Andrii Balashov

Andrii Balashov

Senior Software Engineer | ML/AI

About

I am a Senior Software Engineer and RL Researcher combining 10+ years of large-scale system engineering with academic inquiry. I focus on deep learning and RL, pursued in collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Ukrainian State University of Science and Technology. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science, serve as an Elsevier peer reviewer, and lead the WordPress AI team.

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Maker History

  • ReturnFast
    ReturnFastA global Back button for your Mac
    Jul 2026
  • Ovotio
    OvotioSell tickets to your performance
    May 2026
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntMay 8th, 2026

Forums

Product Huntp/producthunt•

25d ago

Vercel Day winners are in 🎉

Winners from Vercel Day are confirmed. Top prize, a meeting with Vercel Ventures plus Startup Perks, goes to Nitrosend : it gives AI agents their own email inbox, so they can sign up for things and reply on your behalf instead of routing everything through yours.

Four more walk away with Vercel Startup Perks: Alert Grouping by DrDroid collapses a flood of monitoring alerts down to the ones actually worth waking someone up for. Paradigm turns any goal into a personalized, adaptive learning path. In Parallel MCP by gives every agent you run access to the same context instead of starting cold every time. Zro runs private inference for coding agents.

Congrats to all five teams. Go check out their launches and give them some love.

Product Huntp/producthunt•

25d ago

Vercel Day winners are in 🎉

Winners from Vercel Day are confirmed. Top prize, a meeting with Vercel Ventures plus Startup Perks, goes to Nitrosend : it gives AI agents their own email inbox, so they can sign up for things and reply on your behalf instead of routing everything through yours.

Four more walk away with Vercel Startup Perks: Alert Grouping by DrDroid collapses a flood of monitoring alerts down to the ones actually worth waking someone up for. Paradigm turns any goal into a personalized, adaptive learning path. In Parallel MCP by gives every agent you run access to the same context instead of starting cold every time. Zro runs private inference for coding agents.

Congrats to all five teams. Go check out their launches and give them some love.

Product Huntp/producthunt•

25d ago

Vercel Day winners are in 🎉

Winners from Vercel Day are confirmed. Top prize, a meeting with Vercel Ventures plus Startup Perks, goes to Nitrosend : it gives AI agents their own email inbox, so they can sign up for things and reply on your behalf instead of routing everything through yours.

Four more walk away with Vercel Startup Perks: Alert Grouping by DrDroid collapses a flood of monitoring alerts down to the ones actually worth waking someone up for. Paradigm turns any goal into a personalized, adaptive learning path. In Parallel MCP by gives every agent you run access to the same context instead of starting cold every time. Zro runs private inference for coding agents.

Congrats to all five teams. Go check out their launches and give them some love.

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