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Rinat Tainov

Staff AI Engineer at eBay, Amsterdam.

15+ years building data-intensive applications. Streaming, batch, data processing. The output feeds model training and serving, dashboards and reporting, A/B testing and analytics.

I built visual search. Per-item compute was expensive, so even partitions gave hot clusters. It had about 1.5 million uses a week.

When I took over data science and data engineering, about a third of production models could not be recreated. We put CI/CD on ML pipelines.

I design practical, clean solutions and build teams around them. Currently focused on agentic systems, AI observability and evaluations.