Alexander Abugaliev
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Контур
Phuket Province, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Abugaliev is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production AI systems, currently leading a cross-functional squad at Контур to deliver an enterprise self-service RAG platform. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python, PyTorch, TorchScript, Docker and occasional C, with a focus on NLP and ASR and practical familiarity with CV. His background spans ASR pipeline optimization, NER, spelling correction, summarization and vector search engineering, pairing research instincts with production-grade delivery. Alexander bridges ML R&D and backend engineering across hybrid Python/C# stacks, hiring and mentoring engineers while contributing to core code and architecture decisions. Based in Phuket, he combines academic foundations in computer science and applied mathematics with real-world experience shipping voice and language products at companies like Replika and Контур. An engineer who prefers solving performance and integration challenges, he often surfaces non-obvious trade-offs between model choice and operational cost when designing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering at Innopolis UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Applied mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied mathematics at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian, English
Github Skills (78)
transformers10
speech-processing10
speech-enhancement10
huggingface10
speech10
audio10
audio-processing10
speech-synthesis10
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
speaker-verification10
voice-recognition10
asr10
nlp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Squire-tomsk/convasr
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
Baseline convolutional ASR system in PyTorch
Contributions:48 pushes, 13 branches, 3 tags in 3 months
pytorchconvolutionalasr
Squire-tomsk/fairseq
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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