Alexey Zaytsev

Select client engagements: • AI Storyboarding Platform (Python backend): Integrated new image generation providers and refactored the generation abstraction layer across use cases (assets, scenes, inpainting). • Earnings Call Analysis & CEO Training: Engineered a low-latency transcription + LLM pipeline (AWS Transcribe / Deepgram) with speaker diarization and financial metrics extraction. Built a companion CEO training module that simulates analyst Q&A via TTS, transcribes spoken responses, and scores both content quality and delivery (WPM, filler words). • Open-source AI projects: congusto-chat, lovely-docs, pelican, latent-tools, nvml-tool.

Led development of the generative AI platform supporting image, video, and 3D model generation. Served tens of thousands of users, generating hundreds of thousands of images: • Architecture & Inference: Built an end-to-end generation pipeline. The frontend talked to the backend that talked to Supabase/PostgreSQL, which queued tasks via RabbitMQ. Distributed GPU workers picked up the jobs, generated the media, uploaded to S3 (served via CloudFront+imgproxy), and pinged a backend webhook, which finally streamed updates to the client via Server-Sent Events. • Model Fine-tuning: Extensive work with Stable Diffusion inference, custom model fine-tuning, and LoRAs to optimize generation quality and capabilities. • Custom NSFW Detector: Trained and deployed an EfficientNet classifier to replace off-the-shelf filters with high false-positive rates, reaching production-grade precision directly in the distributed GPU worker pipeline. • MLOps & DevOps: Orchestrated and scaled the distributed inference infrastructure.

Independent consulting focused on AI applications and prototypes. Select engagements: • Dog Finder: An experimental missing-dog app exploring both facial recognition and noseprint uniqueness. Trained EfficientNet with triplet loss. • SAT Practice Generator: A dynamically updating test prep system seeded by real data. Built with Streamlit, Airtable, and OpenAI LLMs-migrating from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 largely solved our initial correctness and consistency struggles. • GPTEditor: An AI-assisted copywriting tool-like Cursor, but for prose. Users highlight a paragraph and instruct the LLM on how to rewrite it. Built with SvelteKit, Tiptap, and Supabase.

Smart solar grid tech: designed the main grid hub (Solar → Battery → regulated DC loads and high voltage sharing), a debugging adapter, and auxiliary internal boards. Schematics, PCB design, DC-DC converters and analog monitoring circuits. Led a small hardware team (3 engineers).

Dozens of client projects across digital, analog, and power electronics - from initial concept to production-ready designs and manufacturing oversight. Clients in medical devices, scientific instruments, food and consumer electronics. Designed and set up end-of-line automated testing, trained factory workers, and oversaw manufacturing in Shenzhen factories.

EdTech startup providing affordable laboratory equipment for molecular biology education in schools. Designed spectrophotometer, electrophoresis and transilluminator - hardware, electronics, mechanical enclosures, and embedded software. Co-founded with fellow students from the CRI Paris program.

Developed the first iteration of a low-cost, open-source spectrophotometer - the project that later evolved into the Koi.science startup.

Characterizing bacteriophage origin of replication region, exploring the potential of applying genetically engineered λ-phages to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in burn victims. Contributed to a published paper.

Researching the influence of electric fields on mammalian cell mobility and wound healing.

Virtio drivers for network and block devices, general kernel maintenance, bugfixes and development on illumos (OpenSolaris fork).

Linux kernel development for high-bandwidth telecom equipment. AltEll: 10 Gbps network routers. Protei: telephony over dedicated lines, WiMAX and GPRS/UMTS base stations. Device drivers, bootloaders, and board support packages on MIPS64, ARM and x86.