Levon Y.

Levon Y.

Senior ML Engineer

Portugal
Trusted member since 2026
8 years of experience

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, with extensive expertise in building scalable ML systems from experimentation to production.

Throughout his career, he has delivered high-impact machine learning solutions that improved business outcomes, including recovering 10% of previously unresolved fraud cases through uplift classification, achieving 90% automated document classification accuracy using BERT and FastText models, and developing computer vision models that reached 96% character recognition accuracy. His experience spans the full machine learning lifecycle, including data preparation, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous optimization.

In addition to his technical expertise, he has led engineering initiatives and collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into production-ready AI solutions. With hands-on experience in data pipeline design, MLOps, cloud infrastructure, and model deployment, he is well equipped to deliver reliable, scalable machine learning systems that create measurable business value.

Main expertise

Machine LearningMachine Learning8 years
PythonPython7 years
AWSAWS1 year
Amazon SageMakerAmazon SageMaker1 year
12+

Experience4

Grid Dynamics

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Grid Dynamics
Information Technology (IT) and Services
Apr 2025 · 1y 5m

Grid Dynamics is a digital engineering company providing AI, analytics, and cloud solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises. Engaged on an Apple project.

  • Conducted safety evaluations of summarization systems for app store reviews and music search queries.
  • Generated synthetic datasets and designed prompt-based classification pipelines using various large language models (LLMs).
  • Identified unsafe model outputs and contributed to improving model alignment with established safety standards.
  • Optimized prompt engineering strategies to improve classification accuracy across multiple content categories.
PythonPython
Machine LearningMachine Learning
OpenAI APIOpenAI API
Prompt EngineeringPrompt Engineering
Large Language Models (LLM)Large Language Models (LLM)
6+
Simple Life

Senior Data Scientist

Simple Life
Healthcare
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025 · 8m

Simple Life is a health and wellness platform focused on personalized weight loss and user retention through data-driven task assignment.

  • Developed a personalized task assignment system to improve user weight loss outcomes and increase retention rates.
  • Led the end-to-end release of recommendation modules to all production users.
  • Built data pipelines and analytical models using Python, SQL, Amazon SageMaker, and Snowflake.
  • Applied retention analysis using Retentioneering to identify churn patterns and optimize user engagement flows.
AWSAWS
PythonPython
SQLSQL
Data ScienceData Science
PandasPandas
2+
Portmind

Machine Learning Specialist

Portmind
Information Technology (IT) and Services
Aug 2021 - Jul 2024 · 2y 11m

Portmind is a technology company delivering ML-powered solutions for evidence prediction, document intelligence, and industrial automation.

  • Led a team in improving evidence prediction through similar description identification and uplift classification, recovering 10% of previously unresolved cases.
  • Leveraged large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI models and Zephyr 7B, for feature engineering, automating 80% of financial fraud detection workflows.
  • Managed a truck and container number detection project, increasing the size of the domain-specific dataset by 75% through web scraping and synthetic data generation.
  • Built object detection and character recognition models using PyTorch and YOLO, achieving 96% object detection accuracy and 80% character recognition accuracy.
  • Collaborated on a patent classification solution for Philip Morris International, designing a multi-label classification pipeline using Scikit-learn and LightGBM.
  • Assessed label quality through in-depth annotation analysis, identifying an estimated 15% mislabeling rate.
  • Created interactive data visualizations using Streamlit and deployed machine learning solutions with Docker.
DockerDocker
Project ManagementProject Management
PythonPython
PyTorchPyTorch
Scikit-learnScikit-learn
5+
Webb Fontaine

Machine Learning Specialist

Webb Fontaine
Government and Public Services
May 2018 - Aug 2021 · 3y 3m

Webb Fontaine is a technology company specializing in AI-driven customs and trade facilitation solutions for governments worldwide.

  • Achieved a 90% automated HS code classification rate by training and optimizing FastText and BERT models.
  • Trained a transformer-based spell checker that improved text preprocessing quality for noisy descriptions by 20%.
  • Collaborated on the development of fraud detection models for invoices and shipping manifests, improving customs tax processes and security measures.
  • Designed and implemented data processing and machine learning training pipelines using Scikit-learn, CatBoost, and LightGBM.
  • Developed a clearance time forecasting model using the Holt-Winters forecasting algorithm.
  • Built a fake invoice detection system based on document layout analysis using OpenCV.
PythonPython
OpenCVOpenCV
PyTorchPyTorch
Scikit-learnScikit-learn
Machine LearningMachine Learning
3+

Assessments

Engineering excellence

Levon’s overall performance in a 90-minute live technical assessment ranks in the top 5% of vetted Senior ML Engineers at Proxify.

Certificates 1

Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AWS Certified Machine Learning – SpecialtyAmazon Web Services, Inc.

Issued Feb 2026 - Expires Feb 2029

AWSAWS
Machine LearningMachine Learning
Amazon SageMakerAmazon SageMaker
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AWS Certified Machine Learning – SpecialtyAmazon Web Services, Inc.

Issued Feb 2026 - Expires Feb 2029

AWSAWS
Machine LearningMachine Learning
Amazon SageMakerAmazon SageMaker
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Education

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Optics and Photonics2011 - 2013
YSU
Yerevan State University (YSU)
Theoretical Physics2006 - 2010

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