Nikolai Palchikov
Machine Learning Engineer at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Palchikov is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Munich with 12 years of experience focused on natural language processing and knowledge-intensive applications. He builds production-ready ML components—recently at Yandex he boosted intent classification accuracy by 20% through large-scale pretraining and domain adaptation, and cut latency and memory use significantly via quantization and pruning. Now at JetBrains he applies research-first discipline to product problems, having earlier reproduced code-generation papers and contributed full-stack improvements to the official Kotlin website. Comfortable across the ML stack (PyTorch, Hugging Face, ONNX) and production engineering (Postgres, aiohttp, deployment pipelines), he also mentors peers and designs dialogue and assistant platforms. An interesting thread through his career is combining deep research experiments with pragmatic optimizations that make complex models usable in constrained, real-world settings.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at Школа анализа данныхMaster's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at Высшая Школа Экономики
Github Skills (7)
kotlin10
front-end-development10
html9
javascript8
css8
yaml7
nextjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/kotlin-web-site
May 2021 - Jan 2023
The Kotlin programming language website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:262 reviews, 436 commits, 497 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai contributed to the Kotlin web site by making changes to various aspects of the site. Their work included updating the favicon, implementing a promo banner, replacing Unicode symbols, and removing product version information from the search index builder and documentation configurations. They also updated the footer and redesigned the "Why Kotlin" section on the main page.
kotlinprogramming-language
nikpachoo/kotlin-compiler-server
Aug 2021 - May 2023
Server for executing kotlin code
Contributions:34 pushes, 59 branches in 1 year 9 months
kotlinjava
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