Evgeny Nizhibitsky
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEvgeny Nizhibitsky is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in London with 13 years of experience building production ML systems and leading teams across major tech companies including Waymo, Meta, Alibaba and X5. He blends deep research-rooted expertise in computer vision and NLP with hands-on full-stack development to deploy large-scale services—from GPU-accelerated matching pipelines for 1B+ marketplace offers to vision-driven anti-fraud and self-checkout systems rolled out to tens of thousands of stores. A competitive mind demonstrated by solo and team medals on Kaggle and Topcoder, he also brings academic rigor from MSU and Yandex School of Data Analysis and practical teaching experience mentoring students and colleagues. Currently focused on applying large foundation models to improve simulation realism, Evgeny is as comfortable iterating model architectures as designing data-labeling and orchestration pipelines that make them reliable in production. Notably, he has repeatedly transformed research prototypes into high-throughput services, combining performance optimization with pragmatic deployment strategies.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Yandex School of Data AnalysisLomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (96)
python10
image-segmentation10
portrait10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
segmentation10
portable9
gradient9
openmmlab9
statistics9
computer-vision9
toolbox9
feature-extraction9
benchmark9
xgboost9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nadiinchi/dl_labs
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
nizhib/cannonade
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Your favorite tool for cannonading Web API services
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 9 months
apipythonweb-services-apiapi-servicesweb-api
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