Aliaksei Mikhailiuk
ML Engineering Manager at Wayve
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAliaksei Mikhailiuk is an ML engineering manager and hands-on leader with nine years of experience building and scaling generative AI and on-device ML products from research to production. He has driven high-impact GenAI features at Snap—helping ship an LLM-based chatbot with 150M+ MAU and measurable engagement uplifts—and led teams delivering on-device face and video models and rendering optimizations. Comfortable oscillating between technical ownership and product strategy, he has a track record of mentoring engineers, securing funding for research-driven projects, and aligning cross-functional stakeholders including AI safety and finance. Trained to PhD level at the University of Cambridge, Aliaksei blends rigorous academic research with pragmatic engineering execution and a penchant for porting research prototypes into robust production systems. Now based in London, he’s focused on post-training ML engineering at Wayve, continuing to specialize in multimodal and privacy-sensitive on-device AI. An understated strength is his experience supervising and developing junior researchers into publishable contributors, showing his commitment to building long-term team capability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation Year, Engineering and Computer Science, Foundation Year, Engineering and Computer Science at Lancaster UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of CambridgeMathematics, Mathematics at BSU LyceumBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science and Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science and Electronics at University of Bristol
Russian, English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (25)
sampling10
pairwise10
autoencoder9
denoising9
discriminator9
medium9
creative-commons7
svd6
recall6
scaling6
inkscape5
rating5
plugin5
machine-learning5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikhailiuk/mikhailiuk.github.io
May 2021 - Nov 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:143 pushes in 4 years 7 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
mikhailiuk/medium
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
This is a repository for code accompanying articles published on medium
Contributions:23 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years 9 months
publishedcreative-commonsmediummachine-learning
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