Maria Chakchurina

Maria Chakchurina is a highly skilled NLP Data Scientist and ML Engineer currently at BioAge Labs, where notable achievements include a 15x reduction in data processing costs and the implementation of BERT-based document chunking for data extraction. Previously, as an MLOps Developer at Quantori, Maria automated infrastructure setup for data scientists and created a Python curriculum that trained over 100 employees. Maria also served as a Lead Python Engineer at Sberbank, enhancing a contact search algorithm, and as a Machine Learning Engineer at Kaspersky, where contributions included building an asynchronous ETL pipeline and improving a core language model's precision. Early career experience includes a role as a Python back-end developer at StarLine and as a Research Assistant at the Ioffe Institute. Maria holds a Bachelor's degree in Space Physics from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and studied at Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and Economics.