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Basics
| Name | Aleksandr Kim |
| Label | Staff AI Engineer |
| aleksandr.v.kim@gmail.com | |
| linkedin.com/in/aleksandrkim/ | |
| Url | alexkimds.github.io |
| Summary | Staff-level AI engineer with 9 years of experience applying AI/ML to improve operational, product, and business metrics across fintech, retail, and enterprise environments. Built production AI systems and automation platforms that support decision-making, reduce manual effort, and scale business operations across international organisations. Strong background in hands-on technical execution, cross-functional leadership, and innovative AI/ML solutions, including 15+ patented systems and methods. |
Work
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2024.09 - Present London, UK
Senior AI Engineer
Intuit Inc. (Global Financial Software Company)
- Architected a production LLM-based agentic insights system for real-time executive reporting, using structured chain-of-thought outputs and saving 30+ hrs/week at leadership level
- Implemented in-product recommendation systems for EMEA, delivering uplift in service adoption (+8pp) and cross-sell improvement (+12pp LTV impact)
- Designed a cost-efficient ML-based evaluation framework for LLM outputs, reducing inference spend by 33% vs. LLM-as-a-judge baselines while improving reliability
- Inventor on 15+ patents in machine learning and applied AI
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2022.07 - 2024.08 Tel Aviv, Israel
Senior AI Engineer
Intuit Inc. (Global Financial Software Company)
- Optimized large-scale ML-driven data aggregation systems, reducing customer-facing data errors by 40%
- Founded and led a 70+ member Data Science Guild, standardising ML best practices and experimentation frameworks across the organization
- Redesigned experimentation methodology for non-IID and non-normal data, increasing reliability of complex AB test results across product teams
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2021.10 - 2022.06 Moscow, Russia
Data Science Team Lead (2 Teams)
X5 Retail Group (Top Russian Retailer, about 20k stores)
- Led development and production deployment of a promo optimization system forecasting 100K+ time series daily, supporting revenue decision-making across the whole retail network
- Hired and built my own team while also supporting the hiring of DS, DE and DQ specialists for other teams
- Organized data quality monitoring for Hive data bases
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2019.03 - 2021.09 Moscow, Russia
Data Scientist
Kaspersky (International Cyber Security company)
- Developed and deployed BERT-based model for customers support automation (20% reduce of support costs)
- Analyzed user's behavior data, generated hypotheses and conducted AB tests to verify them (customers' Retention Rate increase)
- Developed and deployed language identification model for customer's support (SLA increase + automation)
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2018.06 - 2019.03 Moscow, Russia
Data Scientist
Raiffeisen Bank (Austrian Bank)
- Improved local compliance scoring system (significant revenue growth)
- Developed model for customer identification (employees' workload optimization)
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2017.04 - 2018.04 Moscow, Russia
Data Analyst
Digital Diesel Ltd. (Diesel Engine Products and Services)
- Analyzed supplier market data and built forecasting models to improve pricing decisions
Education
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2016.09 - 2018.06 Moscow, Russia
Master's Degree
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Leading Russian University in STEM)
Applied Mathematics and Physics
Thesis: Distributed Support Vector Machines with Privileged Information
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2012.09 - 2016.06 Moscow, Russia
Bachelor's Degree
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Leading Russian University in STEM)
Applied Mathematics and Physics
Thesis: Research of Quadratic Mappings. Building a Border of Image Set of Non Convex Functions
Skills
| AI & ML | |
| LLMs & Agents | |
| NLP | |
| Uplift modeling | |
| Ranking & Matching | |
| TS Forecasting |
| Tools | |
| Python | |
| Scikit-learn | |
| Langfuse | |
| PyTorch | |
| Transformers | |
| Pandas | |
| Numpy |
| ML Engineering | |
| Airflow | |
| MLflow | |
| Docker | |
| Kubernetes | |
| Code & Data versioning (Git, DVC) | |
| CI/CD | |
| Flask | |
| FastAPI |
| Data | |
| PySpark | |
| Hadoop | |
| SQL | |
| Parsing (Scrapy, Selenium, Beautiful Soup) |
| Soft Skills | |
| People & Project Management | |
| Negotiation & Presentation skills | |
| Cross-functional Collaboration | |
| Mentoring |
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Russian | |
| Native |
| Hebrew | |
| Basic |
| German | |
| Basic |
Projects
- 2023
RAG project with a Telegram Bot UI
Built an end-to-end retrieval-augmented generation system with a Telegram Bot UI.
- LLM, RAG, Docker, MLFlow, Postgres, DVC etc.
- 2018 - 2019
Freelance project for an energy supplying company
Built an overdue payments prediction model.
- XGBoost, EDA, tabular data, consulting, delivery
- 2018
Hackathon ”Human Capital Convention”
Best market fit award for employee - job description matching model.
- Hackathon, Matching, NLP
Interests
| Cooking |
| Freediving |
| Travelling |
| Hiking |