Nikita Lukyanenko
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNikita Lukyanenko is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building scalable deep learning and NLP systems at PayPal. He led production automation projects— including an unsupervised dialogue extractive summarization system—that cut per-interaction time and contributed to automation savings exceeding $22M annually. Comfortable across the stack, he authors pipelines and deployments in Python, Go, Docker and GPU-backed PyTorch/TensorFlow models, and has scaled solutions to support 10,000+ customer support agents with A/B testing. A patent-holder with multiple filings, Nikita blends research-driven model development (BERT/Longformer/transformers) with pragmatic engineering to move prototypes into robust infrastructure. He also brings hands-on full-stack experience from internships and startups, giving him a strong sense for product integration and real-time systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence Professional Program, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Professional Program, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Los AngelesAssociate of Sciences, Mathematics, Associate of Sciences, Mathematics at West Valley CollegeProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikita1923666/simpleWeb
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
scalableinternetservices/poolfolio
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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