hi_melnikov
Founding ML engineer in Tbilisi with experience building large-scale recommender and ranking systems, seeking an ownership-heavy role in ML/search/personalization and open to remote or relocation with sponsorship.
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Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4) · (EU/UK visa-eligible) Remote: Yes — contractor or EOR; Deel, Remote and Rippling all cover Georgia. Can move my base to Serbia (UTC+1/+2) for European hours. Willing to relocate: Yes — EU or UK with sponsorship Technologies: Python, SQL, PyTorch, XGBoost/LightGBM, FAISS, recsys, recommender systems, ranking, retrieval, personalization, search relevance, A/B testing, Airflow, Dagster, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, LLM/agent systems (OpenRouter, MCP, LangChain, Langfuse, evals) Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15_mV86W64KUkjVvvrc_tfS5ZRpJAZZTf/view Email: [email protected] GitHub: https://github.com/Melnikovartem LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hi-melnikov Founding ML engineer on a consumer platform with 5M+ monthly users — built recommender system from the ground up. Rebuilt homepage ranking for +36% median session time, then personalization for +10% in targeted cohorts, both A/B tested. Owned the whole slice — models, the Airflow and ClickHouse pipelines under them, and the service that served it. Before that, self-driving at Yandex. What I'm after is a team where I own an area and help set its technical direction — working out how we move the metric and discussing it through with the product side, rather than working from a backlog someone else has already scoped. The last two years were close to that, and it's the part of the job I actually like. Available now.
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