Stepan Skrylnikov is a Researcher at STC (speechpro.com), a position held since 2023. Stepan earned a Master's degree from ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg) in 2023, following the completion of their undergraduate studies at IIYAMT, Pyatigorsk State University in 2021. His professional background is rooted in academic and industrial research, with a career trajectory focused on advanced computational linguistics. Current and previous research interests include natural language processing and text embeddings, in which he have specialized since 2019, as well as semantic search and the development of encoder models since 2021.