Maria Murashova
Maria is a CTO and co-founder of Rokka, bringing over six years of data science expertise from Intel, EY, and Playtika.
A natural entrepreneur, she previously founded and scaled a successful chain of beer bars to ten locations in just one year.
As a CTO with extensive experience in both corporate and freelance environments, ranking 74th out of 57,000 clients on one of the biggest Freelance platform, she can share insights from successfully managing over 150 small projects as well as leading a product development team.
Today, she combines her technical leadership with a passion for education, running a practical training school for aspiring QA specialists and Data Analysts.
Her proven track record in both technology and business leadership, along with her hands-on teaching approach using real-world cases, makes her a compelling speaker and mentor in the tech community.
Session
The rise of Large Language Models has transformed data analysis, but these powerful tools aren't replacements for traditional statistical methods - they're complements. This talk explores practical strategies for building hybrid systems that leverage the strengths of both approaches. I'll demonstrate architectural patterns for effective integration, share performance comparisons, and present a real-world case study of a production sentiment analysis system that combines traditional ML for data preprocessing with LLMs for nuanced text understanding. Attendees will gain practical knowledge for enhancing their data pipelines with LLM capabilities while maintaining statistical rigor and computational efficiency.