David Prokhorov

Telegram@ksetherg

Summary

Entrepreneur & builder with 7+ years in ML, data engineering, and DeFi. Architected and shipped complex products end-to-end, leading cross-functional teams. Strong math foundation; hands-on with scalable ETL, web apps, and ML models.

Experience

1inch Labs- dApp Product Owner

DEX aggregator

March 2025 - present

  • Transformed team productivity by implementing Agile practices (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives), doubling development velocity and increasing team autonomy through structured communication.
  • Led 20+ people cross-functional dApp team (PMs, FE, Design, PA, QA) from roadmap to on-time releases; set priorities, clarified ownership, and removed blockers.
  • Built leadership bench: coached team members with regular feedback, growth plans, and peer reviews to expand senior-level capacity and impact.
  • Strengthened team cohesion via offsites and structured team-building, improving collaboration and trust.
  • Delivered 1inch expansion to Solana network with intent-based and cross-chain swap integration.

1inch Labs- Crypto Portfolio Tracker Product Owner

DEX aggregator

January 2023 - March 2025

  • Shipped portfolio tracker to production; reached 2k DAU / 10k WAU / 30k MAU, 5–10 rps average load, 99.9% availability, NPS 33.5%. Led cross-functional team of 7 (PM, SWE, DA, FE, Design, DevOps).
  • Designed PnL computation over arbitrary time windows for on-chain assets within user portfolios.
  • Conducted 100+ user interviews to refine product UI/UX and drive iterative improvements
  • Introduced multi-wallet concept, aggregating all on-chain addresses into unified portfolios
  • Launched Portfolio Highlights of the Year: tried by 10k users, +30% WAU during the campaign.
  • Led end-to-end development of explore.1inch.io, a DeFi investment comparison tool covering 2000+ opportunities across 30 protocols and 12 blockchains, achieving 3k MAU

Quantor- Co-Founder

Blockchain analytics platform | Acquired by 1inch Labs

April 2022 - January 2023

  • Successfully exited - Quantor was acquired by 1inch Labs, becoming the foundation for their portfolio tracker product.
  • Architected and built a reliable ETL system for 3 EVM (eth, polygon, bsc) blockchains, managing over 100TB of data with a daily ingestion of 50GB.
  • Built high-performance crypto token price engine from DEX swaps using graph algorithms (Rustworkx) with recency/activity weighting; block-level prices for 10k+ tokens across 3 chains.
  • Engineered a profitability calculation system for Uniswap V3 positions, including fees, impermanent loss (IL), APR, and PnL.
  • Prototyped anti-fraud graph search across 250M addresses / 750M edges.
  • Optimized ClickHouse databases for fast API queries using AggregationMergeTrees

AESC MSU alumni community- Co-Founder

Alumni community

July 2024 - present

  • Co-founded and built alumni community for AESC MSU boarding school, growing to 350+ members across multiple countries.
  • Developed brand identity including logo design and visual guidelines for community recognition.
  • Organized and executed 10+ international networking events across Serbia, UAE, Russia, Germany, USA, Kazakhstan, and UK, fostering global alumni connections.

Mellow Finance- Quantitative Researcher

Trustless automatic DeFi strategies

August 2021 - April 2022

  • Built an open-source backtesting framework for on-chain strategies across Uniswap V3, Aave, Gearbox; increased strategy throughput.(https://github.com/mellow-finance/mellow-strategy-sdk).
  • Researched and implemented production-ready Uniswap V3 active liquidity management strategies.

Deeplight Technologies- ML Engineer

AI-assistance for oil & gas industry

February 2019 - March 2021

  • Built oil production prediction model outperforming industry baselines by 5%
  • Improved forecast accuracy of oil production prediction by 2-3% via training methods robust to non-stationary data.
  • Developed a lithology classification model using borehole logging data that achieved 1st place in the international Xeek.ai FORCE competition. [https://xeek.ai/challenges/force-well-logs/](https://xeek.ai/challenges/force-well-logs/)
  • Contributed to internal framework for reproducible ML pipelines
  • Implemented well stimulation technique probability prediction models

Samsung AI Center- Intern Engineer

Visual Understanding Lab

August 2018 - February 2019

  • Engineered an internal benchmarking system to evaluate the robustness of SLAM algorithms against state-of-the-art solutions, simplifying progress tracking.
  • Co-authored and presented a research paper on the robustness of SLAM systems at the MVA 2019 conference in Tokyo. (https://research.samsung.com/research-papers/Measuring-robustness-of-SLAM-systems)

Education

Lomonosov Moscow State University- BS & MS, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics

August 2014 - August 2021

  • Thesis: Learning on Non-Stationary Data, methods to improve model robustness under distribution shift.

Competitions

  • Definition Hackathon 2022: 2nd Prize - Portfolio tracker for Zerion
  • Definition Hackathon 2021: 2nd Prize - Address ranking system for Zerion
  • Moscow Travel Hackathon 2021: 1st Prize - Recommendation system for Tutu.ru
  • FORCE Competition 2020: 1st Place - Lithology prediction from wireline logs
  • Multiple ML Competitions: Seismic interpretation, COVID-19 forecasting

Publications