TL;DR: I build AI stuff, break it, fix it, and teach machines (and sometimes humans) to be slightly less dumb. Currently making LLMs act and behave themselves.
What I Play With
- Languages: Python (my main squeeze), C++, and a long tail of others when needed
- ML Magic: Everything from transformers to making LLMs not say weird things (RAG, RLHF, fine-tuning, the whole shebang)
- Infrastructure: Cloud stuff, Docker/K8s, and whatever it takes to keep models running in production
Where I’ve Been Breaking Things
Currently: Making AI Agents Less Chaotic @ Toloka
Senior ML Engineer (2024 - now)
- Making AI agents actually follow system prompts, at scale (when there are thousands of prompts, I mean)
- Building tools that help humans label data faster (and catch AI trying to sneak synthetic content into training sets)
- Generally making sure AI doesn’t go rogue on production
ML Engineer (2022 - 2024)
- Built content moderation models that work across multiple languages (because bad content is unfortunately multilingual)
- Made ML services that combine AI smarts with human sanity checks
- Helped create an auto-ML platform - because who has time to train models manually now?
Previously: Teaching Humans (and sometimes machines) @ RUDN University
Various Roles (2014 - 2021)
- Taught CS students about data analysis and how computers think (spoiler: they don’t; I’m talking about the computers; however…)
- Published research papers about NLP and ML in biomedicine
- Created an online course that somehow attracted 5,000+ students
- Won “Favorite TA” - probably because I explained recursion using memes
Also Did:
- Software Engineering at a no-name science center (2012-2013)
- Testing & Breaking Software at Performance Lab (2011-2012)
- Made testing 12x faster by writing better SQL queries (from 3 days to 6 hours!)
Education
- MSc in Fundamental Informatics (fancy name for “I know computers”)
- BSc in Applied Math & CS
Published Some Stuff
Written several papers about ML in medicine, text classification, and making computers predict biological stuff. You can find them on ResearchGate if you’re into that kind of bedtime reading.
Random Achievements
- 🔥 1000+ day LeetCode streak (yes, I solve C++ problems for fun)
- 🎯 Completed Google FooBar challenge (got interviewed, didn’t get the job - timing wasn’t right)
- 🔬 Did actual biolab research with real mice and everything
The full, boring, and detailed version is available upon request. Drop me a message on LinkedIn or via email!