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Ivan Savkov

I write software, train models and solder hardware. Software engineering student at HSE University, Moscow.

About

I like working where code meets the physical world: microcontroller firmware, smart home, drones and 3D printing. On the ML side, I run and fine-tune language models on my own hardware.

Software Engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University. Gold certificate from Yandex Lyceum. Ran a small 3D printing business for a while.

Projects

MHI AC controller esphome · c++

A Wemos D1 Mini on the CNS/SPI bus of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries air conditioner, integrated with Home Assistant. Tracked down watchdog resets caused by Wi-Fi activity clashing with the SPI handler.

Local LLMs mlx · llama.cpp · unsloth

Inference and fine-tuning on my own hardware: MLX on Mac, llama.cpp with CUDA on Windows. Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B to reply in my own writing style.

Home server home assistant · klipper

An old laptop running Linux, hosting Home Assistant (Zigbee, Matter, ESPHome, HomeKit) and Klipper with Moonraker for my 3D printer.

3D printing & drones hardware

An Ender 3 S1 Plus on Klipper, custom print jobs, drone builds and assorted ESP-based electronics.

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