Timur Ganiev
Research Engineer at Dex (YC W25)
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ganiev is a research engineer and machine learning specialist with nine years of experience building and productionizing NLP and alignment systems across startups and larger organizations. He has led teams and shipped measurable improvements—designing safety classifiers and red-teaming pipelines that dramatically increased rejection rates while reducing false negatives, and optimizing distributed LLM serving to cut tail latency by ~40%. His background spans end-to-end ML work from active learning and toxic-content classification to model compression and adversarial robustness, with notable impact at Replika and Sberbank. Based in Yerevan, he combines research rigor with product-minded engineering, often co-designing instrumentation and frontend/back-end integrations to turn alignment research into A/B-testable features. A pragmatic tinkerer early in his career as a .NET developer, he brings both systems-level optimization skills and applied ML research to bear on real-world conversational AI problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N.Tupolev – KAI
English, Russian, Tatar
Github Skills (86)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
deep-learning10
self-attention10
seaborn10
encoder10
transformer10
nlp10
sentence-embeddings10
natural-language-understanding10
reinforcement-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
language-modeling10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
esceptico/toxic
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
End-to-end toxic Russian comment classification
Contributions:1 release, 43 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 8 months
nlpend-to-endmachine-learningtoxicnatural-language-processing
esceptico/perceiver-io
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Unofficial implementation of Perceiver IO
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
nlppytorchpythonseq2seqdeep-learning
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