Maria Sukhareva

Co-Founder

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany14 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of AI Realist consultancy
  • Expert in applied AI and language modeling
  • Led machine translation initiatives at BMW Group
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven solutions and language processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Training

Other Skills

WritingSocial Media Content CreationWorkshopsLarge Language Models (LLM)EducationAzureElasticsearchAmazon Web Services (AWS)Deep LearningLinuxJavaMachine TranslationPythonJavaScriptUnix

About

I’m a researcher at heart, focused on applied AI. I’ve been working on language modelling since before it was cool. Check out my substack newsletter msukhareva.substack.com Disclaimer: all views posted on this account are solely my own and do not represent my employer

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Fortune 500 / dax 40 manufacturing conglomerate

3 roles

Lead AI Strategist

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Large Language Models (LLM)

Principal Key Expert in Artificial Intelligence

Promoted

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Large Language Models (LLM)AzureArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Senior Data Scientist

Nov 2020Jan 2026 · 5 yrs 2 mos

ElasticsearchLarge Language Models (LLM)AzureArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Ai realist

Founder | Author | Trainer

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany · Remote

  • AI Realist is a boutique consultancy with a single mission: bringing tangible value to business through honest, hype-free AI adoption.
  • It offers specialized Training, Due Diligence, and Strategic Advisory.
  • Independent insights from a top expert, with no vendor bias. My approach is strictly research and data-based. I ensure that every recommendation is defensible, grounded in the latest peer-reviewed science and real industrial data.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)WritingSocial Media Content CreationTrainingWorkshopsLarge Language Models (LLM)+1

Bmw group

Data Scientist / NLP Specialist

May 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Munich Area, Germany

  • I was leading a machine translation initiative. On one side, I am solving such problems as domain adaptation, low resource languages, terminology integration etc using state-of-the-art methods and tools. On the other side, I am creating a scalable and robust machine translation service on the basis of AWS Cloud.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Large Language Models (LLM)Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Tu darmstadt

Doctoral Researcher

Jan 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Darmstadt Area, Germany

  • Crowdsourcing of linguistic annotations, implementation of UIMA NLP Pipelines, cluster computing with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark
Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Linux

Goethe-universität frankfurt a. main

Doctoral Researcher

Jan 2011Sep 2017 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

  • NLP Pipelines of low resource languages, machine translation, word alignment, text normalisation
Large Language Models (LLM)Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Linux

Universität des saarlandes

Studentische Hilfskraft

Nov 2008Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Deutschland

  • I worked on the syntactic annotations of WSJ corpus with HPSG
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Linux

Education

Universität des Saarlandes

Master of Science - MS — Language Science and Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2011

Pomor State University

Diploma — Linguistics

Jan 2003Jan 2008

Goethe University Frankfurt

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computational linguistics

Jan 2013Present

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