{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Alex Varga","label":"ML Engineer experienced in AI Agent Infrastructure, Generative Media Infrastructure, Recommender Systems, DSLs, model routing and durable execution","email":"vargastartup@gmail.com","url":"https://alexvarga.xyz","summary":"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.","location":{"city":"San Francisco","region":"CA","countryCode":"US"},"profiles":[{"network":"X","username":"vargastartup","url":"https://x.com/vargastartup"},{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"alexmsecurity","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmsecurity"}]},"work":[{"name":"varg.ai","position":"Co-founder, CEO & CTO","url":"https://varg.ai","startDate":"2025-10","highlights":["One API and developer platform built for AI agents ($250K ARR): inference orchestration across 100+ frontier image, video and audio models, MCP servers, agent workflows and durable execution. Built, open-sourced and led GTM for varg.ai/sdk – a reusable DSL for multimodal generation and cloud GPU video rendering (0→1, end-to-end ownership).","Led discovery, technical scoping and production rollout for a strategic customer automating social media at scale: hired 2 teams and shipped multi-agent workflows (data collection, analysis, creative scripting, video generation pipelines and auto-posting) producing 30,000 videos/month.","For Simple ($160M ARR fitness app), owned end-to-end deployment of AI video coaches: ran model evaluation across candidate generative models, built a comparison matrix, and shipped a custom RIFE + image/video GPU pipeline to production – driving measurable adoption as their new app beat the main app."]},{"name":"VeyraX","position":"Co-founder & CTO","url":"https://github.com/VeyraX/veyrax-platform","startDate":"2025-02","endDate":"2025-07","highlights":["Shipped 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.","Built the developer platform and SDK around it: an Artifacts-style runtime, tool-calling agents with agent memory operating 80+ connectors via UI and API, and a 3,000-server MCP marketplace behind one API key.","Owned the integrations core end-to-end (tool-calling schema generation, OAuth integrations, MCP server deployments, Docker test infra, ~400 commits) and grew @veyraxai to ~1K followers."]},{"name":"BulkImageGeneration.com","position":"Founder","url":"https://bulkimagegeneration.com","startDate":"2024-07","highlights":["Built 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."]},{"name":"Good-Food.Ge","position":"CTO & Growth (exited)","url":"https://good-food.ge","startDate":"2024-07","endDate":"2025-06","highlights":["Joined 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, led technical scoping and production rollout of a custom ERP + CRM ordering platform, and ran fast experiments across acquisition and analytics – driving measurable impact (3x revenue, 30% profit margin) before selling my stake to the founder."]},{"name":"Newton (HF0, now: PolyFire)","position":"Founding Engineer","url":"https://polyfire.com","startDate":"2022-01","endDate":"2022-12","highlights":["First 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."]},{"name":"RH","position":"Head of AI & Platform (Co-founder)","url":"https://hack.moscow","startDate":"2017-09","endDate":"2022-02","highlights":["To scale technical hiring and AI competitions across Eastern Europe, built 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) across 40+ enterprise clients including NASA, Microsoft, McKinsey and Unilever, partnering with Major League Hacking."]},{"name":"Steinbeis Consulting Center AI","position":"Head of Applied AI Lab","url":"http://steinbeis.de","startDate":"2019-09","endDate":"2021-04","highlights":["Led 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; owned B2B sales, hiring and the team. Built and rolled out an AI receipt-recognition and retail-activation platform for enterprise clients including Electrolux and Sanofi, and won industrial ML challenges for Bosch."]},{"name":"Science Map, TU Berlin","position":"Lead Engineer","startDate":"2018-06","endDate":"2019-01","highlights":["Secured $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."]},{"name":"Yandex Ads","position":"ML Researcher","startDate":"2017-12","endDate":"2018-06","highlights":["Worked 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.","Built low-latency ads serving and ranking infrastructure in C and C++ for production-scale ML inference under tight latency and memory budgets."]},{"name":"Easy Ten","position":"Data Analyst","startDate":"2017-07","endDate":"2017-11","highlights":["Built 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."]}],"education":[{"institution":"Entrepreneurs First (Paris)","startDate":"2025","endDate":"2025","courses":["Selected founder"]},{"institution":"Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)","studyType":"BSc Applied Mathematics & Computer Science","startDate":"2014","endDate":"2018","courses":["GPA 4.75/5, math olympiad group"]},{"institution":"Yandex School of Data Analysis (YSDA)","studyType":"Data Science (Master's-level program)","startDate":"2016","endDate":"2018","courses":["NLP, computer vision"]}],"awards":[{"title":"MLH Top 50 Hackers of 2020"},{"title":"Parallels Scholarship (2015–2017)"},{"title":"Olympiad and hackathon prizes, $20K+"}],"skills":[{"name":"AI","keywords":["AI agents","tool calling","MCP servers","generative image, video & audio","inference orchestration","recommender systems & ranking","RAG & search retrieval","evals & online A/B testing"]},{"name":"Engineering","keywords":["TypeScript","Python","C","C++","Objective-C","Swift","DSLs & SDKs","model routing","durable execution","async job queues","OAuth connectors"]},{"name":"Leadership","keywords":["0→1 products","end-to-end deployment (discovery → scoping → rollout)","B2B enterprise sales","hiring & leading teams"]}],"languages":[{"language":"English"},{"language":"Russian"},{"language":"Hungarian"}],"projects":[{"name":"AI fitness video coaches for Simple","description":"Simple, a $160M ARR fitness app and category leader, wanted an ML pipeline for AI fitness video coaches. Ran R&D with my team, presented a comparison matrix of candidate models, and after they chose a custom pipeline, built and deployed it: RIFE frame interpolation plus image and video generation models.","highlights":["Simple launched a new app on the pipeline, and it reported higher metrics than their main app."]},{"name":"Ads recommender at Yandex","description":"ML research in Yandex Ads while studying at MIPT and the Yandex School of Data Analysis. Invented a new ads recommender system as my ML thesis.","highlights":["Increased ads revenue by 1–2% ($6–12M)."]},{"name":"Hack.Moscow and 50+ hackathons","description":"Co-founded RH, the market leader in hackathons and ML contests in Russian-speaking countries. Ran 50+ hackathons, mostly in AI: designed tasks and evaluation for Kaggle-like competitions and led the integrations with sponsors such as NASA, Microsoft and McKinsey.","highlights":["45K+ participants in total; Hack.Moscow brought participants from 52 countries."]}],"meta":{"canonical":"https://alexvarga.xyz/resume.json","version":"v1.0.0"}}