Leonid Bakaleynik
AI Team Lead at SparkBeyond
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Bakaleynik is an AI Team Lead based in Israel with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and shipping advanced AI features at SparkBeyond. He progressed from software engineer to AI lead by designing core backend infrastructure, creating SDKs, and spearheading data ingestion and ML initiatives before driving LLM integration and platform-wide architecture. Leonid has deep distributed-systems pedigree from earlier roles—contributing a PersistentFSM actor to Akka and designing cluster-sharding solutions for real-time messaging—which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and observability. He’s hands-on with Python, R and cloud tooling, has led internal RAG and hyperparameter-tuning projects, and emphasizes performance, monitoring, and best practices when moving models into production. An engineer who blends low-level systems rigor with modern AI deployment, he often surfaces non-obvious trade-offs between model capabilities and platform operational cost.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Israel Jobs
Github Skills (19)
actor-framework10
concurrent10
jvm10
reactive10
distributed-systems10
akka10
java10
akka-streams10
message-driven10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
r-package6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leonidb/akka
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Akka Project
Contributions:50 pushes, 7 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 4 months
scalaakka
leonidb/jenkins-workshop
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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