AI Application Engineer building LLM-powered solutions at Yandex Lavka
📍 Moscow, Russia | 🕐 GMT+3 | 📱 +353 85 119 1174
Software Engineer with experience at Yandex and in High-Frequency Trading, building high-load distributed systems and low-latency infrastructure. I've taken technical ownership of product streams, covering the full development cycle: from shaping product requirements and system design to setting up automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring. Strong background in C++ microservices and system optimization.
Beyond backend engineering, I participated in integrating LLM Voice Agents into retail workflows, launching the country's first voice assistant for hands-free ordering. I enjoy complex algorithms and am deepening my expertise in Distributed Systems at YSDA (Yandex School of Data Analysis).
Moscow, Russia
Yandex Lavka — Major Q-commerce service (15-min grocery delivery), comparable to Getir or Gorillas.
Sep. 2025 - present
LLM Agents MCP Voice Agents
- Pioneered the country's first retail voice assistant powered by LLM agents, enabling hands-free ordering via natural language commands.
- Integrated intent-based smart replies into the AI chat assistant, driving a 1.5x increase in DAU.
- Automated product variant generation in the PIM system by developing a custom AI tool, reducing manual workload by 5 FTEs.
- Led the AI stream for PIM and the Client App, managing a team of two in planning and execution.
Oct. 2023 - Sep. 2025
C++ Userver Microservices PostgreSQL
- Boosted robot utilization by 20% through leading delivery robot development.
- Accelerated time-to-market for new features by 50% via a new offer generation mechanism.
- Launched weighted products in Yandex Lavka, growing GMV by 0.65%.
- Rolled out deferred delivery, driving a 4.66% increase in order volume.
- Developed an integration testing platform for Yandex Lavka backend.
- Reduced system criticality from Tier A to B by optimizing the delivery conditions service.
- Lowered support requests by 7% by introducing automated returns through SupportAI.
Quantitative Developer
Sydney, Australia (remote) | Sep. 2022 - Sep. 2023
Solidity Python C++ Web3 Asyncio
- Researched and implemented trading infrastructure for the Uniswap V3 protocol, unlocking access to a wide range of new tokens and market opportunities.
- Optimized custom trading smart contracts for Uniswap V3, reducing gas consumption by approximately 11% per transaction.
- Implemented a transaction simulator on Ethereum (L1/L2) using a local Geth node via gRPC, reducing simulation time by 60x.
- Integrated Flashbots bundles for atomic transaction execution, eliminating front-running risks and ensuring zero gas waste on reverted trades.
Distributed systems design program
Moscow | Sep. 2025 - present
BSc in Software Engineering, GPA: 8.6 / 10
Moscow | Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2025
C++ Java Python SQL JavaScript Mathematica YQL
PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Docker Kubernetes Terraform Nginx Protocol Buffers gRPC Spring Framework REST API Java EE Linux Git CI/CD Grafana Prometheus
Userver FastAPI Asyncio PyTorch Pandas
Algorithms & Data Structures Distributed Systems Systems Design OOP Competitive Programming High-Load Architecture Concurrent Computing
Leadership Mentoring Business Alignment Document Review Interview Preparation
English (Fluent)