Applied ML Engineer working on LLM fine-tuning, production RAG, and reinforcement learning. Independent B2B contractor — open to long-term engagements (6+ months) or well-scoped projects.
- qlora-finetune — QLoRA fine-tuning of 7B models with reproducible training, eval, and merge-for-vLLM tooling
- hybrid-rag — Production RAG pipeline: BM25 + dense + RRF + cross-encoder rerank + 3-axis LLM-as-Judge eval
- decision-transformer-gtrxl — Decision Transformer with GTrXL backbone and World Model auxiliary head, plus a C++17 / AVX2 batched env via pybind11
LLMs — PyTorch · HuggingFace Transformers · PEFT · TRL · vLLM · LangChain · Qdrant · sentence-transformers ML — Reinforcement Learning · Decision Transformer · World Models · CatBoost · Weights & Biases Systems — C++17 · AVX2 SIMD · pybind11 · CUDA · Docker · Linux
Email: timponomarev.dev@gmail.com