Dmitry Balobin
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Yandex
Russia
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Top SchoolDmitry Balobin is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in NLP and conversational AI, currently building advanced language systems at Yandex. He has driven LLM integration and productionization across major Russian tech and finance organizations—Sberbank, 2GIS and Raiffeisen—working on RLHF, PPO training, summarization, factuality improvements and CPU/multi-GPU optimization. His background blends applied research (PhD studies at MIPT) with hands-on deployment of LLMs for user-generated content, trading assistants and speech analytics, and he regularly conducts technical interviews. Notably, he has steered projects that match UGC to internal ontologies and improved summarization quality beyond surface fluency, emphasizing factual correctness and simplified language for end users.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Student Computer Science, PhD Student Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Бакалавр Прикладная математика, Бакалавр Прикладная математика at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University) Scala, Scala at Tinkoff FintechProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Dreamastiy/R.scripts.other
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Dreamastiy/iGraphProjects
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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