Aleksei Podkidyshev
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksei Podkidyshev is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience delivering production-grade ML systems for advertising, search, and recommendation platforms at Shopify, Microsoft, and Yandex. He combines strong MLOps and software engineering practices to build auction-based ad bidding and ranking systems that bridge paid and organic surfaces and scale to large user bases. His background spans end-to-end model delivery—from research and feature engineering to deployment and monitoring—across both consumer search (Bing.Shopping) and programmatic ad ecosystems (Yandex.Direct). Aleksei’s early work applying large pre-trained models to reduce manual annotation in biomedical text shows a practical knack for applying cutting-edge research to save labor and accelerate teams. Based in the UK and trained at MIPT and Yandex School of Data Analysis, he brings rigorous mathematical foundations plus hands-on product experience in high-throughput, latency-sensitive environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor, Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Master's degree, Data Science & engineering, Master's degree, Data Science & engineering at Yandex School of Data Analysis
English, Russian
Github Skills (33)
amazon7
fuse7
filesystem7
aws-s36
amazon-s36
vfs6
cloud-storage5
aws5
openstack-swift4
python3
telegram3
pytorch3
machine-learning3
monitor2
monitoring2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
KusokMIPT/Algorithms
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
synchronize
alekseyen/MLMIPT
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 28 days
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