Artem Ponomarev is a Senior Data Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with six years of industry experience building production-grade AI and ML infrastructure across cloud and edge devices. He architects hardware-aware ML pipelines and CI/CD for CPU/GPU/NPU deployments, having cut deployment times and improved inference efficiency through automation, quantization, and ONNX packaging. At Microsoft and TetraMem he led initiatives that standardized experiment environments, boosted NPU inference by ~30%, and instituted safety practices like shadow traffic, A/B testing, and rollback playbooks. His background includes deep applied-physics research at NASA—where he developed Monte Carlo radiation models and earned innovation awards—bringing rigorous scientific modeling to ML operations. An AGI evangelist and agentic AI architect, he blends systems-level engineering with experimental rigor to move cutting-edge models from lab to resilient, monitored production.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, 3.6, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, 3.6 at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Physics, 3.7, with distinction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Physics, 3.7, with distinction at Columbia University
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