Alexis Pokotylo
Freelance Machine Learning Engineer
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexis Pokotylo is a freelance Machine Learning Engineer and PhD-trained statistician with 13 years of software experience and a decade-plus track record of delivering data-driven, cloud-native AI systems. He blends deep academic expertise—authoring widely used R packages and accelerating algorithms during his doctoral work—with hands-on industry impact at Accenture and PwC, where he built scalable Spark pipelines, ML workflows, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation tools. Certified in Azure Data and AI engineering and Spark development, he focuses on MLOps, NLP, and productionizing generative AI while maintaining strong quality and requirement-driven design. Known for mentoring peers and translating stakeholder needs into robust architectures, he has repeatedly improved performance (up to 20x in some Big Data tasks) and pioneered annotation-learning extraction tools that reduce manual effort from the first document. Based in Düsseldorf, he combines research-grade rigor with practical engineering to help organizations leverage RAG and cloud AI in auditable, scalable ways.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at University of CologneVisiting scholar, Classification, Visiting scholar, Classification at Hochschule MerseburgIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, German, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (26)
chatgpt10
python10
langchain10
open-source10
typescript10
llm10
openai10
ai10
generative-ai10
gemini10
pydantic10
anthropic10
async7
http-server7
aiohttp7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cran/ddalpha
Feb 2013 - Mar 2022
Contributions:25 commits in 9 years 2 months
pokotylo/langchain
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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