Pavlo Puzikov
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Dubai · 2026

Portfolio·Dubai, UAE

Applied research.Immersive 3D, applied AI, generative video.

I track where technology is heading, then build the tools and prototypes that get there first.

3D Gaussian-splat reconstruction

Academic research

Two academic papers,in preparation.

The applied Gaussian-splatting work, written up for publication. The benchmark already guides which engine ships behind every scan in production.

  • Deploying Gaussian Splatting

    From Experiment to Production

    Production-deployment lessons across a 20-engine benchmark (6 evaluations run so far), a scan-difficulty taxonomy, and failure-mode reporting.

  • Mirrors and glass

    Reflection-Aware 5DGS

    Classified-quadric reflectors for the mirror-and-glass problem that breaks splatting in high-end interiors.

3

Production apps

Live, user-reachable

20+

Internal tools

Built and in use

~9

Pipelines

3D + ML, built or integrated

20

Engines integrated

Across the benchmark

Selected work

Selected work

Production research, applied AI, spatial.

  1. 3DGS Research cover: a luxury living room reconstructed as a volumetric Gaussian point cloud, the left dissolving into a red field of reconstruction error and the right resolving cleanly in teal, titled '3DGS Research' over the line 'Robustness, not the leaderboard'.

    01·3D & Spatial

    3DGS Research Pipeline

    In development

    20 Gaussian-splat engines integrated into one benchmark harness, 6 evaluations run so far. Which one actually survives a real luxury-interior scan, not just the leaderboard.

    CUDAgsplatPyTorchCOLMAP
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  2. Barnes Vantage cover: the live pilot app, a dark satellite map of Dubai with Palm Jumeirah visible, the headline 'A living map of Barnes 3D scans', and Explore, Rankings and Global Offering modes in the BARNES gold-on-black design system.

    02·3D & Spatial

    Barnes Vantage

    In development

    One map-led surface that folds the scan library, the live 3D viewer, and the listing intelligence into a single tool instead of four. Every point on the map is a real on-site capture; pick one and walk it in the browser.

    Next.jsMapLibre GLThree.jsgaussian-splats-3d
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  3. Data Atlas cover: the live ATLAS global real-estate-intelligence dashboard, a dark interface with a choropleth market map of Dubai neighbourhoods coloured by value, coverage stats, an entity breakdown and a market table.

    03·AI / ML

    Data Atlas

    In production

    An entity-centric valuation platform and on-demand AVM over 538K entities across 28 sources, with a MAPE and RMSE calibration and backtest harness; an internal snapshot showed ~7% MAPE.

    PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLCesium
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  4. Barnes Dubai LLM cover: a hand holding a phone showing the Barnes AI broker chat ranking Dubai neighbourhoods by rental yield, beside a gold bar chart of the same yields on near-black, titled 'Barnes Dubai LLM' over the line 'A broker's analyst, in seconds'.

    04·AI / ML

    Barnes Dubai LLM

    In production

    A domain-tuned LLM and agentic broker assistant for Dubai luxury real estate, a QLoRA fine-tune on 15,369 instruction pairs, running locally.

    PyTorchQLoRAOllamaPython
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  5. Innovation Portal cover: the real cockpit, an Innovation Portfolio dashboard showing 23 projects, 170 milestones and 345 tests with project cards and a sidebar, framed as a window on a dark gold-lit scene and titled 'Innovation Portal'.

    05·Product

    Innovation Portal

    In production

    Internal cockpit for the BARNES Dubai innovation team: project tracking, multilingual RBAC (EN / FR / AR), embedded Apache Superset BI, and a marketing-engineering toolkit (SEO/AEO/GEO, competitor console, Data Atlas, 3D Scans, CRM Copilot, an in-portal Barnes Dubai LLM assistant, and an AI content studio for marketing scripts and storyboards).

    Next.jsReactTypeScriptApache Superset
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  6. SEO, AEO and GEO Toolkit cover: a single luminous query at the centre radiating fine threads out to many softer points, an abstract impression of a query rippling to many answer engines, titled 'SEO / AEO / GEO' over the line 'Found in AI answers, not just search'.

    06·Marketing

    SEO · AEO · GEO Toolkit

    In production

    An audit, scoring, and first-party measurement toolkit for staying visible in AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) and in Google, scored from your own Search Console data, not a third-party broker's.

    Next.jsTypeScriptPythonpandas
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  7. Maison Margiela Residences Dubai, a frame from the branded-residences reveal film

    07·Marketing

    Generative Video & Creative

    In production

    Directing generative-video films end to end, from brief and storyboard to directing the shots to a delivered edit, working closely with talented videographers and editors, alongside creative direction across BARNES Dubai and Living Homes. The Marina Sozopol launch film ran to 27 storyboarded shots blending real footage, 3D renders, and AI-generated video; the In motion series carries the brand films, with the Maison Margiela Dubai Residences launch as the flagship.

    Storyboard & shot listImage-to-videoEdit decision listCreative direction
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  8. Smart Deal Global cover: the live smartdeals.global landing, an editorial luxury real-estate site with the headline 'Most real estate is noise. We curate the signal.' over a grid of curated property thumbnails.

    08·Marketing

    Smart Deal Global

    Live

    A public marketplace for luxury real-estate opportunities, multilingual (EN / AR / FR / RU), with hreflang and structured data tuned for search and answer-engine discovery. I built the first version of the site; a talented colleague has since drastically upgraded it.

    Next.jsi18nStructured dataEmailJS
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  9. Splatlas cover: the live splatlas.space app, the navigable 3D-Gaussian-splat solar system, a planet over a deep starfield with the intro to a solar system built from open NASA and USGS data.

    09·3D & Spatial

    Splatlas

    Live

    A navigable solar system where every world is a real 3D Gaussian splat, trained on a GPU from open NASA and USGS imagery and elevation, not a texture on a sphere. Fly through, warp to any planet, read it up close.

    3D Gaussian SplattingThree.jsgsplatWebGL
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  10. AriOS cover: a hand holding a phone showing the capture app classifying a photo into markdown notes, beside a glowing golden 3D point-cloud knowledge graph of the captured object with annotation callouts, titled 'AriOS' over the line 'Capture it, then actually learn it'.

    10·AI / ML

    AriOS

    In beta

    A personal knowledge companion that captures what you see, read, and hear into an Obsidian vault, then helps you actually learn it. A Knowledge Trainer turns notes into flashcards, grades your free recall, and schedules spaced-repetition reviews. Local-first; vault sovereignty is the hard constraint.

    TypeScriptExpressTelegram Bot APICloudflare Workers AI
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  11. House Call cover: the live housecallastro.com landing, a dark celestial page with a glowing chart graphic and the headline 'Three traditions. One synthesised reading.' over a starfield.

    11·Product

    House Call

    In beta

    Invitation-only natal-reading practice. Hand-prepared readings synthesise Western, Chinese BaZi, and Vedic Jyotish, backed by per-user accounts, daily astronomy-engine transits, a falsifiable prediction tracker, synastry, and tarot import.

    Next.jsPrismaTursoJWT
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Recognition

Two brands represented on-stand at four international tech expos.

  • BARNES Dubai
  • Living Homes
  • GITEX Global 2025 · Dubai, UAE2025
  • GITEX Asia 2025 · Singapore2025
  • LEAP 2025 · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia2025
  • GITEX Global 2024 · Dubai, UAE2024

Practice

The areas I keep returning to.

Seven interlocking lanes. Research feeds product, product feeds engineering, engineering feeds the brief that wins the partnership.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

Fine-tuning, retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer vision.

  • Large language model fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA)
  • Retrieval-augmented generation
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Agentic workflows

Engineering (the instrument)

A means, not the message: the toolset I reach for to prototype, integrate, and ship what research turns up. Most implementation now runs through agentic coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity); my edge is architecture, integration, and getting it to production.

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Next.js
  • React

Product & Research

Trend scouting to value-prop validation to roadmap framing.

  • Technology and trend scouting
  • Immersive-tech and AI prototyping
  • Value-proposition testing
  • User research

Generative video and creative direction

Directing AI-generated films end to end, and creative direction across brand marketing.

  • Generative-video direction (brief to storyboard to shot list to edit)
  • Storyboarding and shot lists
  • Image-to-video and generated key frames
  • Creative direction across brand marketing material

Marketing & Business Development

International technology expos, partnerships, and demand generation across four languages.

  • GITEX, LEAP on-stand business development
  • Partnership development
  • Brand activation
  • Marketing-material direction (graphics, video, copy)

Data and intelligence

Benchmarking, sizing, correlation, geospatial risk, business intelligence.

  • Traffic & performance benchmarking
  • Market sizing
  • Correlation analysis
  • Audience research

3D & Visualisation

Real-time 3D, photogrammetry, AI-assisted media for storytelling.

  • 3D Gaussian Splatting
  • Photogrammetry
  • LiDAR scanning
  • Cesium

Tools in the kit

AI Coding Agents

Claude Code · Google Antigravity · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · GitHub Copilot

Generative Media

Midjourney · Sora · Runway · Veo · Flux · Stable Diffusion · AI voice & music

3D & Spatial

3DGS capture & editing · LiDAR / photogrammetry · Cesium · Three.js · Blender

Web Design & Build

HTML/CSS · Figma · Framer · Webflow · Wix · Squarespace

Productivity

Notion · Linear · Twenty CRM · HubSpot · LinkedIn Sales Navigator · Google Workspace

Analytics and business intelligence

Apache Superset · PostHog · Google Analytics · Similarweb · Semrush · Ahrefs

The lens

Where the work comes from.

Cinema is the first lens. Editorial design is the second. The work sits between those two and the systems I build, which is why even the research artefacts try to look like something you’d want to keep.

Drawn to the places where applied AI starts touching physical space: scanned interiors, generated rooms, city-scale capture, multi-agent orchestration that compresses a week into a morning. My personal projects are where new techniques get tested before they touch a client product.

Beyond the studio, I’m an admin and avid member of the Gaussian Splatting Community on LinkedIn, the practitioner hub where the field’s research crosses into production.

Self-portrait·In pointers

  • Craftsman by training, with a writer's instinct.
  • Built for systems-level work that spans domains.
  • Comfortable holding a technical and a strategic conversation in the same room.
  • Drawn to briefs that are consequential and where the craft is visible.
  • Expertise compounds: durable through sustained practice, not bursts.
  • Builds long-running partnerships, the lasting ones usually begin as friendships.

Contact

Pick a thread and pull it.

For research collaborations, product prototyping, applied-AI engagements, or just a conversation about where the next bets are.