Nikita Ovchinnikov
Lead NLP AI at Udemy
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Ovchinnikov is a Lead NLP/AI engineer with 11+ years of experience building production-grade ML systems, currently driving AI-powered document processing and intelligent form filling at pdf.net. He has deep expertise in NLP, TTS, and LLM-driven RAG systems—having led TTS R&D at Peech and open-sourced a well-documented TTS framework with live demos. Nikita combines hands-on model development (LoRA, DPO, vLLM optimizations, KV-cache) with product-minded engineering, shipping features like infinite-conversation Chat-PDF and document summarization. His background spans full-stack architecture, search bots integrating XLNet/BERT, and large-scale front-end platforms, reflecting a rare cross-disciplinary fluency. A seasoned instructor and mentor, he creates practical courses on neural networks, React, and SQL, helping bridge research and applied engineering. Based in Warsaw, he’s a Gil Strang fan who blends computational rigor with pragmatic MLOps to accelerate real-world AI applications.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Volgograd State UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyKhan Academy
German, Русский, English, Polish
Github Skills (109)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
javascript10
editor10
html10
js10
jupyter-extension10
angular10
minesweeper10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vue10
svelte10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nickovchinnikov/Computational-Science-and-Engineering
Jan 2021 - May 2021
18.085 Gilbert Strang Computational Science and Engineering
Contributions:73 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
computational-science
nickovchinnikov/react-js-tutorial
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:63 reviews, 369 commits, 141 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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