maxschmaltz,Max Schmaltz,github

I'm Max, nice to have you here👋

About Me📌

Young and enthusiastic NLP / LLM Engineer
5+ years of experience in Python, Machine and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (including Large Language Models)
Generative LLMs? Bring it on!
Creating tools for German NLP as a hobby
Learn faster than Logistic Regression
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Tech Stack🛠️

Programming Languages

Python: AI Basic Frameworks

Python: NLP

Python: TSF

Python: Misc

Deployment

Professional Background🧑‍💻

IAV: Working Student for LLMs

• Implemented and integrated a tool for evaluation of Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines (Python, LangChain, Ragas, HF datasets, Azure)

• Currently, connecting OpenAI function calling to our internal on-premise models (Python, TGI, LangChain)

MKSKOM: Data Scientist / NLP Engineer

• Implemented backend for a custom Llama-2-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation Engine for a large customer (Python, LangChain, Llama.cpp, HF Transformers)

• Increased the number of responses from potential customers on a freelance platform by 5 times by independently designing and implementing an automated LLM-based tool for search and filtering posts and contacting potential customers with relevant infos (Python, Puzzle [internal tool])

• Implemented tools for Natural Language Processing, Time Series Prediction, Optimization Modelling, Data Analysis (Python, PyTorch, spaCy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, Pandas, NumPy)

• Сommunicated with potential customers

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: Student Assistant, Tutor (Various Courses)

• Created Finite-States Transducers for measuring distance between German dialects for the course "String Algorithms" (Python, pynini)

• Contributed into holding lectures, created and evaluated assignments for courses "Python for Beginners", "Statistical Language Processing II", "String Algorithms"

Yandex: Assessor

• Evaluated search engine results on IT-themed queries

• Evaluated machine translations

Lomonosov MSU Gymnasium: Course Instructor (Linguistics for Olympiades)

• Held lectures, composed and evaluated assignments for the Course "Linguistics for Olympiads"

Educational Background🧑‍🎓

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: Bachelor (in progress)

• 2024 (in progress) Bachelor thesis on applying LLMs to solving non-trivial linguistic tasks (on the example of splitting German compounds (Python, LangChain, PyTorch, HF transformers, spaCy)

• 2024 Group project on investigating influence of RL fine-tuning data on biasing LLMs (Python, HF transformers)

• 2023 Participated at the SemEval 2023 and published a paper at the ACL Anthology (Python, HF transformers, HF datasets)

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: Exchange Semester

• 2022 Applied for the Bachelor at the Uni Tübingen, got admitted and transferred

Lomonosov MSU: Bachelor (incomplete)

• 2022 Personal project DERBI: a tool for automatic inflection of German words (Python)

• 2022 Conference diploma for DERBI: Lomonosov-2022 (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Science Sessions-2022 (Kant Baltic Federal University), XXII International Conference of Young Slavists (Tallinn University)

• 2021 Term paper on predicting ablaut class of German strong verbs (Python, PyTorch)

Lomonosov MSU Gymnasium: High School

• 2019 Prize-winner of All-Russian Olympiad for Linguistics (gives no-exam admission to the top university of choice)

• 2019 Graduation with a Gold Medal

Fun Facts😎

I've been living on my own from the age of 15
I gave up Lomonosov MSU to leave for Germany in 2022
My best friend and I have found a startup, the app is currently in beta testing
In 2019, I became a prize-winner of All-Russian Olympiade for Linguistics, while I had only 5 month to prepare
The prize gave me a right to enter any university of my choice in Russia for major Linguistics without any exams at all
I completed a musical education, now I compose songs from time to time
I got my first driving license when I was 17: that one was for motorcycles with 125cc and smaller engines
At 18, came back to the same driving school to obtain further licenses: for autos and for large displacement motorcycles; the funny part is, I drove to the exam place on my moto to take an exam for driving motos
I learned to weld in 3 days just for fun and crafted a food stand for my dog

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