Kirill Blanter
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Fora Capital
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Blanter is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and robust backend software across finance, startups, and research. He currently leads end-to-end ML model development for a ~$1B fund and concurrently consults on RAG assistants and large-scale world-model training that secured early-stage funding. Comfortable across the stack, Kirill pairs PyTorch and Hugging Face workflows with low-level C/Rust networking work—having improved security and performance in the widely used libevent project. His background includes optimized SYCL BLAS implementation work upstreamed into Intel’s oneAPI ecosystem and research roles in HCI and computational algebra. He brings a blend of rigorous academic training (UCL MSc, St Andrews BA) and hands-on distributed training experience (multi-H100 setups), making him effective at turning research ideas into production-grade ML products. Colleagues value his mix of security-minded systems engineering and pragmatic, data-driven model engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of St AndrewsUniversity College London
English, Russian, German, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (17)
ss10
c-language10
ssl10
async10
sslv310
c1110
networking10
c1710
cprogramming-language10
http8
cross-platform7
shell6
iterm6
zsh6
duration6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
libevent/libevent
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Event notification library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 7 PRs, 51 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kirill's contributions focused on enhancing the security and stability of the libevent library. They addressed potential vulnerabilities related to TLS renegotiation by disabling it in certain configurations, especially when using older versions of mbedtls. Furthermore, they fixed build errors, improved DNS functionality, and added caching to the evdns module, improving performance. They also implemented code to allow reuse of existing connections in http implementation.
networkingnotificationevent-notificationcross-platformasync
frndmg/simplex-method
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:107 commits in 1 year 3 months
cppsimplexdata-programmingmethodc-plus-plus
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