Purchase Propensity
Engineered customer targeting at global scale, using tree-based ML to improve purchase propensity prediction while dramatically reducing operating cost and runtime.
Vertex AI · Kubeflow Pipelines · Dataflow
Michael Markin
Data Scientist·AI Engineer
I like building things with AI. Sometimes that means large-scale ML, sometimes the latest LLM tooling, and usually figuring out how to make it all work in production.
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AI Shopping Assistant
Launched a conversational shopping experience that helps customers discover products, get answers, and move closer to purchase through generative AI.
LLM Tool Calling · Flask · Cloud Run
Semantic Search
Developed multilingual semantic search that catches the questions traditional search misses and turns more customer queries into useful answers.
Sentence-BERT Embeddings · Pinecone Vector Search
2022 — NOW
IKEA (Group Digital)
Data Scientist
Building production ML and GenAI systems across customer experiences, search, and store operations.
2020 — 2022
NewLane Finance
NLP Data Scientist
Applied NLP and machine learning to unstructured sales conversations, lead prioritization, and sales workflows.
2017 — 2022
Drexel University
B.S. in Finance and Business Analytics
Minor in Computer Science · Philadelphia, PA
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- Google Cloud — Associate Cloud EngineerView credential