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Olga Ivanova

@olgaiv39

Lead Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Data Engineering.

Poland
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can lead end-to-end AI/ML delivery—Computer Vision and LLM systems included—while designing scalable data/agent pipelines in Azure and improving model quality and efficiency with measurable business impact.

I’m a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in Warsaw, Poland. My work centers on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Engineering, with a strong focus on object detection, face recognition, domain adaptation, and LLM implementations.

Since 15.10.2018 as a Freelance Machine Learning Engineer/Solution Architect, I’ve built end-to-end pipelines (e.g., using the insightface library for face recognition and generating 3D head models from a single image). I also delivered production-oriented AI solutions like a deployed AI Search Agent using Azure AI Platform tools (Azure OpenAI, Form Recognizer, Cognitive Search, and Vector Databases), plus dataset-building and model training for tasks such as European traffic signs detection.

I’ve consistently pushed model quality and efficiency—optimizing lightweight neural networks for ARM processors, improving inference speed, and working with RAG quality improvements and custom LLM fine-tuning. I’m also a Kaggle Expert (top rankings) and enjoy aligning technical delivery with client outcomes, including prompt engineering techniques to reduce costs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

FR
Current

Freelance ML Engineer

Freelance

Oct 2018 - Present (7 years 7 months)

Developed end-to-end computer vision solutions including an InsightFace-based face recognition pipeline, a single-image 3D head model pipeline, and a deepfake video database from YouTube. Deployed an Azure AI Platform AI Search Agent (Azure OpenAI, Form Recognizer, Cognitive Search, vector databases) and optimized/maintained tracking, alignment, and dataset pipelines for production use.

SE

AI/ML Engineer

Sensay.io

Jul 2024 - Aug 2024 (1 month)

Improved RAG quality by researching techniques, prepared datasets for custom LLM fine-tuning, and applied prompt engineering to ensure prompts reflect product updates. Supported production readiness through hardware cost evaluation and helped onboard new customers to the platform.

Solvd Inc. logoSI

Lead AI/ML Engineer

Solvd Inc.

Jan 2024 - May 2024 (4 months)

Built an Azure-based recommendation engine and classifier model, and produced client/internal system design documentation and pre-sales technical materials. Fine-tuned and updated Microsoft Phi-3 on custom datasets using Autotrain (Hugging Face) and supported delivery through technical calls, third-party solution testing, interviews, and hiring.

GA

Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Glimpse Analytics

Apr 2023 - Dec 2023 (8 months)

Developed a Docker image to run OpenVINO Core with required dependencies and prepared MOT-format validation datasets for detection and tracking. Trained, converted, optimized, and delivered custom detection/tracking models from customer data and refactored the core codebase.

MA

Computer Vision Engineer

MaritimeAI.Net

May 2019 - Aug 2022 (3 years 3 months)

Implemented a sonar-image generation pipeline using GANs; the synthetic dataset improved object detection quality by 14%. Researched underwater dehazing, trained a multi-class segmentation baseline for ice ground segmentation, explored video super-resolution, and investigated 3D multi-view reconstruction baselines.

SV

Computer Vision Engineer

Suricat Vision

Apr 2020 - Oct 2020 (6 months)

Prepared datasets for GAN training by downloading, parsing, and filtering data, and conducted GAN model research for vision use cases. Delivered reusable data-preparation pipelines to support training iterations.

DE

Computer Vision Engineer

Dowell / Everypixel

Mar 2020 - Jul 2020 (4 months)

Enhanced a face-swap pipeline by researching and improving output resolution and quality. Researched face detection and landmark frameworks and benchmarked their inference time across different servers.

AR

Senior Data Scientist

Arni.io

Feb 2019 - Apr 2019 (2 months)

Trained multiple GAN models for response text generation in Russian and English and optimized inference time, delivering a production model 2.5× faster than the previous one. Built a paragraph-sentence ratio model achieving 80% AUC quality.

Oxagile logoOX

Deep Learning Engineer

Oxagile

Aug 2018 - Sep 2018 (1 month)

Trained GANs to generate synthetic datasets for face identification where standard models struggled due to camera distortion, and trained a face identification model integrated into the existing framework. Trained an object detection model for satellite imagery and improved face identification quality by 25%.

Mapbox logoMA

Data Scientist

Dec 2017 - Jul 2018 (7 months)

Performed GAN-based domain adaptation to improve detection and instance segmentation quality by up to 30% in night and rain conditions. Prepared data for a 200-class classifier, trained instance segmentation models, built internal tools for faster training-data acquisition, and achieved top Kaggle placements (Top14%, Top39%).

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

BU

Belarusian State Economic University

Economist-Analyst, International Relations

2011 - 2016

Grade: 8.0

Studied at the Faculty of International Relations and graduated as an economist-analyst with an average grade of 8.0.

GY

Gymnasium №7

Secondary education (Gymnasium), Secondary education

2000 - 2011

Completed secondary education at Gymnasium №7 in Minsk.

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