Vitalii Zhukov
Senior AI Engineer at BloomBoard
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVitalii Zhukov is a Senior AI Engineer based in Houston with over a decade of experience building production-grade LLM systems and scalable AI infrastructure. He merges academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on product delivery at BloomBoard, where he progressed from software engineer to senior AI engineer. His background spans research in computational physiology and practical engineering roles in automation and project management across Russia and the United States, giving him a rare blend of domain knowledge and operational leadership. Vitalii is skilled at taking research prototypes into robust, deployable services and optimizing data and model pipelines for reliability at scale. He also pursues continuous retraining in databases and software development, reflecting a habit of bridging legacy systems and modern ML stacks. Colleagues describe him as a practical innovator who turns complex algorithms into maintainable, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of HoustonProfessional retraining Software Development, Professional retraining Software Development at ITMO UniversitySpecialist Faculty of Mechanical and Machinery Engineering, Specialist Faculty of Mechanical and Machinery Engineering at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, Russian
Github Skills (12)
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powerlaw4
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python1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vvzhukov/vvzhukov.github.io
Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
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Contributions:391 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 3 months
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vvzhukov/COSC6323_public_files
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:77 commits, 35 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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