Solutions engineering · Applied AI

Complex systems, made clear.

I design and ship reliable AI and data solutions — from the first architecture sketch to production — and help teams move through the hard parts with confidence.

10+ years across data, research and engineering
5+ years building machine learning systems
15+ data science cohorts mentored
01 Profile

Engineering judgment with a product mindset.

My background connects machine learning, data engineering, research and client-facing solution design. I started with R, classical ML and environmental data in 2015; Python followed in 2018 and became a committed relationship. Today I focus on turning technical ambiguity into systems, workflows and decisions people can trust.

01 / ARCHITECTURE

Solutions engineering

Shape practical architectures, align stakeholders and turn an open-ended problem into a delivery path.

02 / INTELLIGENCE

Applied machine learning

Design ML, LLM, RAG and evaluation systems that survive the jump from proof of concept to production.

03 / SYSTEMS

Data products

Build pipelines, analytical layers and internal tools that make complex data useful and observable.

04 / PEOPLE

Technical leadership

Guide engineers, mentor specialists and keep technical work connected to the outcome that matters.

02 Stack

A broad stack, used selectively.

Tools are choices, not identity. These are the technologies I reach for when they are the clearest way to build, understand or operate a system.

Foundation

PythonUnixSSHGitDockerSQL

ML & AI

PyTorchScikit-learnCatBoostLightGBMXGBoostHugging FaceStatsmodelsLLM evaluation

Data systems

PandasPolarsPySparkAirflowKafkaPub/SubDatabricksClickHouseGrafanaTemporal

Cloud & storage

GCPAWSAzureBigQueryPostgreSQLRedis
03 Experience

From field research to agentic systems.

A career built across disciplines: environmental science, analytics, education technology, ML products and solutions engineering.

2024 — NOW

Solutions Engineering Team Lead & Solutions Engineer

Toloka ↗
Belgrade, Serbia

Shaping solution architecture and guiding the Solutions Engineering team while advancing agentic systems, LLM evaluation and expert-data workflows at scale.

  • Championing the integration and adoption of internal tools across the department.
  • Built pipelines for agent systems, SFT, RLHF and evaluation.
  • Implemented data strategies and expert-annotation workflows across industries.
Team Lead since May 2025 · Solutions Engineer since June 2024
2023 — 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

Kidskey ↗
Cyprus

Led internal data-product development for an online school and designed ML systems from proof of concept to production.

  • Engineered and deployed a retrieval-augmented support system.
  • Improved contact-center dialogue analytics and agent evaluation.
  • Designed a multimodal recommendation system across video, audio and text.
  • Used cloud functions, storage, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, Beam and BigQuery to operate the platform.
2023 — 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

IamFuture
Zug, Switzerland

Led a data team and designed ML systems from PoC to MVP, working across crypto time series, NLP and machine-learning backend services.

2021 — 2023

Data Scientist & Mentor

Elbrus Coding Bootcamp
Remote

Improved internal analytics for A/B testing and marketing, developed an AI project as a Skolkovo Innovation Center participant and mentored more than 15 Data Science cohorts.

2016 — 2020

Engineer & Data Analyst

Gazprom Seaprojects, Lomonosov MSU Marine Research Center and Ecosky. Automated pipelines, analyzed remote-sensing data and led environmental engineering projects.

2015 — 2016

Lead Environmental Consultant

Ecosky. Led monitoring projects, developed analytical reports for multinational energy companies and provided GIS support.

2014 — 2015

Junior Research Scientist

V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute. Applied classical ML and remote sensing to digital soil mapping and field research.

2012

Environmental Technician

Lomonosov Moscow State University. Conducted fieldwork on industrial impact within conservation landscapes.

04 Education

Science first. Engineering ever since.

2009 — 2014

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Specialist in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Faculty of Geography · Landscape Geochemistry and Soil Geography

2021

Data Science

National University of Science and Technology MISIS

Refresher training in machine learning and data analysis

Contact

Have a complex problem worth simplifying?

I'm always interested in thoughtful conversations about AI systems, data products, solution architecture and the teams that build them.