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Irina Buntina

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Senior NLP Engineer

I am NLP Engineer with 6+ years of experience turning data, machine learning and language models into practical business outcomes.

About

Experienced in building production-grade AI agents, Text-2-SQL systems, RAG-based applications and NLP solutions for analytics and operational automation. I have hands-on experience fine-tuning both encoder and decoder-based models for classification, generation and domain adaptation tasks. My work contributed to measurable business impact, including annualized cost savings of around $80K. Domains: Fintech, Telecom, E-commerce Tech stack: Python, SQL, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, CatBoost, XGBoost LLM/NLP: Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LangGraph, LoRA, SFT, RAG MLOps & Data Tools: MLflow, Docker, CI/CD, Airflow, Git, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Qdrant Deployment: FastAPI, model monitoring, Flask, offline evaluation, production ML workflows

Career

Experience: 6 years

Experience

Data Scientist

Klaviyo

Jan 2020 — Jan 2022

• Developed a CLV prediction model for e-commerce customers that enabled high-value audience segmentation and increased revenue per recipient by 3–5% in pilot email/SMS campaigns. • Built a churn risk prediction model based on purchase history and email engagement, increasing repeat purchase rate by 0.5–0.9 percentage points in retention campaigns. • Implemented a send-time optimization model that selected the best email delivery window by segment and improved open rate by 2–4% without increasing unsubscribe or spam metrics.

NLP Engineer

TransTeleCom

Feb 2022 — Dec 2024

• Developed an LLM-based sales script generation service for customer segments, products, funnel stages, and typical objections, increasing first-contact conversion by 8.4%. • Fine-tuned Qwen2-7B-Instruct with QLoRA on internal sales scenarios to improve a RAG-based sales script generator reducing major edit rate from 30–35% to 18–23%. • Fine-tuned a BERT-like encoder for multi-label text classification of ASR-based support dialogues, enabling automatic QA checklist scoring and cutting initial review time from 8–10 to 4–5 minutes per case.

Senior NLP Engineer

Sber

Dec 2024 — Present

• Developed a GigaChat-based Text-to-SQL AI agent that reduced ad-hoc SQL requests to data engineers by 32.4% and saved around 80 person-hours per month for the B2C reporting team. • Built an AI-agent application for BI analysts that automatically generated and uploaded summaries of B2C master monitoring dashboards, reducing management reporting preparation time by 3 hours per week. • Developed an AI-powered document routing agent for SberDocs that reduced the average document approval cycle by 25–30% and saved headquarters secretaries 30–40 minutes per day.

Education

Bachelor of the Faculty of Physics (direction of Physical Informatics)

NSU

2020 — 2024

Master’s degree in Information Management and Processing Systems

HSE

2024 — 2026

Skills

PythonSQLTransformersPyTorchLangChainLangGraphXGBoostCatBoostMLflowAirflowPost- greSQLQdrantRAGFlaskFastAPIDockerCI/CDMachine learningNLP