The team

Shad Helper

Rustem Kazakbaev

Founder & COO

Rustem won the Russian national olympiad in Economics. Now he is a student in the #1 university for economics in Russia the top 100 in the world - Higher School of Economics.

Rustem has two successful businesses: ShadHelper in EdTech and Tools for Procreate in digital illustration. Besides that, he is a strong contributor to the Russian Data Science community. He has prominent articles on Habr with strong support from data science community.

Alexander Lykov

Founding Principal & Author

Alexander holds PhD in Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is an active researcher at MSU Probability Department and has authored articles on a variety of topics. For the last 10 years he works on quantitative trading strategies. Currently he works in a hedge fund which advises Teza Technologies.

Emil Kazakbaev

Managing and Founding Principal. Co-founder of HelperProducts OU

Emil studied Financial Engineering at EPFL. For the last 5 years he worked in a hedge fund, which is an advisor to Teza Technologies. He serves as quantitative trader for the firms algorithmic strategies on a variety of instruments.