
Andranik Khachatryan
Verified Expert in Engineering
AI Engineer and Developer
Yerevan, Armenia
Toptal member since June 3, 2019
Ando is a lead AI engineer specializing in autonomous agents and production GenAI systems, with a PhD in Computer Science. He designs agentic workflows with advanced tool use, retrieval, and evaluation to reliably automate complex analysis and decision tasks. His work spans modern LLM stacks (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), rigorous LLM evaluation, and scalable RAG pipelines.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 10 years
- Machine Learning - 10 years
- Large Language Models (LLMs) - 4 years
- Amazon SageMaker - 3 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
- AI Agents - 2 years
- OpenAI API - 2 years
- Google AI Platform - 1 year
Preferred Environment
PyTorch, Python, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is creating an image search engine that finds the original from millions of candidates, even if the query image is heavily modified.
Work Experience
Machine Learning Lead
Envoy Media Group
- Created an AI agent that helps business users diagnose complex performance issues. This includes understanding the problem, issuing multiple queries, and fetching and analyzing data.
- Developed an AI agent that takes natural-language requests from the user, maps them into queries in proprietary language for the in-house ROLAP system, and analyzes the results.
- Contributed to the LLM pipeline, extracting insights from 1,150+ sales calls. Statistical analysis revealed a highly unexpected finding: one company signs 30% more customers during calls but retains 40% fewer—a major blind spot.
- Developed a framework for streamlined model creation and lifecycle management—including monitoring and visualization—with tens to hundreds of ML models running in production.
- Created an in-house framework that does auto-ML for data and tasks specific to Envoy Media Group. We used the AWS stack and could train and deploy a new model within an hour without writing code.
- Contributed to feature our framework as a case study for Partner Success on AWS (aws.amazon.com/partners/success/envoy-media-toptal/).
Machine Learning Engineer and Consultant
Things Inc.
- Trained our own diffusion models using various approaches. These models were done on Google Colab notebooks using weaker GPUs and smaller datasets, but we managed to get things working and were ready for large-scale experiments.
- Investigated a large number of papers and codebases related to Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM).
- Did research on competitors, such as Midjourney, to understand where the industry stands at the moment.
Head of Machine Learning
Aisle3
- Developed the product matching engine prototype, which matched the same product from different sellers using their images and description. Used OpenCV and ConvNet-generated image features, as well as vector index storage and search.
- Oversaw the long-term ML strategy for the company, deciding which directions are the most promising going into the future. Worked closely with other teams on the overall system architecture on AWS.
- Supervised a small remote team tasked with bringing the product matching engine into production. By the time I left the company, we had a product matching API and an internally-developed labeling tool using the API.
Amazon SageMaker Consultant
Visably LLC (via TopTal)
- Provided consulting to the client to migrate their on-premise ML solution into Amazon SageMaker.
Machine Learning Engineer (Remote)
Pirate Labs
- Created a recommender system delivering marketing emails for a company with multiple, diverse clients. Each client is a shop selling different products, and the shops are very different from one another. We created a single system that works for all.
- Designed, implemented, and tested the recommender system. It was highly configurable and flexible, enabling it to effectively adapt to unique settings of each shop.
- Oversaw the testing and helped with launching the system into production.
Co-founder, CEO
NVision LLC
- Created a cloud-based infrastructure for crawling, indexing, and supporting an image database of tens of millions of images.
- Retrieved images from a database of tens of millions of images. Query images could be very heavily altered versions of the original.
- Enabled digital watermarking of images (prototype).
Developer of Recommender System (Freelance)
Triskk.com
- Helped prototype a recommender system.
- Created, tested, and tuned a prototype with Python.
- Implemented the system within AWS infrastructure and made it production-ready.
Product Manager
Armsoft
- Served as the product manager for an in-house developed ETL.
- Participated in product creation from the start: design, implementation, testing.
- Oversaw client deployments and service monitoring.
Head of Research and Education Center
Armsoft
- Created a highly demanded educational program with more than 10 applicants for one position.
- Co-developed the overall strategy for the education center, including creating the curriculum, designing the admission process, and recruiting the lecturers. Managed 1-2 assistants who took care of day-to-day operations.
- Managed entrance exams (up to three rounds) with more than 300 applicants and more than 20 lecturers/TAs/colleagues being involved in different rounds.
- Researched and published in IEEE TKDE, currently ranked #1 by Google Scholar in the category "Databases and Information Systems."
Experience
Business Intelligence Agent
The system uses Google ADK with Gemini, backed by a knowledge base of 1,600+ metrics and investigation strategies. I implemented streaming responses via FastAPI, an async job system with PostgreSQL for long-running investigations, and parallel query execution for testing multiple hypotheses concurrently. Prompt content and sample investigations are version-controlled, with documented ground-truth cases for concurrently testing regression hypotheses. This reduces manual investigation time from hours to minutes.
Natural Language Query Agent for Business Analytics
I designed a 6-step LLM pipeline with validation at each stage: intent parsing, column discovery from curated and full catalogs, candidate reduction, query generation, and result analysis. I also implemented ground-truth verification that compares generated queries against known-good answers, tracking per-step success rates and execution timing. Features an extensible LLM provider abstraction with per-step model selection, conditional pipeline execution that skips unnecessary steps, and Redis pub/sub for real-time progress tracking.
Machine Learning Orchestration Platform
I implemented MLflow integration for experiment tracking with per-iteration metrics logged from inside SageMaker containers. Features non-blocking job orchestration with client-driven status polling, temporal train/test splitting to prevent data leakage, soft-delete patterns for audit trails, and production version safety constraints. The solution is built using FastAPI, PostgreSQL with asynchronous SQLAlchemy, and Amazon SageMaker.
Digital Watermarking with Deep Learning
https://github.com/ando-khachatryan/HiDDeNVery Large Image Database with Advanced Search Functionality
Education
PhD in Computer Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Karlsruhe, Germany
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Yerevan State University - Yerevan, Armenia
Certifications
AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sequence Models
Coursera
Deep Learning Specialization
Coursera
Convolutional Neural Networks
Coursera
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Coursera
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
Coursera
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
Coursera
Machine Learning
Coursera
Graph Analytics for Big Data
Coursera
Big Data Modeling and Management Systems
Coursera
Machine Learning With Big Data
Coursera
Big Data Integration and Processing
Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PyTorch, NumPy, TensorFlow, SciPy, XGBoost, Scikit-learn, OpenAI API, Pandas, OpenCV, SQLAlchemy
Tools
Amazon SageMaker, ChatGPT, Google AI Platform, PyCharm, Jupyter, TFS, AWS Fargate, Amazon Transcribe, AWS Step Functions, Claude
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jupyter Notebook, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker
Languages
Python, C#, SQL, C++, R
Frameworks
Agentic Frameworks, .NET
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Google Cloud, Redis, PostgreSQL
Other
Game Theory, Deep Learning, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Neural Networks, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Computer Vision, Data Science, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, Prompt Engineering, Technical Leadership, Architecture, Economics, Recommendation Systems, Factorization Machines, Clustering, Data Analysis, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Anthropic, AI Agents, ChatGPT API, OpenAI, Computer Science, FAISS, FastAPI, Gradient Boosted Trees, Microsoft Azure, Diffusion Models, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), OpenAI GPT-4 API, Gemini, Gemini API, Amazon Bedrock, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), OpenAI SDK, Ad Campaigns, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, MLflow
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