Andrii Cherniak
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrii Cherniak is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems for ML, computer vision, and NLP, now contributing to OpenSearch at Amazon. He has led teams and shipped production-grade multi-camera tracking and large-scale data pipelines at Zippin, serving over a million customers, and later architected LLM-driven healthcare demos and alignment pipelines at a generative-AI startup. His hands-on work spans research-grade model training (MAE, Mistral, Pythia), RAG optimization, DPO alignment, and practical tooling for data collection, annotation, and evaluation. Comfortable moving between C++ systems engineering and modern LLM stacks, he combines academic rigor from a PhD program with a track record of turning experimental models into deployed product features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning Specialization, Deep Learning Specialization at CourseraSelf Driving Car (machine learning) Nano Degree Robotics Technology/Technician, Self Driving Car (machine learning) Nano Degree Robotics Technology/Technician at UdacityPhD Information Sciences, PhD Information Sciences at University of PittsburghPitt-CMU cross-registration Computer Science, Pitt-CMU cross-registration Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Applied physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Applied physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukrainian, English, German, Russian
Github Skills (7)
nodes7
waypoint6
traffic5
ros5
robotics5
self-driving-car3
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
d2macster/leetcode-cpp
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
c++ play ground
Contributions:610 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
cppcmakec-plus-pluscpp17ground
d2macster/CodingPractice
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:242 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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