Mikhail Zolotko Email & Phone Number

Germany

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

investify TECH is a SaaS provider in the wealth management sector, offering a versatile modular platform that empowers wealth managers to digitize and automate their processes.Responsibilities:• Spearheading the specification and end-to-end implementation of essential data processing workflows • Assuming product ownership for analytical software modules• Designing a data quality control framework• Developing tools to automate internal manual processes• Designing… Show more investify TECH is a SaaS provider in the wealth management sector, offering a versatile modular platform that empowers wealth managers to digitize and automate their processes.Responsibilities:• Spearheading the specification and end-to-end implementation of essential data processing workflows • Assuming product ownership for analytical software modules• Designing a data quality control framework• Developing tools to automate internal manual processes• Designing and implementing internal reporting and business intelligence solutions• Serving as a critical liaison between several departments, translating technical and business language to ensure mutual understanding and bridge communication gapsAchievements:• Implemented business-critical data processing workflows that enabled successful data migration projects, which led to doubling of the volume of AuA (assets under administration)• Implemented tools that reduced task completion times for colleagues in operational roles by up to 50% • Designed and implemented from scratch internal reporting for several stakeholders • Pioneered the use of Python within the company as the primary tool for data processing and analysis Show less

CryptoSearchTools is a platform designed for discovering early-stage tokenized startups and obtaining essential information for informed investment decisions.Responsibilities:• Designing, estimating and validating predictive machine learning models• Developing algorithms making use of state-of-the-art large language models to solve business tasks

Munich

Consulting an early-stage start-up: ideation, market research, contribution to building a quantitative data-driven product

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

mVISE is an IT consultancy and a software development firm specializing in cloud computing, data infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning.Responsibilities:• Internal projects / research (analysis of the impact of news on financial market performance; urban sound classification)• Client project on weather data analysis: suggested and implemented efficient retrieving, decoding and preprocessing of raw data despite insufficient API documentationLeft 4… Show more mVISE is an IT consultancy and a software development firm specializing in cloud computing, data infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning.Responsibilities:• Internal projects / research (analysis of the impact of news on financial market performance; urban sound classification)• Client project on weather data analysis: suggested and implemented efficient retrieving, decoding and preprocessing of raw data despite insufficient API documentationLeft 4 months after the start due to personal circumstances Show less

I followed a self-designed program to gain practical knowledge of machine learning methods, tools and related topics.• Theoretical part: literature and online courses on databases, machine learning, deep learning, data visualization, programming in Python and R, agile development• Practical part: Participation in data science competitions on kaggle.com (best result: top 4%), participation in hackathons

• Project on redesign of a data quality framework at a global bank: delivered functional specifications based on multiple new business requirements due to regulatory changes and client-specific needs• Project on designing the user interface for applications automating sales and advisory processes at a top-5 German bank: delivered functional specifications and drafted interface prototypes based on minimal initial business requirements and several feedback rounds

Munich Area, Germany

• Annual audits at a major German regional bank: responsibility for auditing transaction-intensive trading processes, corresponding financial statement items, models and methods of market risk management and methods of market conformity control• Consulting projects on regulatory and accounting-related topics at major German banks: delivered functional specifications serving as a subject matter expert

Munich

• Annual audits at a major German regional bank: data analysis leading to repeated identification of process deficiencies and substantial errors in the financial reporting• Responsibility for transaction-intensive trading processes

Berlin

Contributed to development of market, industry and company profiles, carried out financial benchmarking of current and potential clients

M.Sc., Finance & Quantitative Methods

M.A. (Hons), Risk Management

B.A. (Hons), Finance