Andrei Lapanik

Andrei Lapanik Warsaw, Poland • - •-• linkedin.com/in/alapanik Senior ML Engineer With 15+ years of experience, I'm a seasoned technology leader with expertise in AI, machine learning, big data, and computer vision. In my career I have led teams and projects across industries like adtech, martech, cybersecurity, and video stream processing. My skillset allows me to drive products from concept to deployment across the AI/ML lifecycle. WORK EXPERIENCE hCaptcha by Intuition Machines Inc. • Warsaw, Poland • 09/2020 - Present Privacy-focused captcha solution: serving about 20% of Internet - second after Google’s ReCaptcha, 1M Publishers, 100M+ image impressions/day Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Full-time • Optimized data acquisition and labeling systems through crowd-sourcing and active learning techniques, leading to an immense reduction in labeling time and increased scalability of machine learning pipelines • Applied LLM+prompt engineering for generating over 10K questions for accessibility challenges with automated review process based on actor-critique approach that helped to improve bot-stopping rate for clients with enabled accessibility mode. • Optimized client onboarding for labeling jobs using LLM+LangChain assistant based on a combination of prompt engineering and fine-tuning , reducing time and cost for running image labeling at scale. • Handled image batch processing like blur detection, NSFW filtering, and superresolution via Argo Workflows at scale of 1M images. Scylla • Minsk, Belarus • 12/2019 - 09/2020 Computer Vision Engineer • Full-time • Developed a novel approach to action recognition, increasing processing speed by 30% and reducing latency. Epica • Minsk, Belarus • 04/2018 - 11/2019 Data Science Lead • Full-time • Collaborated with Data Scientists to deploy model prototypes increasing marketing campaign conversion rates by using smart user clusters • Delivered Shopify app for product recommendations and smart search from inception to production RocketScience.ai • Minsk, Belarus • 10/2016 - 03/2018 Co-founder, Software System Architect • Full-time • Drove the delivery management and business development of ML projects, resulting in the successful deployment of ML models at scale and delivering value to enterprise clients: Bayer, Epica, Scylla, iCetana • Team was acqui-hired by Epica. SKILLS Airflow, Apache Kafka, AWS, Batch Processing, Behavior Analysis, CI/CD, ClickHouse, Computer Vision, Data Science, Deep Learning, Delivery Management, Docker, ElasticSearch, FastAPI, Flask, H2O.ai, HF Transformers, Java, Matplotlib, Microsoft Azure, Monitoring, Natural Language Processing (NLP), NumPy, Object Detection, Observability, OpenCV, Pandas, PostgreSQL, Public Speaking, PySpark, Python, Recommender Systems, Redis, spaCy, Team Leading EDUCATION M Sc. Applied Mathematics And Informatics Department Belarusian State University