depressed intokyo
@depressedintokyo
AI Engineer who ships production LLM/RAG systems end-to-end, with orchestration across text, vision, and audio.
What I'm looking for
I ship AI systems end-to-end in production: corporate multi-LLM applications, RAG services, ASR post-processing, model evaluation frameworks, and Gen AI enablement programs at the department level.
At Yandex, I embedded generative AI into product and internal workflows, taking prototypes to daily production use by company employees. I designed and shipped a corporate application with multi-LLM orchestration, using a TypeScript UI with a FastAPI backend and a multi-provider model aggregator.
I also scaled content automation with a RAG service, moving from FAISS to Qdrant with sentence-transformers, and turned evaluation into a data-driven product via an automated AI-model testing framework (chat, image, TTS, transcription, embeddings) with reporting across runs and benchmarks.
Beyond engineering, I ran an internal Gen AI enablement program and mentored designers through Practicum—covering the full generative-AI stack (LLM prompt engineering, agents, ComfyUI-style node graphs, ControlNet, STT/TTS) and lowering the barrier for non-engineering teams.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Expert / Mentor
Yandex Practicum
Nov 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 5 months)
Mentored designers through practical generative-AI training, covering prompt engineering, chat assistants and agents, image/video generation, and STT/TTS (including voice cloning). Taught end-to-end production orchestration using node-graph workflows and API aggregators.
AI Engineer
Yandex
Sep 2023 - Apr 2026 (2 years 7 months)
Embedded generative AI into product and internal workflows, shipping a multi-LLM corporate app and RAG content automation from prototype to daily employee use. Built an AI model testing framework, an ASR meeting summarization pipeline with fact-loss benchmarks, and an editorial content generation pipeline with proofreading and markdown rendering.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Imifi
Bachelor's, Mathematics & Computer Science
2023 -
Bachelor's program in Mathematics & Computer Science at Imifi starting in 2023.
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
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Skills
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