Vasily Ershov
Cloud ML Tools Team Lead at Yandex
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolVasily Ershov is a Cloud ML Tools Team Lead at Yandex with 12 years of experience building high-performance ML infrastructure, GPU-accelerated algorithms, and distributed learning systems. He led R&D on GPU tooling and ASR at Yandex and was a core developer of the GPU backend for CatBoost, working extensively with NVIDIA CUDA/C++. With a strong academic foundation—PhD work in computer science and advanced degrees in applied mathematics and data mining—he bridges rigorous research with production-grade engineering. Vasily specializes in boosting algorithms, CUDA optimizations, and MPI-based distributed training, delivering both algorithmic improvements and low-level performance tuning. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex numerical methods into scalable tooling for ML teams. He often combines deep numerical intuition with pragmatic engineering choices, making him effective at squeezing performance from modern GPU clusters.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State UniversityData Mining, Data Mining at Computer Science CenterMaster's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Statistical modeling, 5, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Statistical modeling, 5 at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет
Русский, English
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Github Skills (110)
gbm10
xgboost10
python10
regression10
gpu10
genome-assembly10
computation10
r10
big-data10
gradient10
gradient-boosting10
lightgbm10
high-performance10
scalable10
catboost10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Noxoomo/DBCSC
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 25 days
SPbSU-StatMod-Masters17/NE_MultidimDataAnalysis
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
statisticsdata-analysissemester
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