I am a professional ai engineer with over 6 years of experience in building ai services with deep learning models, LLM, RAG, fine tuning models

Ivan Suchkov

I am a professional ai engineer with over 6 years of experience in building ai services with deep learning models, LLM, RAG, fine tuning models

Available to hire

I am a professional ai engineer with over 6 years of experience in building ai services with deep learning models, LLM, RAG, fine tuning models

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Advanced

Work Experience

LLM Tech Lead at Raiffeisenbank
July 1, 2023 - November 12, 2025
Lead architect for AI agents infrastructure; designed and deployed end-to-end stack including Milvus vector search, Langfuse observability, and a secure Kubernetes code-execution sandbox. Implemented PEFT methods (LoRA, QLoRA) for fine-tuning VLLM; built RAG-based search ranking increasing relevance by 30%. Developed chatbots for support staff covering 15% of requests. Created transcription, diarization and summarization service for support calls with ASR/LLM; analyzed topics, intents and emotions to reduce Mean Handling Time by 20% and improve First Call Resolution by 15%. Deployed microservices in Kubernetes for high availability and scalability.
ML Engineer at OZON.ru
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023
Worked in the matching team; developed and optimized product matching pipelines; trained and deployed transformer-based text models for search and ranking; applied dimensionality reduction to improve efficiency. Built and deployed classification models for deduplication. Created Python+gRPC microservices for real-time matching; implemented metric monitoring in Grafana. Led multiple A/B tests and explored automatic retraining of classification models.
Data Scientist at Sberbank
March 1, 2021 - March 1, 2021
Participated in AutoNER framework for recognizing named entities; implemented PyTorch model using navec embeddings and LSTM; resumed Elmo support. Automated launch of release tests in Jenkins and automatic generation/updating of framework documentation.

Education

Master of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Higher School of Economics, Moscow
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2023
Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Higher School of Economics, Moscow
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

Kaggle Competitions Expert
January 11, 2030 - November 12, 2025
Yandex School of Data Analysis - Specialization in Data Science
January 11, 2030 - November 12, 2025

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Retail, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services