Vlad Sokolovskii
AI engineer —building productswith AI
Production AI systems, software products, and notes from hands-on engineering work.
Engineer and product builder
Five years in AI development, from training custom models to shipping LLM features in production. I build software with AI agents and write about the engineering practices that hold up beyond the demo.
From practice
Projects
AI Engineering Learning & Mentorship Ecosystem
Learning materials, an interview library, AI-assisted reviews, MCP, and Orbyte — alongside the CRM, intake bots, and analytics behind my AI engineering mentorship.
Parrot Semantic Search
Semantic search for Parrot's LegalTech product: meaning-based discovery across transcripts, case materials, and exhibit images.
Selected writing
Posts and articles
BERT on steroids, or a new chapter in AI engineering
Why JEV makes classification with prompt-defined categories fast, cheap, and surprisingly flexible compared with BERT and generative models.
Open-weight models and the future of AI infrastructure
Why open-weight models will capture a large part of the enterprise AI market, and which infrastructure layer businesses will actually pay for.
Normalizing high ambition
How a strong environment turns seemingly unreachable career paths into ordinary options and helps you choose between them deliberately.
AI digest
Weekly newsletter
New articles, tools, and thoughts on where AI development is going. Only things I have tested myself.