Ihar Nestsiarenia
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at EPAM Systems
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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Top SchoolIhar Nestsiarenia is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11+ years building production-ready NLP, document processing, search, and knowledge-management systems, currently shaping AI strategy and delivery at EPAM in the Baltics. He combines hands-on model development (from statistical NLP to LLMs) with systems design and MLOps, having driven 10x+ throughput and rapid release-time improvements across enterprise projects. Ihar is a pragmatic protoyping expert who routinely validates ideas end-to-end—prototype to scalable deployment—while leading multi-team R&D, hiring, and training initiatives. He pioneered agentic coding on his teams, using AI coding agents as the primary development interface and designing multi-agent reference architectures now powering several deployable agents. Comfortable in compact agile teams, he also coaches evals, guardrails, and LLMOps practices and advises on legacy codebase modernization for enterprise AI adoption. Based in Vilnius, he’s open to consulting and mentoring, blending academic depth (postgraduate studies) with a strong track record of product-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (uncompleted) 05.13.05 Elements and devices of computer technology and control systems, PhD (uncompleted) 05.13.05 Elements and devices of computer technology and control systems at Gomel Technical University P.O. SuhogoMaster's degree Computer Engineering and Design (LIMPTU), Master's degree Computer Engineering and Design (LIMPTU) at ITMO University
Russian, Russian, English
Github Skills (20)
oop10
java8
lombok8
spring-rest8
maven6
spring-mvc6
spring-boot5
rest5
statistics5
spring5
hibernate4
redux2
machine-learning2
data-science2
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nesterione/FunnySnake
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:67 commits, 1 branch in 2 months
nesterione/JavaTrainings
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:177 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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