Anton Dereventsov
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAnton Dereventsov is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD in Applied Mathematics and eight years of experience building distributed, production-grade ML systems that span reinforcement learning, personalization, and large-scale pipelines. He has driven models and agents that reached hundreds of millions of users and powered personalization for over 150k businesses, and recently has been applying LLMs and embedding spaces to advance recommendation and personalization. Comfortable moving ideas from research to production, he blends deep theoretical training with hands-on engineering at organizations from national labs to startups and major platforms. Based in Boston, he combines academic rigor with product impact—often focusing on scalable infrastructure and efficient model orchestration that are easy to overlook but crucial for real-world deployment.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Mathematics at University of South CarolinaLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (12)
greedy9
convex5
deep-learning4
optimization-methods4
convex-optimization3
optimization3
greedy-algorithms2
gradient-descent2
interaction1
policies1
bandit1
sparse1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joedaws/ASGF
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
sukiboo/wbga_co
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Source code for the numerical experiments presented in the paper "Biorthogonal Greedy Algorithms in Convex Optimization".
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
gradient-descentoptimization-methodsconvex-optimizationoptimizationconvex
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