Nikita Astrakhantsev
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Dropbox
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNikita Astrakhantsev is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with over a decade of experience leading end-to-end ML projects, from problem definition and measurement design to training, deployment, and long-term model support. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, has authored 15+ papers and patents with 470+ citations, and combines rigorous research instincts with strong software engineering discipline. At Microsoft he shaped measurement and labeling pipelines for Bing Multimedia and led teams building gradient-boosted classifiers and rankers; he now applies that production ML expertise at Dropbox. Known for mentoring junior engineers and translating academic insight into reliable production models, he often bridges the gap between reproducible research and scalable engineering. An underappreciated strength is his deep involvement in measurement strategy and labeling quality control, which consistently improves model reliability beyond algorithmic gains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at ISPRASLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (35)
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text-mining10
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data-analysis10
intellij9
artificial-intelligence9
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natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
astrakhantsev/astrakhantsev.github.io
Oct 2016 - May 2019
Practical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Blog
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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ispras/pu4spark
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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