Ivan Kitaev

Ivan Kitaev currently serves as the Data Science Tech Lead at BillingPlatform, where responsibilities include developing a LLM-powered agent that utilizes RAG and text-to-sql technologies, achieving a 7% reduction in data retrieval time. Previously, Ivan held the same role at Aristek Systems, focusing on a LLM-based RAG chatbot for education, offering features like document generation and instant learning assistance. At UnaFinancial, Ivan's work on a LLM-based chatbot substantially increased purchase conversion rates by 362%. In an earlier position at Gazpromneft-NTC, the development of a classification ML model for rock typing improved drilling efficiency by 10% and lowered costs by 8%. Ivan holds two Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and Tomsk Polytechnic University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Tyumen State University.