Pavel Severilov
Team Lead ML Engineer at Tinkoff
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Severilov is a Team Lead NLP Data Scientist with nine years of experience building production-grade NLP and speech AI systems, currently leading a team of five at Samokat.tech and shipping 14+ models across 8+ projects. He combines deep learning research (PhD-level work from MIPT) with hands-on engineering using Python, PyTorch, FastAPI, transformers, LLMs, RAG, ASR and vector search (Faiss, Qdrant). Pavel has driven end-to-end solutions for chatbots, speech assistants and document processing in both product and client-facing roles, and has a track record of converting research into MVPs and stable production services. He also teaches an "Audio in Deep Learning" course at MIPT/AI Masters, highlighting his ability to distill complex signal and language modeling concepts for practitioners. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged R&D and business needs—managing ML pipelines for clients with significant ARR while supervising model deployment and lifecycle.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (11)
audio8
intelligent8
ai5
deep-learning5
sketchup5
azerothcore4
statistics4
world-of-warcraft4
python3
trinitycore3
rating3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
severilov/GenPhys-labs_3-4-5sem
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
severilov/DL-Audio-Course
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Deep Learning Audio Course, 2024
Contributions:16 commits, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
audiodeep-learning
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