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Эрнис Бадмаев
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Эрнис Бадмаев

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Senior AI/ML Engineer building reliable LLM/RAG and evaluation systems for document-heavy, expert workflows.

Russian Federation
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a senior Applied AI / LLM-RAG / evaluation / reliability role where I can build traceable systems with release gates, evidence-linked outputs, and safe human review—open to remote or relocation.

I build reliable AI systems for document-heavy and expert workflows, and I care about ownership, traceability, and failure handling. My background combines Python backend development, applied ML, and production LLM/RAG systems, delivered end-to-end—from rules and data sources to APIs, retrieval, agent tools, evaluation, and operations.

In my current role as an AI/ML Engineer and AI Track Lead, I shipped an initial expert assignment pipeline that parses case materials, finds similar sections, ranks candidate experts, and produces audit logs. I also built an agent interface that shows the sources behind each recommendation and prepares drafts for manager approval, plus heterogeneous evidence search over XML, PDF, DOCX, and scans with file/page/fragment linkage. To keep AI from becoming hidden risk, I introduced scenario release gates with agent and document checks, ADRs on boundaries, and observability using Langfuse, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Previously, I developed churn prediction and early detection of troubled projects using CatBoost, and I used SHAP to explain decisions for managers. I also fine-tuned ruBERT for project-risk classification to quickly separate technical, resource, and organizational risks, supporting faster and more consistent owner assignment.

On a contract at Alice Tech (YC W25), I built an AI English tutor for a Telegram Mini App using an agent with memory, dialogue routing, and a voice pipeline (Whisper and ElevenLabs). I strengthened RAG with hybrid retrieval and reranking, and I created personalized exercise recommendations using a Neo4j graph and an event-driven pipeline.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

St. Petersburg State Center of Expertise logoSE
Current

AI/ML Engineer, AI Track Lead

Dec 2025 - Present (8 months)

• Built a pipeline for initial expert assignment: manual case review was inefficient, so I shipped a service that parses case materials, finds similar sections, ranks candidate experts, and writes audit logs. The pilot runs on a process of about 900 cases and 10,000 assignments per year; the comparison base is 45,000 assigned sections; baseline timeliness is 94.8%.

• Built an agent interface for

Full-time logoFU

Software Engineer / ML Engineer

Apr 2023 - Oct 2025 (2 years 6 months)

• Developed an early B2B customer-retention model: customer success saw churn
risk too late, so I shipped a CatBoost model on 80+ behavioral signals that
predicts churn 60 days ahead, with SHAP explaining the reasons to the manager;
in the retention pilot quarterly churn dropped by 15%, precision above 85%,
AUC-ROC 0.91.


• Launched early detection of troubled projects: PMs learned about risks on

Alice Tech (YC W25) logoAW

AI/ML Engineer, contract

Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)

• Built an AI English tutor for a Telegram Mini App (4k MAU): a plain chat could not hold the learner's level and errors, so I built an agent with memory, dialogue routing, and a voice pipeline (Whisper, LLM, ElevenLabs); P95 response
~2.5s. In a team A/B test D7 retention grew from 27% to 35% (up 8 pp), and the average session grew from 18 to 24 minutes.

• Strengthened RAG search over the knowle

AW

AI/ML Engineer

Alice Tech (YC W25)

Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)

Built an AI English tutor for a Telegram Mini App using an agent with memory, dialogue routing, and a voice pipeline (Whisper, LLM, ElevenLabs), improving D7 retention (27% to 35%) and session length (18 to 24 minutes). Strengthened RAG over the knowledge base using hybrid retrieval and reranking, and built personalized recommendations using an event-driven Neo4j graph pipeline.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Инженерно-технический институт(Санкт-Петербург)

2005 - 2010

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