Anastasiia Iurshina
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (NLP) at Mitratech Alyne
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAnastasiia Iurshina is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP with a decade of experience bridging research and production across legal, fintech, insurtech, and academic settings. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart and has driven applied projects from neural entity linking datasets to deployed RAG systems for legal documents. At companies from Amazon and Bosch AI to GFT and Mitratech Alyne she has built question-answering pipelines, vector DB integrations, and chat apps used by thousands of users while also mentoring junior engineers. Her background blends deep NLP research—large-scale WikiData/Wikipedia dataset creation and bi-encoder work—with pragmatic engineering skills in FastAPI, LLM APIs, and system testing frameworks. Based in Leipzig, Germany, she uniquely moves ideas from prototype to production, often focusing on document-centric retrieval and aspect-based sentiment tasks. Colleagues value her ability to translate complex language research into robust, user-facing ML products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of StuttgartBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, Russian, German, Arabic
Github Skills (67)
python10
semantic-search10
transformer-models10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
fairness-ml10
cython10
squad10
chatgpt10
ai10
transfer-learning10
nlp10
haystack10
text-generation10
sentence-embeddings10
summarization10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iurshina/iurshina.github.io
Feb 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
iurshina/spaCy
Dec 2019 - Sep 2023
💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and Cython
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 55 branches in 3 years 9 months
pythonlanguage-processingnatural-language-processingnlp-machine-learningspacy
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