Maria Khalusova

Maria Khalusova is a technology professional with a diverse background in software development and developer advocacy. She is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Iterative.ai, where she focuses on promoting best practices from traditional software development, such as version control and continuous integration.1

Prior to her current role, Maria held the position of Developer Advocate at JetBrains, where she specialized in data science, data engineering, and machine learning.36 Her work at JetBrains involved making machine learning more accessible on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) using Kotlin.6

Maria's career has included various roles such as Developer Advocate, Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, and Technical Writer. She has a keen interest in emerging technologies, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Recent Activities

Maria has been actively sharing her knowledge and experiences in the tech community:

• In August 2024, she shared a nostalgic post about her first tech blog post, which focused on the code coverage feature in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0.2
• In September 2024, she wrote a blog post about embedding models for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and shared a notebook on comparing embedding models.4

Current Focus

As of the most recent information available, Maria is working at Unstructured.IO and describes herself as an "LLM whisperer" and "RAG tinkerer".5 This suggests her current work involves large language models and retrieval-augmented generation techniques.

Maria Khalusova continues to be an active voice in the developer community, sharing insights and knowledge about various aspects of software development and machine learning technologies.