Stepan Pushkarev

Stepan Pushkarev is co-founder, CTO and CEO of Provectus, according to the company's leadership page. Provectus describes itself as an AI systems integrator that builds and operates production AI and data systems for enterprises in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, according to its careers site.

Starting With Distributed Data

Provectus dates its origin to 2010 and says it started with distributed data platforms and systems. Its team contributed to open-source projects like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and Presto, according to the company. It then grew into data and analytics, cloud work and, later, machine learning and AI.

Running Machine Learning in Production

Pushkarev also co-founded Hydrosphere.io and served as its CEO and CTO, according to the Data Engineering Podcast. In that interview he discussed how his team tracked key metrics and sampled production data to retrain and redeploy models. In a later episode he explained why deploying and maintaining machine learning projects in production differs from regular software. The show described Hydrosphere as the first open source platform for data science and machine learning management automation.

Focusing on Healthcare and Finance

Provectus built two industry practices, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Financial Services, according to its leadership page. Its homepage lists more than 150 customers in production and more than 400 AI builders and consultants, and it prices some engagements by milestone.