Ivan Potapov is a Research Engineer at Zalando, where he specializes in search. His work sits at the intersection of software engineering and applied machine learning, combining large-scale systems with modern information retrieval.

Ivan is also an active educator. He has taught workshops on data engineering, AI agents, and LLM alignment, helping practitioners build the skills needed to work with machine learning systems in production. He shares further notes and experiments on his blog at blog.ivan.digital.