Kirill Nikolaev
Senior AI Implementation Engineer
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolKirill Nikolaev is a Senior AI Implementation Engineer based in São Paulo with 8 years of experience translating research-grade ML into reliable production systems. He has led high-impact projects across insurance, education, and defense clients—turning technical skepticism into a $1M commitment at Flint by diagnosing a complex integration bug and designing pragmatic experimental frameworks under legal constraints. His work spans NLP, stylometry, fraud detection, and scalable Python/ORM upgrades that improved prediction throughput and enabled multi-tenancy for enterprise sales. Trained in data science with a background in linguistics, he leverages linguistic insight to build interpretable models that keep false positive rates below 1% while boosting recall and detection rates. Kirill is comfortable communicating to both engineers and non-technical leadership, having produced executive-friendly reports that accelerated product decisions. He combines research presentation experience with hands-on deployment and mentoring, making him strong at moving ML proofs-of-concept into production.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Germanic Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Germanic Languages Literatures and Linguistics at Friedrich Schiller University JenaMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (22)
statistics9
taiko8
python8
machine-learning8
data-science7
text-generation7
ios7
data-analysis7
scikit-learn6
natural-language-processing6
playing6
flask5
deep-learning5
mobile-game5
bootstrap5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Pythonimous/Pythonimous
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:125 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
Pythonimous/ficbot
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
An AI-powered Fan Fiction Writing Assistant.
Contributions:102 commits, 22 PRs, 180 pushes in 2 months
ai-poweredpythondeep-learningassistantmachine-learning
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