Summary
Pavel Severilov is a Team Lead NLP Data Scientist with nine years of experience building production-grade NLP and speech AI systems, currently leading a team of five at Samokat.tech and shipping 14+ models across 8+ projects. He combines deep learning research (PhD-level work from MIPT) with hands-on engineering using Python, PyTorch, FastAPI, transformers, LLMs, RAG, ASR and vector search (Faiss, Qdrant). Pavel has driven end-to-end solutions for chatbots, speech assistants and document processing in both product and client-facing roles, and has a track record of converting research into MVPs and stable production services. He also teaches an "Audio in Deep Learning" course at MIPT/AI Masters, highlighting his ability to distill complex signal and language modeling concepts for practitioners. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged R&D and business needs—managing ML pipelines for clients with significant ARR while supervising model deployment and lifecycle.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English, French