Summary
Maria Obedkova is a Senior NLP Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience and 5+ years focused on applied NLP and ASR research, specializing in Transformer-based ABSA systems and multilingual solutions. At TrustYou she has moved Transformer ABSA from research into production and now scales and architects ML/DL systems while exploring multilingual approaches. Her background spans ASR pronunciation generation at Sony, morphological and anaphora resolution pipelines for news, and fact extraction work at ABBYY, giving her a rare blend of linguistic rigor and production engineering. She holds strong academic credentials in computational linguistics and language technology from Higher School of Economics and UPV/EHU/Charles University, and she pairs research instincts with hands-on deployment experience. Outside work she writes and illustrates, signaling a creative edge that complements her technical problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Language and Communication Technology, Master's degree, Language and Communication Technology at UPV/EHU
Bachelor's degree, Computational linguistics, 9.3/10, Bachelor's degree, Computational linguistics, 9.3/10 at Higher School of Economics
Master's degree, Language and Communication Technology, Master's degree, Language and Communication Technology at Univerzita Karlova v Praze
English, German, Russian