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maxschmaltz/README.md

I'm Max, nice to have you here👋


About Me📌

  • Young and enthusiastic NLP / LLM Engineer
  • 5+ years of experience in Python, Machine and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (including Large Language Models)
  • Generative LLMs? Bring it on!
  • Creating tools for German NLP as a hobby
  • Learn faster than Logistic Regression
  • Take a look at my resume (might render incorrectly in Safari)

Connect🤗

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Tech Stack🛠️

Programming Languages

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Python: AI Basic Frameworks

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Python: NLP

🦜️🔗LangChain OpenAI API 🦙llama-cpp-python 🤗 Transformers 🤗 Datasets NLTK spaCy Gensim pynini

Python: TSF

statsmodels pmdarima XGBoost

Python: Misc

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Deployment

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Professional Background🧑‍💻

IAV: Working Student for LLMs

    Further deepening and extension of my competencies | 2023-2024 | Berlin, Germany | Hybrid

    • Implemented and integrated a tool for evaluation of Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines (Python, LangChain, Ragas, HF datasets, Azure)

    • Connected OpenAI tool calling to our internal on-premise models (Python, TGI, LangChain)

MKSKOM: Data Scientist / NLP Engineer

    Best boost for my competencies | 2021-2023 | Moscow, Russia | Remote

    • Implemented backend for a custom Llama-2-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation Engine for a large customer (Python, LangChain, Llama.cpp, HF Transformers)

    • Increased the number of responses from potential customers on a freelance platform by 5 times by independently designing and implementing an automated LLM-based tool for search and filtering posts and contacting potential customers with relevant infos (Python, Puzzle [internal tool])

    • Implemented tools for Natural Language Processing, Time Series Prediction, Optimization Modelling, Data Analysis (Python, PyTorch, spaCy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, Pandas, NumPy)

    • Сommunicated with potential customers

    Best boost for my communication | 2022-2023 | Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | On-site

    • Held tutorials and contributed into evaluating assignments and projects for the courses "String Algorithms" (WiSe22/23), "Python for Beginners" (WiSe22/23), "Statistical Language Processing II" (SoSe23), "Reinforcement Learning for LLMs" (SoSe24)

    • Created Finite-States Transducers for measuring distance between German dialects for the course "String Algorithms" (Python, pynini)

Yandex: Assessor

    Deeper understanding of various IT topics | 2021-2022 | Moscow, Russia | Remote

    • Evaluated search engine results on IT-themed queries

    • Evaluated machine translations

Lomonosov MSU Gymnasium: Course Instructor (Linguistics for Olympiades)

    First experience of lecturing | 2021-2022 | Moscow, Russia | On-site

    • Held lectures, composed and evaluated assignments for the Course "Linguistics for Olympiads"


Educational Background🧑‍🎓

    Computational Linguistics | 2022-2024 | Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    • 2024 Bachelor thesis on applying LLMs to splitting German compounds (Python, LangChain, PyTorch, HF transformers)

    • 2024 Group project on investigating influence of RL fine-tuning data on biasing LLMs (Python, HF transformers)

    • 2023 Participated at the SemEval 2023 and published a paper at the ACL Anthology (Python, HF transformers, HF datasets)

Lomonosov MSU: Bachelor (incomplete)

    Theoretical and Applied Linguistics | 2019-2022 | Moscow, Russia

    • 2022 Personal project DERBI: a tool for automatic inflection of German words (Python)

    • 2022 Conference diploma for DERBI: Lomonosov-2022 (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Science Sessions-2022 (Kant Baltic Federal University), XXII International Conference of Young Slavists (Tallinn University)

    • 2021 Term paper on predicting ablaut class of German strong verbs (Python, PyTorch)

    History and Philology | 2017-2019 | Moscow, Russia

    • 2019 Prize-winner of All-Russian Olympiad for Linguistics (gives no-exam admission to the top university of choice)

    • 2019 Graduation with a Gold Medal


Fun Facts😎

  • I've been living on my own from the age of 15
  • I gave up Lomonosov MSU to leave for Germany in 2022
  • My best friend and I have found a startup, the app is currently in beta testing
  • In 2019, I became a prize-winner of All-Russian Olympiade for Linguistics, while I had only 5 month to prepare
  • The prize gave me a right to enter any university of my choice in Russia for major Linguistics without any exams at all
  • I completed a musical education, now I compose songs from time to time
  • I got my first driving license when I was 17: that one was for motorcycles with 125cc and smaller engines
  • At 18, came back to the same driving school to obtain further licenses: for autos and for large displacement motorcycles; the funny part is, I drove to the exam place on my moto to take an exam for driving motos
  • I learned to weld in 3 days just for fun and crafted a food stand for my dog

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  1. DERBI DERBI Public

    DERBI (DEutscher RegelBasierter Inflektor) is a simple rule-based automatic inflection model for German based on spaCy. Applicable regardless of POS!

    Python 3 2

  2. MarChie MarChie Public

    An Open Source Tool for Analyzing Discrete Markov Chains.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  3. WebSemble WebSemble Public

    An ensemble approach to solution of Clickbait Challenge at SemEval 2023.

    Python

  4. DummyLyricsGenerator DummyLyricsGenerator Public

    A dummy web app for generating funny lyrics with ChatGPT.

    Python

  5. Hirer Hirer Public

    A Simple LLM-Powered Hiring Plan Creator.

    Python

  6. maxschmaltz maxschmaltz Public

    I'm Max, nice to have you here👋