Dmitrii Nikitko
Principal AI Engineer at EPAM Systems
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitrii Nikitko is a Principal AI Engineer based in Spain with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering ML and DS solutions from computer vision and NLP to production-grade agentic LLM flows. He leads architecture and delivery for high-impact conversational commerce and RAG/fine-tuning initiatives, driving measurable business outcomes (A/B-tested sales lift) while managing cross-functional engineering and data science teams. Dmitrii has deep edge-to-cloud expertise—optimizing CV models for NVIDIA Jetson devices with custom CUDA kernels and distillation—and has pioneered “LLM-as-a-judge” evaluation frameworks now used across projects. As an EU Data Science Competency Lead he blends technical strategy, talent development, and presales for industries including retail, energy, and automotive. Colleagues know him for translating research-grade methods into robust production pipelines and for establishing rigorous evaluation practices across multi-turn conversational systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at ITMO University
Русский, English
Github Skills (38)
predict10
metric-learning10
image-retrieval10
self-supervised-learning10
perceptual-losses10
extensible10
computer-vision10
contrastive-learning10
retrieval9
generative-adversarial-network9
modular9
pytorch9
stylegan9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Puzer/TWEANN
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Puzer/amazon-sagemaker-notebook-instance-lifecycle-config-theia
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Install the Theia IDE on Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances using a Lifecycle Configuration
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
instancesamazon-sagemaker-notebooksagemakeramazon-sagemakerlifecycle
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