Alexander Abugaliev is a Senior Machine Learning Developer at СКБ Контур since December 2019, focusing on ASR and NLP research and pipeline improvements. Previously, Alexander served as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Replika and worked as a Data Scientist at Visiology, where responsibilities included implementing new BI tools and developing the BI personal assistant ViTalk. Early career experience includes a role as a Junior Researcher at Innopolis University, engaging in machine learning projects related to object detection and classification, as well as a Middle Java Developer at Likada and a Junior C++ Developer at ООО НАЦ "Недра," contributing to various software and module developments. Alexander holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Innopolis University and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Tomsk Polytechnic University.