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Pavlo Puzikov

Generative Video · Real-time 3D · Applied AI

Dubai, UAEpavlopuzikov@gmail.com/in/pavlo-puzikov

Profile

An innovation and product researcher working across immersive 3D, applied AI, and generative video. The work spans a real-time Gaussian-splat research pipeline, directing generative-video launch films, earning brand visibility inside AI answer engines, and representing brands on-stand at global tech expos. The throughline is taking an emerging technique from first experiment to something a business can put in front of a client.

Core competencies

  • 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, Prompt engineering (LLM and image), since Nov 2022, Generative-media direction, AI video generation, Applied research, Computer vision, 3D Gaussian Splatting.

  • 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, Node.js, FastAPI, PyTorch, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Tailwind, Vercel, AWS, Docker, Linux.

  • 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, Roadmap framing, Competitive teardowns.

  • 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, Content strategy and on-brand QA, Working the client production process.

  • 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), Creative content QA and review, Campaign and content ideation, Search and answer-engine optimisation, Multilingual content, LinkedIn and content strategy, Demand generation.

  • Data and intelligence

    Benchmarking, sizing, correlation, geospatial risk, business intelligence. Traffic & performance benchmarking, Market sizing, Correlation analysis, Audience research, Web-data extraction, Geospatial risk modelling, Apache Superset, PostHog.

  • 3D & Visualisation

    Real-time 3D, photogrammetry, AI-assisted media for storytelling. 3D Gaussian Splatting, Photogrammetry, LiDAR scanning, Cesium, Three.js, Blender, Real-time 3D, AI-assisted media.

Tools

  • 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.

Experience

  1. Product Innovation Researcher · BARNES Dubai

    Jun 2025 to Present

    Dubai, UAE

    Lead the technology and innovation research function: investigate emerging techniques in 3D, applied AI, and product, then prototype and benchmark them into high-value proofs of concept. The strongest earn buy-in and grow into MVPs with the teams that build them, three are live in production today. BARNES is the world's largest international luxury real-estate network (60+ countries).

    • Built and shipped Atlas, entity-centric valuation platform with hex-grid geospatial risk modelling and six-month price forecasts.
    • Fine-tuned Barnes Dubai LLM on 15,369 instruction pairs and deployed via Ollama, now serving brokers over WhatsApp; wrapped in a multi-agent research system that turns days of analyst work into on-demand briefs.
    • Directed the Marina Sozopol launch film with the marketing team (a second in development): storyboard, shot list, directing AI-generated shots, and edit across client-feedback rounds; built an AI content studio that turns a brief into a script, shot list, and storyboard.
    • Productionised the 3DGS research pipeline (scanned interiors, AI-generated scenes for unbuilt properties, city-scale capture); writing it up as two academic papers, in progress.
    • Stood up the Dubai Digital Twin; first georeferenced building (Onyx Tower) is live in property-search flow.
    • Built the Innovation Portal, executive cockpit with project status, valuation analytics, competitive signal, multilingual RBAC, embedded Apache Superset business intelligence.
    • Shipped the live customer-facing surfaces, Splat Viewer (web-native 3DGS with mobile tap-to-move), Smart Deal Global (public marketplace), and the Innovation Portal, alongside the internal tools and pipelines that feed them, built with agentic AI workflows over twelve months.

  2. Marketing & Partnerships · Living Homes

    Jun 2025 to Present

    Dubai, UAE · promoted from Market Research Specialist

    Own marketing, partnerships, digital presence, and creative direction across all marketing material for a luxury smart-home developer. Co-drive global expansion alongside BARNES Dubai.

    • Run the brand's official LinkedIn and the wider digital-channel mix, drives qualified inbound from regional partners and end clients.
    • Represented Living Homes & BARNES on-stand at GITEX Global 2024/2025 (Dubai), LEAP 2025 (Riyadh), GITEX Asia 2025 (Singapore). Helped expand both brands into Saudi Arabia and Southeast Asia.
    • Continuous competitive research across traffic, positioning, pricing, features, outputs feed product, sales, and partnership decisions directly.
    • Track the broader innovation and technology landscape (AI, immersive tech, PropTech) and brief stakeholders on opportunities for the product.
    • Coordinate regional partner relations across the Gulf and EU; produce multilingual marketing materials.

  3. Market Research Specialist · Living Homes

    Sep 2024 to Jun 2025

    Sofia, Bulgaria

    Studied emerging AI and smart-home applications across EU and UAE real-estate markets.

    • Built a custom multi-agent research system that automates competitive-website analysis, structured extraction, and ranked-insight reporting.
    • Analysed positioning, traffic, and feature sets across 50+ smart-home and PropTech vendors; surfaced differentiation gaps and partnership opportunities.
    • Tracked advancements in applied AI, computer vision, and spatial computing; distilled implications into executive strategy briefs.
    • Produced insight artefacts (market maps, opportunity briefs, competitor teardowns) used to inform expansion and partnership decisions.

  4. Web Design & Development Intern · W Korea

    Jun 2024 to Aug 2024

    Seoul, South Korea (remote)

    • Contributed to web design and front-end development workstreams within a brand-led editorial environment; produced layout, motion, and asset work for a flagship fashion-publishing title.

  5. Marketing Intern · Hyundai Motors New Zealand (Inspire Marketing)

    Nov 2022 to Feb 2023

    Auckland, New Zealand

    • Delivered campaign work across Hyundai Motors NZ, Isuzu Utes NZ, and Renault NZ spanning advertising, web, social, market research, email, and copywriting.

  6. Customer Vehicle Representative · Hertz New Zealand

    Jul 2022 to Nov 2022

    Auckland, New Zealand

    • Customer-journey engagement and operations work across the rental lifecycle.

Education

  • Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing and Management

    The University of Auckland

    Aug 2020 to Dec 2023

  • Secondary Diploma

    Scots College, Wellington, New Zealand

    Feb 2014 to Nov 2019

Foundations

  • Introduction to Data Analytics
  • Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

Languages

  • Englishfluent
  • Russianfluent
  • Ukrainianworking
  • Frenchworking

Speaking and events

  • 2025GITEX Global 2025Dubai, UAEOn-stand business development · Living Homes & BARNES Dubai
  • 2025GITEX Asia 2025SingaporeRegional expansion · Living Homes & BARNES Dubai
  • 2025LEAP 2025Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSaudi market entry · Living Homes & BARNES Dubai
  • 2024GITEX Global 2024Dubai, UAEOn-stand business development · Living Homes
3D Gaussian Splatting cleaning ablation, raw versus cleaned point clouds across difficulty levels

Selected research and output

  • 3D property scans, in production

    One pipeline that turns a raw property scan or a single street-view image into a shareable, walkable 3D model, consolidating what used to be twenty-plus scattered steps. Live behind BARNES property search.

  • Applied 3DGS, written up for publication

    The applied Gaussian-splatting work (luxury-interior scans, generated scenes for unbuilt properties, city-scale capture), as a Tech Communications submission in preparation.

  • Virtual de-staging (research prototype)

    Strips the furniture out of a scanned room so a buyer can re-stage it virtually: detect, segment, inpaint, then re-derive depth.

  • Reflection-aware capture (research prototype)

    Mirrors, glass, and polished marble break naive splatting; a reflection-aware method recovers them, the dominant failure mode in luxury interiors. First convergent run on a real scan.