Ivan Provilkov
Research Engineer at Together AI
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Provilkov is a research engineer and product-minded leader with nine years of experience building and scaling ML-driven consumer products and research systems. He has led teams from 0 to 20 engineers, shipping AI character-driven apps that reached top-10 positions on the US Google Play Store and grew MRR into five figures through rigorous A/B testing and rapid hypothesis cycles. His background blends academic research—two first-author ACL/EMNLP papers and contributions used by major labs—with hands-on production work fine-tuning and serving models up to 13B parameters. At Yandex he advanced uncertainty estimation and novel decoding techniques; more recently he focuses on preference tuning, RL-based evaluations, and fine-tuning platforms at Together AI. Ivan pairs deep technical expertise in NLP and transformers with product metrics obsession (notably large jumps in messages/user and retention), and a history of turning research insights into measurable user and business impact.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Specialized in Machine Learning Scientific Research, 4.9/5, Diploma with honors, Master's degree, Computer Science, Specialized in Machine Learning Scientific Research, 4.9/5, Diploma with honors at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Was part of my Bachelor and Master studies, Widely-known program in Advanced Data Science, GPA 5/5, Was part of my Bachelor and Master studies, Widely-known program in Advanced Data Science, GPA 5/5 at Yandex School of Data Analysis
Github Skills (44)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
svm10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
data-science9
depth-estimation9
language-processing9
word-embeddings9
whisper9
watchos9
nlp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VProv/BPE-Dropout
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
VProv/JUNO
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:61 pushes in 6 months
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