ML Engineer · UTC+3

Production ML, evals, and side research.

Yandex Direct — ads moderation, antifraud, retraining, release pipelines. Before that Search Neuro — LLM quality checks, SFT data, labeling ops. Side work in quant finance, robotics, and NLP.

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Work

Production ML

Retraining and release

Model update pipelines, validation, monitoring, monthly production releases in ads moderation.

Evaluation

LLM quality checks

Metrics, slices, QC, annotation checks. Most of the work is finding where the model fails and naming it.

Research

Markets, robots, NLP

CEX-DEX execution risk, 3D visual grounding at ITMO Robotics Lab, attention sinks and model uncertainty.

Projects

Background

Stack

ML

PyTorch, Transformers, scikit-learn, XGBoost, evaluation design, SFT pipelines.

Data / infra

Python, SQL, pandas, ClickHouse, Airflow, Docker, monitoring, data quality gates.

Quant / systems

cvxpy, backtesting.py, portfolio optimization, C++17, Linux, Bash.