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Eugene Romanov

@wallrich

Senior ML/NLP Engineer | LLMs, RAG, AI Agents & MLOps

Senior ML/NLP Engineer with 6+ years of experience building production AI systems for banking and fintech.

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About

I specialize in LLMs, RAG, AI agents, PEFT fine-tuning, classical machine learning, and MLOps. I have led cross-functional teams and delivered scalable solutions for intelligent search, compliance, fraud detection, personalization, and business process automation with measurable impact.

Career

Experience: 6 years

Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Gazprombank

Oct 2021 — Present

Build production LLM, RAG, agentic AI, NLP, personalization, and retail modeling systems; lead a cross-functional team and monitor 60+ models in production.

Middle Machine Learning Engineer

Alfa-Bank

Nov 2020 — Oct 2021

Developed anti-fraud, NER, and adverse media screening systems for compliance, automating KYC workflows and reducing manual data entry.

Junior Machine Learning Engineer

QIWI Ltd

Sep 2019 — Nov 2020

Built B2B credit scoring and hybrid NLP classification systems using CatBoost, neural networks, and BERT, improving risk decisions and feedback classification.

Education

Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

ITMO University

2024 — 2026

Master's program in Artificial Intelligence.

Bachelor of Science in Risk Analysis & Economic Security

Financial University

2015 — 2019

Bachelor's degree in Risk Analysis and Economic Security.

Selected projects

AI Agent for Credit Application Analysis

Built a ReAct-based agent with Qwen3-14B-Instruct, PEFT LoRA, schema-aware tool-call validation, and execution trajectory control, reducing erroneous action chains by 15%.

RAG for Legal and Compliance Search

Designed a RAG system with Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct, fine-tuned BGE-M3 and BGE-Reranker, HyDE, and RRF, improving Recall@10 from 0.82 to 0.92.

Achievements

2.5× Increase in Campaign Response Rates

Gazprombank

Delivered a full-cycle retail modeling suite for churn, next-best-offer, uplift, and reactivation using CatBoost, TabNet, and RNN models.

Skills

PythonSQLPyTorchCatBoostLLMsRAGAI AgentsNLPMLOpsDocker