Igor Ryzhkov
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolIgor Ryzhkov is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building and optimizing ML systems across tech giants and startups. He has shipped production work at Meta while previously driving ML and software engineering efforts at SliceX AI, Amazon, and YouTube, and researched image denoising models during a Microsoft internship. Igor blends strong engineering foundations from early roles at Google and a CS degree with a Master’s in AI from Northwestern, enabling him to move models from research to scalable production. He’s comfortable across the stack—modeling, pipelines, front-end experiments and performance analysis—and has a track record of measuring trade-offs between speed and accuracy. Notably, his background includes hands-on research in brain–computer interface labs and building RPC services for geo-imagery, reflecting a breadth that spans low-level systems to applied ML.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern University
English
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Github Skills (17)
linux6
bash6
zsh5
nlp5
shell5
macos5
pipeline5
machine-learning4
natural-language-processing4
python4
rust4
spacy3
bert3
gpu3
warp3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iryzhkov/nlp-pipeline
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
NLP pipeline build with PyTorch. Includes scrapping, cleaning, and training stages.
Contributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 4 PRs in 2 months
pytorchnlpcleaningpythonpipeline
iryzhkov/Reinforcement-Learning-Stock-Trading
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 9 months
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