Egor Plotnikov
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Wargaming
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolEgor Plotnikov is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience specializing in NLP, dialogue systems, and generative models. He has a strong track record fine-tuning and optimizing LLMs (from 600M to 13B+), building RAG systems for finance, and deploying production-grade conversational engines using tools like DeepSpeed, FlashAttention, and FasterTransformers. Egor consistently improves model quality for low-resource languages and built GPT-as-judge evaluation pipelines to make model assessments more reliable. He combines research rigor from roles at Sber.AI, ABBYY, and JetBrains with product-focused engineering at startups and enterprise teams. Based in Belgrade, he thrives in cross-functional environments and often speeds up training and inference through custom libraries and practical engineering hacks.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor's degree, informatics and computer technologies, Bachelor's degree, informatics and computer technologies at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (47)
lightning10
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
python10
data-science10
lifecycle10
machine-learning10
scaling10
cost-management10
infrastructure10
deep-learning10
ai10
nlp10
scalable10
bert9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
c00k1ez/plain-transformers
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Transformer models implementation for training from scratch.
Contributions:2 releases, 52 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 7 months
nlppytorchtransformerspythontransformer-models
c00k1ez/NewsLinkPrediction
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 199 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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