Kirill Orlov
AI LLM Machine Learning Engineer at Mercari, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolKirill Orlov is an AI/LLM machine learning engineer with nine years of experience building production ML systems that measurably improve business KPIs. Based in Tokyo and currently at Mercari, he has driven large-scope work including real-time recommendation engines, content moderation with human-feedback loops, and product ranking services that cut costs and boosted relevance metrics. Comfortable across the stack, he implements models, REST APIs, Dockerized deployments, CI/CD, and monitoring—turning notebook-driven experiments into maintainable real-time services on AWS. His projects have delivered concrete outcomes (e.g., 90% recommender cost reduction, 37% relevance lift, and tens of thousands of attributable orders), and he brings a pragmatic mix of data science, software engineering, and product-minded experimentation. An MBA-holder who began in analytics and BI, he blends business insight with hands-on ML engineering to focus work on impact and operability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Business & Marketing, Advanced Diploma, Business & Marketing at Kent Institute AustraliaBachelor of Arts (Hons), Business and Management, Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Business and Management at Northumbria UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Webster University
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Github Skills (77)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IDDT/rnn-examples
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Various sequence modelling examples using PyTorch.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 92 pushes in 1 year 11 months
pytorchsequencedeep-learningrecurrent-neural-networksmachine-learning
IDDT/thai-tokenizer
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Fast and accurate Thai tokenization library.
Contributions:8 releases, 7 reviews, 49 commits in 1 year 6 months
tokenizationthaiguidtokenizeraccurate
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