Summary
Uri Smashnov is a Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of focused experience in applying ML and AI to production systems, currently leading RAG validation, LLM fine-tuning, and ML/AI CI/CD automation at T-Mobile. He brings a rare blend of long-term engineering leadership (two decades at Amdocs) and modern AI platform expertise from roles at H2O.ai and Teradata, delivering end-to-end pipelines on cloud platforms like AWS EMR and Spark. Uri pairs technical depth in Python/R and productionization with strategic product sensibility informed by an MBA and an MS in Computer Science from UT Dallas. As an independent consultant he specialized in Data Science, ML and RAG validation, demonstrating an ability to translate bleeding-edge research into audited, reliable systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who focuses on reproducibility and automation to scale models from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas