Dani El-ayyass
LLM Team Lead at Alfa-Bank
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolDani El-ayyass is an LLM-focused AI leader with 8 years of experience building and deploying production NLP and ML systems across banking, telecom, and consumer products. Currently LLM Team Lead at Alfa-Bank, he previously led AI transformation and core-product LLM efforts at Social Discovery Group and was a key contributor to GigaChat at SberDevices, steering pretraining, SFT and RLHF work as well as research on reasoning, planning and multi-agent systems. He has a strong track record delivering measurable impact—deploying 15 models to cover departmental processes, improving search and recommendation metrics, and raising model performance via techniques like pseudo-labeling. A lecturer at HSE and MIPT and an open-source contributor, he blends academic rigor (MS from MSU) with hands-on engineering and product leadership. Known for translating research into production, he operates comfortably at the CEO-1 level driving technical strategy and organizational change. Outside corporate roles he maintains an active presence in the Russian AI community and connects informally via tg: @cats_shredinger.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsLomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (131)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
feature-engineering10
deep-learning10
gpu10
examine10
foundation-models10
scientific-computing10
pre-trained-model10
encoder10
shieldsio10
scikit10
statistics10
lstm10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dayyass/project-euler
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
dayyass/graph-based-clustering
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Graph-Based Clustering using connected components and spanning trees.
Contributions:1 release, 106 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
graph-basedconnectedclusteringgraphclustering-algorithm
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