Valentina Ermolova is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building data pipelines, backend features, and production-grade ML infrastructure across startups and large platforms. She has hands-on experience migrating large Python codebases (2.7→3.9), configuring custom AWS EC2 data mining farms, and integrating early OpenAI APIs (including a ChatGPT TTS Telegram bot). Her background spans data warehousing, MLOps, ETL and observability—having delivered DWH-ready analytics at OZON and automated monitoring and ETL tooling at Badoo. Currently she researches self-hosted LLMs like LLaMa and LLaVa and mentors junior data engineers, combining curiosity about deep-space exploration with practical infrastructure know-how. Based in Antarctica, she’s open to relocating for roles that let her apply scalable engineering to novel, impactful problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at The Open University
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