Mike Panfilov

Current Trajectory & Focus Areas: 🤖 LLM Ops & AI Infrastructure: Building production-ready RAG architectures, prompt tracing, vector DB operations, and LLM evaluation pipelines (LLM-as-a-judge). ⚙️ Data & ML Engineering: Bridging the gap between Big Data pipelines and GenAI serving (Fine-tuning, vLLM, CI/CD for ML). 🎓 Academic: MSc in Big Data Analytics @ HSE (Focus on Machine Learning & Applied AI). 👥 Leadership: Mentoring junior engineers, technical interviewing, and supporting DS/Analytics teams. Open to networking, AI Infra discussions, and opportunities at the intersection of Data Engineering and LLM Ops.