Alex Varga
Tech Founder in AI
About
- 28 years old, founder, best result: $500K ARR
- Math Olympiads and Hackathon Winner (15+ awards)
- ex-AI Research in Yandex Ads
- at 19yo, I founded my first AI Company, raised $175,000, and hired 9 people
- Inspired 40k devs to build startups (ex-YC, 500, EF)
Work Experience
Stealth Mode
2023 - 2025
Building a LLM-Infrastructure System
Founding Engineer, Newton (HF0'22)
2022-2023
Web3 data aggregator from 30+ social networks
- Built scalable Django + Python DevOps infrastructure
- Achieved 15K+ users and top-1 SEO ranking
- Growth campaign '17 Days of Cairo' reached 200K+ users
- Improved retention-14 above market average
Co-founder, Hack.Moscow & 50 other hackathons
2018 - 2022
Inspired 40K+ devs to build startups (we have YCombinator, 500 Startups, Entrepreneur First Alumni)
- Organized events with 45K+ total attendees
- Achieved 40-45% local market penetration with a SaaS platform
- Hosted MLH CEO Mike Swift at Hack.Moscow (1,000 attendees, 50 countries)
- Clients are NASA, Microsoft, McKinsey, Unilever
Founder, Steinbeis Consulting Center AI (STAI)
2020-2022
AI Consultancy Based in Stuttgart and backed by Steinbeis Foundation
- Scaled from 0 to full sales + dev team
- Created a Predictive Maintanance Model For Reduced production costs by 30% for FMCG clients
- Built custom rec-sys product for email marketing, boosting e-commerce sales
Co-founder, CTO, w2w.group and Science Map
2018-2020
Led development of AI-based SaaS solutions
- Launched platform reaching 50K+ active users
- Improved customer LTV through AI optimization
- Managed 10-person team and raised $175K
Software Engineer at Yandex
2017-2018
AI Research in Ads and Search
- Developed algorithms for ads and search using hardcore C++
- Achieved 1-2% revenue increase (~$6-12M)
- Optimized recommender systems performance by improving ML-quorum
Side Projects
"Velocity is King". In 2024 I had a challenge building projects to improve my velocity as a software engineer. I shipped solo ~10 projects in 12 months, the most interesting are:
- BulkImageGeneration.com
AI-powered bulk image generation (create up to 100 images instantly)
- Brogevity AI
100% AI-generated, personalized longevity newsletter (1,000+ members)
- ProtocolsHero.com
Anti-aging protocols from notable people
- Pelo.Live
Turn your content into a newsletter with AI
- FemaleTON
Web3 period-tracking Telegram mini-app on TON Blockchain (Awarded by TON Foundation)
- GemX.me
High-volume airdrops on steroids (Winner @ TON Hackathon)
- OverlookedHealth
AI assistant for diagnosing overlooked diseases (website is n/a)
Awards
- O1 Extraordinary Talent Visa by USCIS
- Top-50 Hacker 2020 by Major League Hacking
- Numerous Olympiads & Hackathon winner (15 awards)
- EU-Patent (EP3719671A1)
- Parallels Scholarship Scholarship Prize Laureate for Students with High GPA (2015-2017)
Education
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2014-2018
BSc.
- #1 in Russia, #45 in the World (2022), "the MIT of Russia"
- Transferred to the most advanced class that had 3 IMO-winners, 9 Russian mathematical olympiads winners
- My BsC. in Rec. Sys gave +$12M revenue to Yandex
- On 3rd grade I hired 9 people to build an AI startup (raised $175,000 at 19 y.o.)
Yandex Data School
2016-2018
One of the most comprehensive data science program in Europe
- Used C++ and Python to build NLP models (LSTM, Transformers), and CV models (VGG-16, YOLO) from scratch
Lyceum "Second School"
- Top #3 (2024) School in Russia
- My teachers were committee of IMO, IPHO
- A school with history that has graduated renowned academicians, entrepreneurs and industry leaders
- I won 9 math, physics, and informatics national olympiads including International Math Tournament of Towns (IMTT)