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Sheet 05 — about

Oleg Żero

Independent AI consultant · hands-on engineer · passion for CAD

I'm a tech entrepreneur with 15 years of applied, interdisciplinary R&D behind me — an enthusiast of practical problem-solving in a business context. I'm good at getting people moving forward, even when the objectives are incomplete and the work is highly exploratory.

My background is AI/ML, not CAD by training — and that's the point. Since 2024 I've deliberately specialised in CAD and geometry, a space where the AI world and the CAD world still speak different languages. I've shipped production ML across aviation, medicine, e-commerce and forestry; now I bring that depth to drawings, meshes and fabrication.

Alongside client work I train engineers — including at Eskadra Bielika — and publish peer-reviewed research.

Selected roles

2024–26
AI Team Leader — DAC.digital
2022–26
ML Engineering Lead — Fetcherr (airline pricing)
2021–22
Senior Data Scientist — Roche (diagnostics)
2019–21
Data Scientist — Webinterpret (e-commerce, eBay)
2017–19
CTO & co-founder — Mode Sensors (edge AI)
2013–16
Sr. Engineer — Atmel (FEM, touch screens)

Education

MSc
Photonics — Erasmus Mundus, Ghent / VUB (BE)
MSc
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) — 1st Prize
PhD cand.
Optical Si sensors — NTNU (NO)