Nik Spirin is a director for GenAI/LLMOps at NVIDIA. He leads the development of tools and workflows to enable end-to-end GenAI/LLM lifecycles, including model training, evaluation, and optimization, among others. He has 15+ years of experience working on AI/ML as a researcher, engineer, product manager, and founder. He holds a CS PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.