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Borislav Novikov

@borislavnovikov

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Senior LLM & AI Engineer building production voice and agentic NLP systems.

Spain

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What I'm looking for

I want to build real-time conversational and voice AI systems—multi-provider LLM orchestration, multi-agent architectures, and low-latency edge inference—shipping production features that deliver measurable impact across fintech, media, and related domains.

I’m a Senior AI Engineer with 5+ years shipping production systems across the full NLP-to-LLM spectrum—from classical algorithms and in-house NLP platforms to agentic compliance pipelines and now real-time voice agents on edge devices.

I’ve delivered 20+ projects across fintech, proptech, and media for clients including European banks and global media enterprises, with a focus on multi-provider LLM orchestration and multi-agent architectures that work reliably in production.

Recently at Polaro, I engineer production voice assistants that combine local TTS/STT with LLM orchestration for real-time conversational AI, deploying speech and embedding models on edge devices for low-latency inference using Pipecat and LiveKit.

Earlier, I built agentic features and fully automated pipelines—from GPT-4o/o3 investment agent capabilities to a compliance pipeline for adverse media monitoring—and I co-built InTrends, presented at Web Summit 2024.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Conversational Engineer

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Polaro

Jun 2025 - Present (11 months)

Engineered production voice assistants by combining local TTS/STT models with LLM orchestration for real-time conversational AI. Built low-latency edge inference deployments and real-time audio pipelines using Pipecat and LiveKit with a multi-provider LLM backend.

TTS LLM orchestration Edge inference Speech embeddings Pipecat LiveKit Real time audio pipelines Multi provider LLM APIs Stts

LLM Engineer

We Are Volt

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025 (10 months)

Integrated an AI-powered relationship-mapping feature into the platform for a major US investment firm, enabling assessment of connection strength across client and organizational networks. Built and shipped GPT-4o and o3-based portfolio-management agent features for database-driven investment analysis.

LLM Engineering GPT 4o Relationship Mapping Agentic Workflows Portfolio Management Investment Analysis Database Integration Prompting JSON

Python / NLP Developer

PROSW ANALYTICS

Mar 2021 - Aug 2024 (3 years 5 months)

- Replaced costly Google NLP API with a in-house NLP suite — NER, sentiment analysis, risk assessment, parsing, and scraping — eliminating vendor dependency and reducing costs
- Built LLM-driven compliance pipeline with agentic search for adverse media monitoring, serving European banks
- Developed automated relation-network mapping and report generation for compliance workflows using LLMs

Python NLP AI LLM

Python & AI Dev, RoboCup Team

Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"

Jun 2020 - Mar 2021 (9 months)

- Contributed to building a competitive university team for the RoboCup Simulation League.
- Designed and implemented situation assessment and action execution
- Published Scopus-indexed articles and represented the team at international conferences.

C++Multi Agent Systems (MAS)

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI)

Ph.D. Studies (Incomplete), Machine Learning

2022 - 2023

Ph.D. studies (incomplete) in Machine Learning at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI) from 2022 to 2023.

Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI)

Master's degree, Computer Systems Engineering and Informatics

2020 - 2022

Activities and societies: Python & AI Developer for LETI RoboCup Simulation League team (2020–2021); published Scopus-indexed articles and represented the team at international conferences.

Master’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering and Informatics at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI) from 2020 to 2022.