Emilia Apostolova
SVP Of Platform Architecture - Peruse
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEmilia Apostolova is a seasoned AI/ML leader and startup founder with over two decades of experience applying NLP and document-understanding systems across healthcare, logistics, and legal domains. As Co-Founder of Peruse and SVP of Platform Architecture at OTR Solutions, she has scaled production-grade platforms to process millions of document pages per month using custom LLMs, multimodal models, and proven ML engineering practices. Her career blends academic rigor—PhD-level NLP research and adjunct faculty roles at Northwestern and DePaul—with hands-on engineering at NIH, Anthem, and enterprise software teams. She holds patents and publications and is known for translating deep research into tight-SLA, customer-facing solutions that balance innovation with operational reliability. An uncommon strength is her ability to lead both the technical architecture and the business scaling of domain-specific AI products, turning complex regulatory and data challenges into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science / Natural Language Processing, PhD Computer Science / Natural Language Processing at DePaul UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Loyola University ChicagoBA/MA Linguistics/English Literature, BA/MA Linguistics/English Literature at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
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Github Skills (24)
python9
keras9
text-extraction6
flasgger6
flask6
pdfminer6
amazon-s36
six6
nltk6
swagger6
amazon-web-services6
tokenize6
extraction5
pdf-files4
parser4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ema-/patient-context-vectors
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
perusetechnology/frontend-assessment
Aug 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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