Dave Savostyanov
Founding Machine Learning Engineer at Uthana
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Savostyanov is a Founding Machine Learning Engineer with 9 years of experience building end-to-end Generative AI products for games, from research to production. He has repeatedly turned ML prototypes into revenue-driving features—leading teams and startups to ship voice assistants with 1M monthly users, automate post-match analysis processing 100 TB, and cut manual animation work by 95% through text-to-animation tooling. Skilled across model training, multi-GPU production pipelines, Dreambooth/LORA fine-tuning, and ML infrastructure (Airflow, ClearML, ClickHouse), he pairs engineering rigor with product focus. Based in Los Angeles, he also brings founder experience deploying Stable Diffusion at scale and has a knack for automating tedious pipelines (e.g., FBX retargeting and motion annotation) to unlock large efficiency gains.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
English, Russian
Github Skills (20)
data-science9
pandas9
manipulation9
python9
data-analysis9
frame9
data-structures9
dataframes8
data-manipulation8
motion-capture8
optical-flow6
motion-tracking6
loader5
parse5
action-recognition5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arch1baald/woodota
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Extract highlights from professional Dota 2 matches.
Contributions:1 review, 112 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
professionaltilesetmatchesdota-2pack
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