Alexey Zaytsev
AI ML Engineer (Contract) at Various clients
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolAlexey Zaytsev is an experienced AI/ML engineer and hands-on systems builder with nearly four decades of technical experience spanning kernel and driver development, embedded Linux, electronics, synthetic biology, and generative AI products. He designs and ships end-to-end AI platforms and prototypes—from distributed GPU inference pipelines and custom NSFW detectors to transcription+LLM financial tooling and creative apps like Pelican and Congusto Chat—while also maintaining several useful open-source projects for AI workflows. Comfortable moving between hardware and cloud, he has led hardware teams, overseen Shenzhen manufacturing for production-ready devices, and built scalable generation infrastructures serving tens of thousands of users. His background in systems & synthetic biology and early wet-lab work at Institut Pasteur give him unusual insight into bio+compute problems and data-driven model design. Currently contracting on diverse AI projects, he combines rapid prototyping with production-grade MLOps and a knack for turning unconventional ideas (e.g., noseprint-based dog ID, ASCII/SVG art tooling) into usable products.
39 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Systems and Synthetic Biology, Master of Science (MS), Systems and Synthetic Biology at Université Paris CitéSaint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (200)
language-model10
deep-learning10
literate-programming10
streamlit10
nbdev10
statistics10
editor10
jupyter-extension10
electron10
jupyter10
typescript10
conda10
vscode-extension10
python-modules10
documentation-generator10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
xl0/lovely-jax
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
JAX Arrays for human consumption
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 2 months
jax
xl0/tinygrad
May 2023 - Apr 2026
You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️
Contributions:27 pushes, 12 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 10 months
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