Lena Shakurova

Lena Shakurova

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5.0
(3 reviews)
US$23.00
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ABOUT ME
Chatbot Developer & Conversation Designer
Chatbot Developer & Conversation Designer

Chatbot Developer & Consultant (GPT4, ChatGPT, Rasa, DialogFlow, VoiceFlow, LandBot)

Hi, my name is Lena, and I help businesses solve problems using chatbots. I have over 6 years of experience building chatbots using Rasa, DialogFlow and GPT-4, offering consultations on chatbot development and conversation design, and also teaching people to build chatbots themselves, giving mentoring session and workshops.

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What makes me different from other freelancers:

▣ I offer full-cycle chatbot development services, from a business idea to production.

▣ I am not just a full-stack developer. I have background in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence and I understand Machine Learning and the mechanisms behind how chatbots actually work.

▣ My first education is in Linguistics, which is very useful when it comes to designing dialogues and making them user friendly.

▣ I take business oriented approach and think about chatbots as a tool to solve a specific problem. I try to design chatbots with your business goals in mind and the problem you are trying to help your users solve.

▣ I believe that for any software project, including developing chatbots, it's very important to always keep users in mind. This means that I try to do user-research before the beginning of the project and validate my assumptions as soon as possible on real users.

▣ I value transparent and direct communication.

▣ I value your time and I value my time and I prefer to deliver results quickly rather than doing work for the sake of work.

▣ Based on the reviews, people think I'm a nice person to work with :)

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Here are some ways I can help you:

▣ Getting started with your chatbot project. I can share with you my knowledge and expertise in the area of Chatbot Development, help you come up with a project plan, give you an overview of available chatbot tools that would best suit your project and will help you reach your business goals.

▣ Full-cycle chatbot development. I offer full-cycle chatbot development services, from start to finish. For chatbot development I use GPT-4, Rasa, DialogFlow, ManyChat, Landbot and VoiceFlow. For backend I use Python. For frontend I use JavaScript (TypeScript).

▣ Conversation design. I can both help you create conversation flows for your chatbot from scratch and review your existing conversation design and give you suggestions for improvement.

▣ Reviewing your existing chatbot. Ican give up tips both on how to improve your implementation (why your Machine Learning doesn't deliver results) as well as your conversation design (why users don't enjoy talking with your chatbot).

▣ Education. If you'd like to become a better chatbot developer yourself or are looking for a mentor to improve your current skills, I can help you. ▣ Chatbot widget. If you just looking a chatbot widget for the website, I can share with you my code so that you don't have to build it from scratch.

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Tech Stack:

▣ Programming Languages: Python

▣ Chatbots: DialogFlow, Rasa, ManyChat, GPT3

▣ Database: MYSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, BigQuery

▣ Machine Learning: Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow

▣ NLP: NLTK, Gensim, SpaCy, FastText, word2vec, MUSE

▣ Crawling: Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, LXML

▣ Web: Flask, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

▣ Generative AI: ChatGPT, GPT-3.5, GPT-4 ==== Some of my chatbot development projects:

▣ Business Assistant Chatbot (GPT3, DialogFlow)

▣ Property Management Chatbot (Rasa)

▣ Language Leaning Chatbot (Rasa)

▣ Financial Assistant Chatbot (DialogFlow)

▣ Health Coach Chatbot (DialogFlow)

▣ Chatbot-Recruiter (ManyChat)

▣ Voice Auto Attendant Chatbot (DialogFlow)

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If this all sounds interesting, feel free to get in touch and we can schedule a free discovery call!

Dutch, German, Russian, English
Amsterdam (+01:00)
Joined June 2019
EXPERTISE
5 years experience
5 years experience | 2 endorsements
I am an experienced NLP specialist with 3+ years of working in the industry, working on developing social media monitoring system, buildi...
I am an experienced NLP specialist with 3+ years of working in the industry, working on developing social media monitoring system, building chatbots and workong on cross-lingual transfer learning for sequence labelling taske. I have experience doing various NLP tasks, including text classification, NER, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, document clustering and others
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4 years experience | 2 endorsements
4 years experience | 2 endorsements
I am an experienced Chatbot Developer working on building chatbots with DialogFlow and Rasa for the last two and a half years. Some of my...
I am an experienced Chatbot Developer working on building chatbots with DialogFlow and Rasa for the last two and a half years. Some of my previous projects include personalised language learning tutor, customer support chatbot, HR chatbot, voice auto attendant, finance chatbot and resume bot. In my work, I focus not only on building a solid natural language understanding but also on improving the user experience and making that chatbot experience personalised.
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4 years experience | 2 endorsements
6 years experience

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(3 reviews)
Connor Steed
Connor Steed
July 2020
Elena was very helpful, understood our specific use case, and gave insightful feedback and direction. I would recommend
Evgeny Pyatopal
Evgeny Pyatopal
May 2020
Very good specialist!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
LexicalTextSimplification
Lexical Text Simplification for Cognitive Computational Modeling of Language and Web Interaction course
Python
2
0
ngrams
This project aims to help researches in Lexical Typology to analyse distribution of adjectives that are considered to have close meaning
JavaScript
1
0
EMPLOYMENTS
NLP Engineer & Chatbot Developer
Self-employed
2018-04-01-Present
Working on long-term projects as an NLP specialist and Chatbot Developer. - Research on intent detection and named entity recognition app...
Working on long-term projects as an NLP specialist and Chatbot Developer. - Research on intent detection and named entity recognition approaches for an HR chatbot (Python, LUIS, padatious) - Developed a prototype of a Dutch-speaking customer support chatbot (DialogFlow and Python) - Developed an English-speaking automated voice attendant chatbot (DialogFlow) - Worked in a team building financial chatbot assistant (DialogFlow) - Worked on the annotation project for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis task (Prodigy) - Developed a personalised language tutor chatbot (Rasa)
Python
Machine learning
Deep Learning
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Python
Machine learning
Deep Learning
Chatbot
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NLP Research Engineer
Textkernel
2018-11-01-2019-07-01
Working full-time and doing research and development on multilingual CV parsing for low-resource languages. - Developed a universal Slav...
Working full-time and doing research and development on multilingual CV parsing for low-resource languages. - Developed a universal Slavic CV parsing pipeline for 5 languages, using transfer learning and cross-lingual embeddings - Built a cross-lingual model that performs well in zero-shot CV parsing scenario - Developed guidelines and best practices for learning cross-lingual embeddings and doing transfer learning for our task of CV parsing - Created new intrinsic metrics for evaluating the quality of cross-lingual word embeddings - Improved error analysis workflow - Presented at two conferences and published a paper
Python
Bash
GitHub
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Python
Bash
GitHub
NLP
Deep Learning
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NLP Engineer
NCEM
2016-08-01-2017-08-01
Core member of AI development team working full-time on building a social media monitoring system. - Build several domain-specific text c...
Core member of AI development team working full-time on building a social media monitoring system. - Build several domain-specific text classifiers - Developed an annotation work flow and guidelines - Developed news content-based clusterisation system - Improved Named Entity Recognition - Worked on key word extraction
Python
Machine learning
Web Scraping
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Python
Machine learning
Web Scraping
Nltk
NLP
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PROJECTS
Business Assistant ChatbotView Project
2023
Business Asistant Chatbot (built with GPT3 and DialogFlow)
Business Asistant Chatbot (built with GPT3 and DialogFlow)
Python
Dialogflow
Python
Dialogflow
ChatbotlyView Project
2023
No code platform for creating GPT-powered knowledge base chatbots
No code platform for creating GPT-powered knowledge base chatbots
Python
Python