Experience

ML Researcher — WildBerries, Feb 2024 – Present, Remote

  • Researched diffusion-based data synthesis for diverse training scenarios across lighting, poses, and environments
  • Designed novel metric learning architecture from scratch: 3x training throughput, 47% memory reduction, 2.4% accuracy lift
  • Researched automated visual quality assessment — won internal competition with highest accuracy across all teams
  • Investigated data quality methods that improved downstream search F1 by 6.7% across 7,400 categories
  • Led 15+ cross-team research seminars with 20+ attendees; mentored 5 researchers

Generative AI Researcher — Independent, Jan 2023 – Feb 2024, Remote

  • Researched cascaded conditional generation and face synthesis using ControlNet architectures
  • Designed end-to-end generation pipeline with automated quality assurance and artifact detection
  • Achieved 4.1x inference acceleration through model graph optimization

ML Researcher — TikTok (ByteDance), Mar 2021 – Jan 2023, Beijing

  • Researched CrossViT architecture for visual content understanding — improved accuracy by 3.6%, filtering 1.8M+ items monthly
  • Investigated efficient fine-tuning strategies for multilingual BERT: 2.7x throughput at 93% accuracy
  • Developed 14 classification and detection models for visual content analysis
  • Discovered and resolved critical scoring errors affecting production model suite
  • Led reevaluation of detection metrics; designed validation protocols for research-to-production consistency
  • Co-developed research benchmarking platform with real-time metrics visualization
  • Authored technical documentation; organized 40+ research meetings with 10+ participants

ML Researcher — Momenta, Jun 2020 – Jan 2021, Beijing

  • Researched attention-based detection architectures for traffic sign recognition: +2.1% precision, +3.6% recall
  • Integrated novel detection heads into RetinaNet — raised mAP from 0.906 to 0.937
  • Deployed model on autonomous vehicle fleet as real-time detection node

Software Engineer — Freelance, May 2015 – Jun 2017, Moscow

  • Built real-time network analysis system processing millions of events/sec with SIMD vectorization
  • Scaled aggregation pipeline from 100K to 1M+ events/sec through parallel data structures