Nikolay Zinov
Co-Head Of Applied Research at Poolside
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolNikolay Zinov is a seasoned applied research leader with 8+ years building and productionizing large-scale LLMs and dialog systems, currently Co-Head of Applied Research at Poolside where he oversees a 40+ person organization delivering enterprise-grade on-prem LLMs and coding agents. He previously led development of YaLM models and the Alice voice assistant’s end-to-end dialog module at Yandex, shipping transformer models from scratch and sustaining high-throughput production traffic. His hands-on background spans pretraining, large-scale RL, post-training evaluation, data curation and alignment for models up to 100B parameters, with a pragmatic focus on turning research into reliable product capabilities. Trained at MIPT in Math and Computer Science, he pairs academic rigor with startup and industry-scale execution and a practical expertise in prompt engineering and AI assistant development.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Github contributions (5)
kirpix524/java_study_graphics
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
kirpix524/java_code_samples
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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