Ildar Salakhiev
Machine Learning Engineer III at Mapbox
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIldar Salakhiev is a Machine Learning Engineer III based in London with 9 years' experience building production-grade NLP and voice assistant systems, and over 5 years focused specifically on advanced NLP, LLM fine-tuning and on-device model pipelines. He has driven product impact end-to-end—from dataset collection and GAN-based augmentation to quantization, evaluation and deployment—at companies including Mapbox and Meta, and led teams to grow chat and voice assistant coverage from zero to meaningful production metrics. Comfortable with both theory (dynamic programming, evolutionary and graph algorithms, clustering) and practice (PyTorch, AWS, SQL, Git, SCRUM), he has shipped and maintained large-scale codebases and open-source wake-word work. A habitual learner and competitor, he stays current via Andrew Ng courses, ArXiv/OpenAI research and frequent participation in Kaggle and hackathons, bringing a researcher’s curiosity to pragmatic engineering. Notably, he built a full on-device LLM pipeline and has experience operationalizing adversarial text GANs for robustness and weak-labeling tasks.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Centrale NantesБакалавр, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Бакалавр, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, French
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Github Skills (72)
text-generation10
generative-adversarial-network10
cpp9
pytorch3d9
nlp8
llm-inference8
python8
3d8
bots8
pytorch8
natural-language-processing8
noise-generator8
deep-learning7
chatgpt7
ai7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
salaxieb/perlin_noise
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Smooth random noise generator
Contributions:7 releases, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 21 days
noise-generator
salaxieb/NLP_AutoML
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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