# Bogdan Gorelov > AI Engineer & Data Scientist · Paris, France. Applied AI. Scientific depth. The drive to ship. Bogdan Gorelov combines hands-on AI engineering, a rigorous data science education, and the energy of a hackathon builder. His work spans enterprise AI tooling, competitive search algorithms, synthetic data, privacy, and financial technology. He brings curiosity to unfamiliar problems, turns ideas into working systems, and keeps iterating until the result is useful. To explore this portfolio, first choose a world at https://kepard.dev/ or open one of the live world links below. Each world presents the same person, projects, achievements, and shared guestbook through a different interactive design. Coming-soon cards are not destinations. Last updated: 2026-09-11. This is an owner-authored profile generated from the same maintained content used by every portfolio world. I'm Bogdan, a final-year AI & Data Science master's student in Paris. I turn ideas into useful AI systems — and learn by building, breaking, and trying again. **Professional experience** At BNP Paribas, I work in an AI-focused team as an apprentice Data Scientist / AI Engineer. I'm actively contributing to a LangChain framework used by dozens of business teams, bringing AI out of the notebook and into everyday work. - Data Scientist / AI Engineer · BNP Paribas · Apprenticeship · Sep 2025 — Sep 2027. **Strengths, with evidence** - **Engineering with real users in mind:** Connects experimentation to practical tools and workflows. His apprenticeship puts him close to the challenges of making AI useful across business teams. Evidence: [Professional experience](). - **Scientific rigor:** Cares about the reasoning behind a solution, not just a convincing demo. His team's scientific-approach award is concrete evidence of that mindset. Evidence: [Hi!ckathon 2025](). - **Algorithmic problem-solving:** Works with explicit search strategies and efficiency tradeoffs, bringing depth beyond high-level AI integrations. Evidence: [AI Dual Sudoku](). - **Momentum under constraints:** Enjoys turning an open-ended challenge into something real with a team. Hackathons are a regular part of how he learns and builds. Evidence: [OpenAI Privacy Hackathon](). - **Responsible, domain-aware AI:** Explores AI where privacy, financial rules, and the consequences of a system matter alongside its capabilities. Evidence: [Fintech Hackathon](). - **Creative product instincts:** Makes technical work inviting to explore. His portfolio presents the same professional content through playful, interactive worlds. Evidence: [Interactive portfolio worlds](). **Achievements** - [OpenAI Privacy Hackathon]() — **Winner**. 2026-09-04 · Paris, France. Hackathon winner. Winner of the OpenAI Privacy Hackathon in Paris. Building at the intersection of AI and privacy. - [Hi!ckathon 2025]() — **Best Scientific Approach**. 2025-12-01 · Hi! PARIS Hackathon. Capgemini Best Scientific Approach Award. Recognized for the scientific approach behind our team's solution at the Hi! PARIS Hackathon. **Education** - M2 · IASD · Université Dauphine–PSL · 2026/2027 · In progress. - M1 · Data Science · Université Paris-Saclay · 2025/2026 · Completed. - Computer Science Bachelor · L3 · Université Paris-Saclay · 2024/2025 · Completed. - Computer Science Bachelor · L1 & L2 · Université Paris-Est Créteil · 2021/2024 · Completed. **Technical focus:** Applied AI · Data science · LangChain · Adversarial search · Minimax · Alpha–beta pruning · Monte Carlo tree search · Synthetic data · Pattern mining · AI privacy · Financial technology. **How he works** - **Urgency:** Turn ideas into action quickly. Test early, learn fast, and keep momentum. - **Impact:** Build things that make a difference. - **Ambition:** Stay curious. Aim higher. Keep shipping. **Interests:** Applied AI · Developer tools · Responsible technology · Financial technology. You'll often find me at hackathons, conferences, and technology events — meeting builders and turning a weekend idea into something real. Away from the keyboard, I'm into sports, especially water sports, electronic music, and a healthy dose of careermaxxing. **Conversations to have:** Open to ambitious conversations. - **Recruitment:** A profile to explore for applied AI engineering, data science, and developer-tooling opportunities. Review his apprenticeship, technical projects, and CV alongside the requirements of the role. - **Hackathons:** An enthusiastic teammate for building an AI prototype, testing an approach, and explaining the technical choices behind it. - **Conferences and communities:** A builder interested in exchanging practical lessons about enterprise AI, privacy, financial technology, and learning through projects. ## Choose a world - [Minecraft](): A little world of my own. - [Windows XP](): You caught me with everything open. ## Selected projects - [Fintech Hackathon](): AI-powered compliance analysis for EU financial institutions. - [AI Dual Sudoku](): A competitive Sudoku AI using Minimax, Alpha–Beta pruning, MCTS, and bitmask optimizations. - [Synthetic Data Generation](): Generating synthetic transactional data to benchmark pattern mining algorithms. - [Hi! PARIS Hackathon](): Our winning scientific approach at Hi!ckathon 2025. ## CV and contact - [CV / résumé](): The owner's linked CV. - [Email](): hi@kepard.dev. - [GitHub]() - [LinkedIn]() - [X]() - [Hugging Face]() ## Live sources - [Shared profile API](): Current source of truth for personal information, achievements and worlds. Shared profile last updated: 2026-09-10. - [Public projects API](): Current public GitHub repositories with centralized curation, refreshed independently of this selected-project summary. Document revision: 76e5c631be5787fa8c9c8ce753c5bf4d4aa18a4c5d45550cf9f99e48bcd49d38.