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Hi, I’m Vladlena Smirnova — NLP and AI Agent Engineer focused on designing and deploying conversational systems, voice technologies, and AI-powered assistants. I’ve spent 5+ years improving accuracy, usability, and adoption of ML-driven products across startups and enterprise projects. I’m passionate about bridging research and production and building LLM-powered agents that feel natural, reliable, and scalable. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love turning research into practical, scalable solutions that empower users and businesses.…Hi, I’m Vladlena Smirnova — NLP and AI Agent Engineer focused on designing and deploying conversational systems, voice technologies, and AI-powered assistants. I’ve spent 5+ years improving accuracy, usability, and adoption of ML-driven products across startups and enterprise projects. I’m passionate about bridging research and production and building LLM-powered agents that feel natural, reliable, and scalable. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love turning research into practical, scalable solutions that empower users and businesses.

Vladlena Smirnova

Voiceover Artist, AI Prompt Engineer, AI Developer, +3

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Hi, I’m Vladlena Smirnova — NLP and AI Agent Engineer focused on designing and deploying conversational systems, voice technologies, and AI-powered assistants. I’ve spent 5+ years improving accuracy, usability, and adoption of ML-driven products across startups and enterprise projects. I’m passionate about bridging research and production and building LLM-powered agents that feel natural, reliable, and scalable. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love turning research into practical, scalable solutions that empower users and businesses.…Hi, I’m Vladlena Smirnova — NLP and AI Agent Engineer focused on designing and deploying conversational systems, voice technologies, and AI-powered assistants. I’ve spent 5+ years improving accuracy, usability, and adoption of ML-driven products across startups and enterprise projects. I’m passionate about bridging research and production and building LLM-powered agents that feel natural, reliable, and scalable. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love turning research into practical, scalable solutions that empower users and businesses.

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Hi, I’m Vladlena Smirnova — NLP and AI Agent Engineer focused on designing and deploying conversational systems, voice technologies, and AI-powered assistants. I’ve spent 5+ years improving accuracy, usability, and adoption of ML-driven products across startups and enterprise projects.
I’m passionate about bridging research and production and building LLM-powered agents that feel natural, reliable, and scalable. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love turning research into practical, scalable solutions that empower users and businesses.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

French

Intermediate

Spanish; Castilian

Beginner

Russian

Fluent

Work Experience

AI Prompt Developer at KeyBrain AI

March 1, 2025 - Present

Built and optimized AI-powered personal travel agent, integrating RAG pipelines and LLMs to generate real-time personalized itineraries, improving trip-planning efficiency by approximately 40%. Designed, tested, and refined 50+ custom prompt flows to enhance accuracy and reduce hallucinations, achieving a 20% improvement in response quality. Evaluated and integrated emerging AI tools, reducing development cycle time by approximately 30% through faster prototyping.

AI Prompt Writer at Outlier

August 31, 2024 - October 20, 2025

Designed and ranked hundreds of prompts/responses, directly training LLMs that reached over 100M end users. Improved factual consistency of AI responses by approximately 12% through careful evaluation and iteration.

Technical Partner Manager & Conversation Designer at Graphlogic

December 31, 2024 - October 20, 2025

Spearheaded partnerships in LATAM onboarding 10+ ISVs & service providers, contributing to 25% regional revenue growth. Co-designed and deployed enterprise-grade chatbots and voicebots using LLM + ASR/TTS pipelines, improving response accuracy by 15%. Built and tested end-to-end conversation flows for clients across fintech, healthcare, and customer support — reduced customer escalation rates by 18%. Collaborated with product team to prioritize features and prototype 2 new NLU modules that improved intent recognition speed by approximately 22%.

NLP Junior Engineer at OKAS (AI Solutions)

November 30, 2022 - October 20, 2025

Developed and fine-tuned ASR & speech synthesis models, cutting error rate by 15%. Preprocessed and managed millions of text/audio data points, building robust pipelines that reduced data cleaning time by 30%. Conducted evaluation experiments that improved latency by 20% in production-ready speech systems.