Michael Velychko

Selected work

Cases

Products I owned, managed or built — from VR training simulators and live shows to AI agents. Newest first.

Applied AI · 2026

Synthetic AI Focus Groups: Project Avatar

A SaaS platform where AI persona agents walk through a digital product and report where and why they drop off — taken from discovery to a closed-cohort pilot.

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Applied AI · 2026

EW-Resilient Target Recognition: Unreal Engine + YOLO

Synthetic jamming simulated in Unreal Engine produces auto-labelled training data for a YOLO detector that still finds a tank through electronic-warfare interference.

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Applied AI · 2025

Drone Fleet Telemetry: from Unreal Simulation to Jira Tickets

A proof of concept where a simulated drone acts as an IoT device and n8n turns its telemetry into prioritised Jira incidents, with no custom backend.

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Games & Production · 2024

AI-Built Production Tools for a AAA VR Game

On Metro Awakening I built asset validation, reporting and tracking tools with AI coding assistants: 95% less manual review time across 13,000+ assets per delivery.

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Games & Production · 2022

Co-Founding a Game Studio: Pixward and Boss Fighters

From a blank page to a working studio: contracting, vendor governance and an asymmetric PC/VR multiplayer game taken from concept into live support.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2021

Multiplayer Chemistry Lab: Proving Network Sync First

An MVP scoped around the riskiest assumption: keeping complex chemical states identical for every player in real time.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2021

VR Sniper Training with a Modular Weapon Attachment

Digitise the real service rifle with a clip-on sensor instead of buying simulation guns. Validated technically, with a clear boundary found.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2020

The Living Warehouse: a VR Digital Twin Accepted as an Audit

A VR tour of a national pharma warehouse that international regulators accepted in place of a physical inspection during the pandemic.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2020

Immersive Product Demo: Spinal Implant Surgery

A VR surgery simulator that lets surgeons test-drive implants at conferences, with a floating microscope view for microsurgery detail.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2020

Connecting VR Training Simulators to an SAP-Backed LMS

Enterprise training results must reach the client’s learning system. A custom backend handled employee authorisation and result delivery behind SAP.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2019

Immersive HSE: Incident Prevention and HazMat Response

A VR drill that makes safety rules physical habits — including a forklift crash you cannot dodge if you skip the checks.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2019

Aviation Protocol MVP: Lithium Battery Fire in the Cabin

A VR crew-training MVP built with safety experts for the counter-intuitive procedure for portable-device fires, formally adopted by the airline client.

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Enterprise Simulation · 2018

Laboratory Fire Response and Electrical Safety

A branching VR simulator that trains the decision — CO₂ on live equipment or cut the power first — with crawl, walk, run learning modes.

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Live & Experiential

Multimedia Show for 3,500+ Attendees

Concept, procurement and technical direction of a frame-accurate multimedia show series across a multi-part convention in Ukraine’s largest premium venue.

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Live & Experiential

Gesture-Controlled Stage for a Banking Conference

A touchless presentation system on a panoramic projection stage, with a failover camera layer so live keynotes never dropped a command.

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Live & Experiential

Crowd-Steering Game: an Audience as One Controller

A computer-vision installation where a whole audience leans left or right together to steer a virtual vehicle through an obstacle course.

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Live & Experiential

Interactive Dance Performance with Depth Cameras

Choreography that draws the stage: depth-camera tracking turns spins, jumps and poses into real-time generative visuals.

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