience Map, TU BerlinLead Engineer · Jun 2018 – Jan 2019Secured $175K in EU startup grants to build a scientific literature search and knowledge-retrieval platform: hired 9 top developers from MIPT, relocated key engineers to Germany, and shipped the MVP to production. · Lead Engineer
- Yandex AdsYandex AdsML Researcher · Dec 2017 – Jun 2018Worked across Ads Monetization and Search (BSc thesis, research → production): evaluated and ensembled 200+ production ML models and engineered the #1 ads ranking factor, lifting Yandex Ads revenue by 1–2% ($6–12M ARR) in online A/B testing. · ML Researcher
- Easy TenEasy TenData Analyst · Jul 2017 – Nov 2017Built the analytics stack from scratch for hundreds of thousands of users, engineered an online experimentation and ad automation platform managing $100K/month in ad spend (running 70% of Facebook ads A/B tests), and grew an automated Instagram acquisition channel to 75K followers. · Data Analyst
Education
- EFEntrepreneurs First (Paris)Entrepreneurs First — co-founder matching programme. Selected founder, Paris cohort. · Founder
- MIPTMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)BSc Applied Mathematics & Computer ScienceMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology. GPA 4.75/5, math olympiad group. · BSc Applied Math & CS
- YSDAYandex School of Data Analysis (YSDA)Data Science (Master's-level program)Yandex School of Data Analysis, in parallel with MIPT. NLP and computer vision. · Data Science, master’s-level
Also
Top-200 League of Legends player in Europe at 16. ~15 olympiad and hackathon wins. Sold AI-generated art for 1 ETH in 2019, before NFTs. Speak Russian and Hungarian. Sauna, Reading Club, Tennis, Math (for fun).
Contact
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