Andrei Goponenko

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Madrid, Spain

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

PythonMachine LearningNLP / Natural Language ProcessingpandasNumPyscikit-learnPyTorchKerasPySparkAzureAWSDockerGitSQLiteScalaRPostgreSQLHerokuFastAPIAIData AnalysisDeep LearningData ScienceEmbedded SystemsLLMs / Large language modelsLinuxDatabricksDevOps

Languages

Russian (Native)English (Fluent)Spanish

About me

Intro

I am a Machine Learning Engineer with 8+ years of experience in deep learning and classical machine learning. Have contributed to and led software and consulting projects in deep tech, insurance, HR, and the chemical industry. Skilled in applying DS and ML across the entire data life cycle and have expertise in conducting research experiments and implementing research findings in production-ready solutions. I work effectively both independently and in teams, with a strong sense of ownership and commitment. Will be glad to discuss your opportunity, DM me or drop a message at [email protected].

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Work experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Quantistry

Nov 2025 - Jun 2026

8 months

Germany

LLM Agents

QuantumSoft LLC

Dec 2018 - Dec 2025

7 years 1 month

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Machine Learning Engineer @ Clearlaw

Nov 2022 - Dec 2025

3 years 2 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Clearlaw project / AI - based contract-review and management / https://www.clearlaw.ai Achieved: - Developed an algorithmic part of system to help legal teams exchange and analyze documents at fast pace: it included classification models for short and long texts, sequential text classification, NER. - Took part in deployment trained models to microservice infrastructure. - Training language models (GloVe, fastText, ELMo) on domain-specific texts, fine-tuning pretrained models in downstream tasks. - Implemented and deployed brat-based annotation pipeline for text classification task with auto-tagging. - Ad-hoc analysis and EDA for business hypotheses. Technology Stack: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Lightgbm, Catboost, PyTorch, Keras, Spacy, NLTK, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter, PySpark, Transformers, Hugginface, StanfordNLP, AllenNLP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic), Scala, Linux, Git, AWS, Docker, SQLLite, Brat.

Machine Learning Engineer @ Korn Ferry

Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

1 year

Tbilisi, Georgia

Korn Ferry project / Recommendation platform for HR specialists / https://kornferry.com Achieved: - Developed ML and service parts of graph for career transitions which are used in recommendations. - Created service to extract candidate skills from the raw text. Technology Stack: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, spaCy, Jupyter), Azure (Databricks, Pipelines, Devops), PySpark, Git, YAML.

Data Scientist @ Minnow

Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

9 months

St Petersburg, Russia

Minnow project / Aggregator for series and movies from the most popular streaming platforms / https://minnowtv.com Achieved: - Developed matching algorithm for links from streaming platforms and corresponding movies / shows on Minnow's site: brought matching rate 1.7x higher for movies and 2.1x higher for shows. Matching algorithm included more thorough data preprocessing, search by several similarity metrics, fuzzy matching by several fields, validation top-k candidates. - Trained language models (FastText) on domain-specific texts. - Worked on data analysis to enhance overall data quality. Technology Stack: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, FastText, Plotly, Jupyter), PostgreSQL.

Data Scientist @ Anagram

Aug 2020 - May 2021

10 months

St Petersburg, Russia

Anagram project / Insurance billing automation SaaS for doctors and patients / https://www.anagram.care Achieved: - Built predictive models for set of benefits based on prior data about patients: list of benefits and coverage, copay, quantity for each benefit. - Cluster analysis of insurance plans for better understanding of patient segments being verified in Anagram app. - Built churn prediction model and tested the bunch of hypotheses for key components of customer health scoring system. Technology Stack: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn, imbalanced-learn, XGBoost, Lightgbm, Catboost, UMAP, SHAP, LIME, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter), Linux, Git.

Machine Learning Engineer @ Clearlaw

Dec 2018 - Jul 2020

1 year 8 months

St Petersburg, Russia

Clearlaw project / AI - based contract-review and management / https://www.clearlaw.ai Achieved: - Developed an algorithmic part of system to help legal teams exchange and analyze documents at fast pace: it included classification models for short and long texts, sequential text classification, NER. - Took part in deployment trained models to microservice infrastructure. - Training language models (GloVe, fastText, ELMo) on domain-specific texts, fine-tuning pretrained models in downstream tasks. - Implemented and deployed brat-based annotation pipeline for text classification task with auto-tagging. - Ad-hoc analysis and EDA for business hypotheses. Technology Stack: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Lightgbm, Catboost, PyTorch, Keras, Spacy, NLTK, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter), Linux, Git, AWS, Docker, SQLLite, Brat.

Data Scientist

SIBUR

Feb 2017 - Dec 2018

1 year 11 months

Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast, Russia

Worked on projects for several plants in Tomsk, Tobolsk, Kstovo, Voronezh: optimization of technological processes, predictive maintenance. Achieved: - Created ML models in frames of operation efficiency projects on several SIBUR plants. ML models were to forecast quality of products, energy consumption and material fluxes. - Deployment of trained ML models to production for use by plant personnel: gathering requirements, optimization of models output, visualization of dashboards. - Support of the existing solutions: retraining models due to new process conditions, improvement of dashboards, complex rebuilding of solution framework. - IT infrastrucure maintenance and development for data science projects. - Support of users in questions of data mining software. Technology Stack: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Lightgbm, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter), Proficy CSense, Proficy Historian, Advanced Excel (VBA scripts, Pivot, Analysis ToolPak), R (Regression, Visualization).


Education

Hochschule Anhalt

Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2015 - 2016

1 year 1 month

- Embedded systems; - Communications; - Channel coding; - Statistics; - System programming; - Real-time systems.

Tomsk Polytechnic University

Master's degree, Instrument Engineering

2014 - 2016

2 years 1 month

Grade: GPA 4.95

Activities and societies: Elite Engineering Education

- Increased state scholarship for academic achievement in science - summer and winter semesters of 2014/15, 2015/16; - V. Potanin Charity Foundation Sholarship 2014/2015, 2015/16; - Scholarship of the President of Russian Federation 2015/2016; - Yu. D. Maslyukov Scholarship 2015/2016; - V. Potanin Charity Foundation Summer School (Moscow, Russia), 2015: received a financial support for social project "Scientific academia for pupils Scientrium"

Tomsk Polytechnic University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Metrology, standardization and sertification

2010 - 2014

4 years 1 month

Grade: GPA 4.7

Activities and societies: Participation in international conferences both throughout Russia and abroad: MTT – 2013, 2014, YMIT – 2012, 2013, ISSC – 2013, SIBCON – 2013, IWSSIP - 2014, APEIE – 2014

Achievements: - Increased state scholarship for academic achievement in science - summer and winter semesters of 2013/14.


Licenses & certifications

English for Analysts

Issued: May 2025

Certified by English for IT Specialists created by Yandex Practicum

Machine Learning DevOps Engineer

Issued: Apr 2025

Certified by Udacity

Advanced Process Control System PCTP (SMOC). Engineering course

Issued: Nov 2017

Certified by Yokogawa

Математика и Python для анализа данных (Math and Python for data analysis)

Issued: Sep 2017

Certified by Coursera

Neural Networks for Machine Learning

Issued: Aug 2017

Certified by Coursera

Machine Learning

Issued: Mar 2017

Certified by Coursera

Теория игр (Game Theory)

Issued: Dec 2016

Certified by Coursera

Certificate of participation in Conference «Management of the Future»

Issued: Apr 2016

Certified by Graduate School of Management administration

Certificate of participation in International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing - IWSSIP 2014

Issued: May 2014

Certified by University of Zagreb

Certificate of participation in International Siberian Conference on Control and Communications - SIBCON 2013

Issued: Feb 2014

Certified by Siberian State University

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