Hello, I'm Nikita

Senior AI Engineer | Machine Learning Architect | AI Researcher

Innovative and impact-driven Senior AI Engineer with over 12 years of experience building, scaling, and deploying AI/ML systems across FAANG companies (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and high-impact startups. Expert in machine learning architecture, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, and MLOps. Proven track record solving global-scale problems—from fraud detection and autonomous systems to climate AI and personalized healthcare.

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Nikita Sutskever

About Me

Innovative and impact-driven Senior AI Engineer with over 12 years of experience building, scaling, and deploying AI/ML systems across FAANG companies (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and high-impact startups. Expert in machine learning architecture, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, and MLOps. Proven track record solving global-scale problems—from fraud detection and autonomous systems to climate AI and personalized healthcare.

Experience

Senior AI Research Engineer

Google DeepMind

Led development of AlphaCarbon, a generative model for protein folding with faster inference than AlphaFold. Created knowledge-aware LLMs for scientific QA over 20M+ PubMed articles. Built scalable distributed training infrastructure with 4x speedup on TPUv4 pods.

Staff AI Engineer

Meta (Facebook AI Research - FAIR)

Architected RealTimeDet, Meta’s production object detection system for Reels and Marketplace. Reduced model latency by 60% using quantized vision transformers on mobile devices. Co-authored Meta’s fairness-aware recommendation engine for 3B users.

Senior Applied Scientist

Amazon Web Services (AWS AI Labs)

Designed and deployed anomaly detection models for AWS Shield (DDoS protection). Built AutoML pipeline powering over 500 enterprise ML workloads. Led AWS Sagemaker’s distributed training integration with Horovod + EFA.

Machine Learning Engineer II

Netflix

Optimized personalization algorithms for dynamic thumbnails and content ranking. Developed adaptive bit-rate prediction models for 200M+ global users.

AI/ML Intern, Siri Team

Apple

Built a voice intent classifier improving Siri’s accuracy on African English accents by 35%.

Education

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

Stanford University · 2011 – 2013

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Egerton University, Kenya · 2007 – 2011

Skills & Technologies

Deep Learning
LLMs
Transformers
GANs
CNNs
Reinforcement Learning
GNNs
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
AWS
MLOps

Featured Projects

ClimateNet

Co-founded open-source AI project to predict extreme climate events. Uses satellite imagery + temporal transformers to model hurricane trajectories. Deployed to African climate agencies for early flood warnings.

LLMGuard

Built a security layer for enterprise LLMs to detect prompt injection, hallucination risks, and leakage. Adopted by 20+ enterprise clients and integrated into LangChain plugins.

MediVision AI

Deep learning system for retinal disease detection using fundus images. Deployed in 15 rural hospitals across India and East Africa.

SafeChat AI

Contextual moderation and real-time toxicity filtering for chatbots and generative AI apps. Hugging Face model with 10M+ downloads.