Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4) · (EU/UK visa-eligible)

Remote: Yes — contractor or EOR; Deel, Remote and Rippling all cover Georgia. Can move my base to Serbia (UTC+1/+2) for European hours.

Willing to relocate: Yes — EU or UK with sponsorship

Technologies: Python, SQL, PyTorch, XGBoost/LightGBM, FAISS, recsys, recommender systems, ranking, retrieval, personalization, search relevance, A/B testing, Airflow, Dagster, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, LLM/agent systems (OpenRouter, MCP, LangChain, Langfuse, evals)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15_mV86W64KUkjVvvrc_tfS5ZRpJ...

Email: melnikovam10@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/Melnikovartem

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hi-melnikov

Founding ML engineer on a consumer platform with 5M+ monthly users — built recommender system from the ground up. Rebuilt homepage ranking for +36% median session time, then personalization for +10% in targeted cohorts, both A/B tested. Owned the whole slice — models, the Airflow and ClickHouse pipelines under them, and the service that served it. Before that, self-driving at Yandex.

What I'm after is a team where I own an area and help set its technical direction — working out how we move the metric and discussing it through with the product side, rather than working from a backlog someone else has already scoped. The last two years were close to that, and it's the part of the job I actually like. Available now.