Professional Bio
Julian Kaljuvee is a Director of Predictive Labs Ltd, an AI and Data Science consultancy, and consulting AI Engineer at Microsoft within the Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) group. He has delivered several AI-focused projects for international clients across a wide range of sectors, including semiconductors (ARM Holdings, NASDAQ: ARM), biotech (Vaxart Inc., NASDAQ: VXRT), and financial services (London Stock Exchange Group, LSE: LSEG), Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN), Anglo American (LSE:AAL), as well as ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company), among others.
Julian’s early professional background was in investment banking in New York and London (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, JPMorgan), and he holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and has studied probability theory and statistics at the master’s level at Columbia University in New York, NY.
Professional Experience
- Predictive Labs Ltd (Mar 2020 - Present): AI / ML Engineer / Data Scientist
Selected projects / clients:
- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) - implemented GenAI enteprise use cases, such as RAG with Microsoft’s global clients, including model evaluation and fine tuning.
- Vaxart (NASDAQ:VXRT) – building bio AI and data science models for a US publicly traded biotech, including manufacturing optimization and using generative AI to drive insights.
- ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) - development and productionisation of demand forecasting / royalty and non-royalty revenue prediction model based on external (alternative) data sets for a leading semiconductor design and manufacturing.
- Worldremit - revenue / sales forecasting, cloud migration, reconciliation of EOD and EOM finance activities for a global Fintech.
- IKEA - data warehouse for group wide KPIs and business strategy planning for IKEA / INGKA group.
- Nomad Foods - developed and productionised media / marketing mix model (MMM) based on the industry standard Nielsen model to measure advertising / media effectiveness spend (ad stock decay, competitor data) for the largest frozen-food / FMCG retailer in Europe, marketing channels.
- Nandos - sales / demand forecasting, data infrastructure development / data lake, POS, loyalty, rota, weather, wifi and geolocation and delivery data integration for a major restaurant chain.
- DBRS Morningstar - supporting development and deployment of EU RMBS rating models for a leading global financial analytics and ratings provider integrating with European Data Warehouse (over 2bn records); model building and deployment: (i) data analysis / visualisation, (ii) data cleansing and transformation (data sets with over 100m records), (iii) model development, feature engineering and model evaluation with statsmodels, Logistic Regression, GAM and XGBoost, (iv) model deployment and productionisation with MLFlow (v) presentations to business stakeholders
Previous roles in quantitative analysis, trading and risk management included positions at leading financial services companies such as:
Finance
- Finespresso - AI-driven financial news alerts for capital markets.
- IPOGate - platform to generate IPO documentation / prospectus samples.
- Macrohive News LLM - AI-generated signals based on macroeconomic news.
- Art Index - visualizing publicly available art auction prices globally.
- Land Index - visualizing land prices in Estonia.
Biotech and Healthtech
Insurance Claim and Invoice Fraud Detector
Sales, Ecommerce and Advertising
- ABC Kliima Product Catalogue Chat - a simple chat demonstrating how one can query product catalogue on the fly.
- Furniture Compay AI CRM - this application helps furniture manufacturers automate the RFQ (Request for Quote) process by analyzing project specifications and generating detailed cost estimates.
Generative AI and ML
Startups
- Mentastic (2024 - Present): Co-founder / Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
- Part of a team building a multi-modal agentic AI platform to improve mental well being and to design interventions.
- Bondora (2007 - Present): Co-founder / Non-executive advisor
- One of the four co-founders of a leading VC-backed consumer lending marketplace in the EU (over 800m EUR lent as of Jul-2023). Participated in defining company go-to-market and technology strategy, advised the management in seed, bridge, and Series A rounds (Valinor Capital, Global Founders Capital / Rocket Internet). Provided industry insights and advised on governance and strategy, including relevant market introductions.
- EstateGuru (2014 - Present): Co-founder / Non-executive advisor
- One of the three co-founders of a leading VC-backed property bridge lending marketplace in the EU (over 700m EUR lent as of Jul-2023). Participated in defining company go-to-market and technology strategy, advised the management in seed, bridge, and Series A rounds (Speedinvest, Seedrs). Provided industry insights and advised on governance and strategy, including relevant market introductions.
- Investly (2014 - Present): Co-founder / Non-executive advisor
- One of the two co-founders of a leading VC-backed SME invoice finance marketplace in the EU. Participated in defining company go-to-market and technology strategy, advised the management in seed, bridge, and pre-series A rounds (Speedinvest, Seedrs). Provided industry insights and advised on governance and strategy, including relevant market introductions.
Education
- Harvard University, BS in Applied Mathematics and Economics
- Columbia University, MS in Statistics and Probability Theory
You can connect with me on LinkedIn or X and check out my projects on GitHub.