Alexander Ryzhkov
Head Of AI Lab R&D Unit at Авито
Russia
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Top SchoolAlexander Ryzhkov is a Head of AI Lab R&D with a track record of building AutoML and applied ML teams across fintech and marketplace environments. A Kaggle Grandmaster and former Head of the AutoML team at Sberbank, he led development of LightAutoML and moved research into large-scale production. His career spans hands-on ML engineering and software roles from Deutsche Bank to Авито, combining rigorous mathematical training from MSU with pragmatic product delivery. Known for turning automated modeling research into deployable pipelines, he focuses on scalable, production-ready AI rather than pure academic work.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Лицей 1537Lomonosov Moscow State University
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (39)
pytorch10
kaggle10
classification10
parameter-tuning10
imputation10
feature-engineering10
gradient-boosting10
regression10
automl10
pipeline10
nlp10
binary-classification10
automated-machine-learning10
multiclass-classification10
whitebox10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sb-ai-lab/SLAMA
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
LightAutoML on Spark
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
scalaspark
sberbank-ai-lab/lightautoml-datafest-workshop
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
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