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Maria
🇺🇦Ukraine (UTC+02:00)
Created AtUpstaffer since March, 2026

Maria — AI/Machine Learning Engineer

Expertise in AI and Machine Learning (8.0 yr.), Data Engineer (8.0 yr.).

 Last verified on March, 2026

Core Skills

Python
Python
8 yr.
TensorFlow
TensorFlow
8 yr.
PyTorch
PyTorch
8 yr.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
2 yr.
SciPy
SciPy
8 yr.

AI Tools & Assistants

Claude
Claude
Gemini
Gemini

Bio Summary

  • AI/ML Engineer with 8+ years leading projects in computer vision, NLP, and predictive modeling, leveraging Python, C++, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Expertise in designing scalable ML pipelines, time series forecasting, and real-time data processing using TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark, and MLflow.
  • Proven track record managing teams and delivering AI-driven solutions including automated lead generation, chatbot systems, and image-based product classification.
  • Strong background in applied mathematics with Master’s degree, skilled in advanced algorithms, ensemble methods, and deep learning architectures (CNNs, Transformers, GNNs).
  • Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), containerization (Docker), and cloud-native services for end-to-end ML lifecycle management.

Technical Skills

Programming LanguagesPython
AI & Machine LearningAmazon Machine learning services, AWS SageMaker, AWS Textract, BERT, Claude, Hugging Face, Keras, LangChain, LangGraph, LSTM, Mlflow, Neural Networks, NumPy, OpenAI, OpenCV, Optuna, PandasAI, PyTorch, RNN, Scikit-learn, Spacy, Tensorboard, TensorFlow, Transformer, Xgboost, YOLO
Java FrameworksApache Spark
Scala FrameworksApache Spark
Python Libraries and ToolsBeautiful Soup, Keras, Matplotlib, NLTK, NumPy, PySpark, PyTesseract, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, SciPy, Seaborn, TensorFlow
Data Analysis and Visualization TechnologiesApache Spark, Databricks, DataFrame library, GeoJSON, LightGBM, PandasAI, Time Series
Databases & Management Systems / ORMApache Spark, AWS DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Supabase
Cloud Platforms, Services & ComputingGCP
Amazon Web ServicesAWS Boto3, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS SageMaker, AWS Textract, botocore
Google Cloud PlatformCloud Functions
Azure Cloud ServicesDatabricks
Industry Domain ExperienceLogistics & Supply Chain
Third Party Tools / IDEs / SDK / ServicesAutoCAD
Deployment, CI/CD & AdministrationCD DevOps pipelines
SDK / API and IntegrationsCollections API, Google Maps API, Twilio
Virtualization, Containers and OrchestrationDocker
Collaboration, Task & Issue TrackingIBM Rational ClearCase
Web/App Servers, MiddlewareWeb Methods
Other Technical SkillsCNNs, ES, Spark MLLib, Tesseract OCR

Work Experience

AI/Machine Learning Engineer/Team Lead (Demand intelligence platform)

Duration: 1 year

Summary:

  • Creation of a fully automated service for various predictions of city load in UAE based on current events, weather, and historical data from multiple non-synchronized sources
  • The platform integrates geographical data at multiple levels to provide accurate forecasting

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the project and lead the team
  • Develop parsing modules for all data sources and analyze the data
  • Develop time series forecasting models based on historical data
  • Design and create database for storing and continuous update of data
  • Process geographical data covering different geographical levels (country, emirate, city, district)
  • Build pipelines for asynchronous execution of different models

Technologies: Python, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Google Maps, AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, EC2, Redshift), Spark, MLlib, GeoJSON, Shapely

AI/Machine Learning Engineer (Nosis AI Voice Bot)

Duration: 6 months

Summary: Development of a chatbot for polling a large number of people regarding their political preferences for a particular event in Australia, designed to handle various human behaviors and simulate real-human agent interactions.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the project and lead the team
  • Design conversational flow for polling
  • Implement various types of questions for different expected or unexpected human behavior
  • Apply fallbacks for questions without expected replies
  • Tweak agent settings to imitate a real-human agent
  • Manage demos and large group tests, upgrading the flow based on results

Technologies: Python, Dialogflow ES, Twilio, nltk, spaCy

AI/Machine Learning Engineer/Team Lead (Genie Words Ads Generation)

Duration: 1 year

Summary: Development of an AI system generating contextual selling advertising headlines and descriptions for texts scraped from websites in Danish and English, incorporating advanced text generation and filtering techniques.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the project and lead the team
  • Develop text generation system based on Markov Chains and large language models
  • Improve service with filtering system using distance metrics like cosine similarity, Levenshtein distance, and fuzzy logic
  • Include sentiment, polarity, and linguistic analysis
  • Implement keyword extraction algorithms
  • Create generation algorithms based on templates
  • Add human-in-the-loop evaluation for continuous model improvement

Technologies: Python, OpenAI, Bert, Transformers, SpaCy, NLTK, Numpy, Scipy, AFINN, Markov Chains, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch

AI/Machine Learning Engineer (Wie Label)

Duration: 6 months

Summary: Creation of a platform for scanning products, classifying them, detecting specific features, and generating marketing descriptions, including pre- and post-processing modules for asynchronous generation and filtering.

Responsibilities:

  • Classify products in images and data based on customer-provided ontology
  • Extract labels, fit, material composition of products
  • Design database and data structure
  • Generate product descriptions using OpenAI in German
  • Create pre- and post-processing modules for asynchronous generation, processing, and filtering

Technologies: Python, OpenAI API, Pandas, NLTK, Spacy, Boto3, Botocore, Supabase, OpenCV

AI/Machine Learning Engineer (Porch)

Duration: 2 years

Summary: Contribution to an automated lead bidding system on auctions, focusing on investigating poor model performance, researching and processing large datasets, and improving modeling and data processing pipelines.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze and investigate poor model performance
  • Create local databases using Docker
  • Participate in database migration to Azure
  • Form and filter datasets for training
  • Develop and train new models
  • Optimize codebase for training and evaluation
  • Research and implement new features for modeling
  • Re-create pipelines using Apache Spark

Technologies: Python, SQL, Azure, Databricks, Docker, Polars, Pandas, XGBoost, MLFlow, scikit-learn, Spark, PySpark, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn

AI/Machine Learning Engineer (TradeSun)

Duration: 2 years

Summary: Automation of processing unstructured financial trading documents to extract necessary information for financial transactions, improving throughput, turnaround, and thoroughness of trade operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Extract and identify key fields from documents to classify type and predict relevance
  • Develop new features, algorithms, and models; update existing ones
  • Improve evaluation process and invent business metrics
  • Log and solve bugs in the service
  • Create a demo for real-time information extraction with click-highlighted areas
  • Continuously improve existing features and processes

Technologies: Python, Pytesseract, AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Textract, S3), Pandas, Numpy, BeautifulSoup, Boto3, Botocore

AI/Machine Learning Engineer/Team Lead (Mauka Digital Lead Generation)

Duration: 6 months

Summary: Development of a fully automated lead generation system to find qualified leads, place them in the sales funnel, and increase quarterly revenue through advanced text and speech analysis.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the project and lead the team
  • Analyze and filter datasets
  • Build custom text classifiers to analyze human speech for sales management
  • Implement methods for context and text analysis including sentiment analysis, language detection, and part of speech analysis
  • Design and build database structure

Technologies: Python, Spacy, NLTK, Pandas, scikit-learn, Numpy, Scipy, NRCLex, Tensorflow

AI/Machine Learning Engineer (Mojo)

Duration: 6 months

Summary: Development of a platform for cell distortion recognition in clinical trials to accelerate selection of high-quality sperm, improving accuracy and enabling more targeted fertility treatments.

Responsibilities:

  • Create algorithm to detect spermatozoids in microscope video feed
  • Classify items by mutations to select suitable samples for conception
  • Detect position, movement, direction, and speed of spermatozoids
  • Apply filters to improve tracking processes
  • Log and solve bugs in the service

Technologies: Python, OpenCV, Numpy, Scipy, Tensorflow, Tensorboard, Scikit-image, YOLO

Education

  • V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
    Master of Applied Maths
  • V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
    Bachelor of Applied Maths

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