Ilia Ustinov
Machine Learning Engineer at Booking.com
Moscow, Moscow, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIlya Ustinov is a Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience building production ML systems across major tech and finance companies, currently working at Booking.com after impactful roles at Yandex and AliExpress Russia. Trained at MIPT in applied mathematics and physics, he combines strong theoretical grounding with hands-on skills in Python, Java, and Kotlin to improve search, recommendation, and ad-ranking models at scale. His work includes measurable ranking and calibration improvements for geo-suggest and ad recommendations, plus end-to-end delivery of MVPs for search and logistics. Outside of engineering, he contributes to open source, draws, and longboards—bringing a creative, maker mindset to data-driven product problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Applied Mathematics and Physics, MS, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
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Github Skills (64)
kotlin10
gbm10
catboost10
kaggle10
python10
multithreading10
groovy10
classification10
r10
data-mining10
yandex10
coreml10
java10
gradient-boosting10
luarocks10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
IUdalov/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
yandex/mapkit-ios-demo
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
MapKit iOS demo
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 6 months
iosmapkityandexmapkit-ios-demoswift
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