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Ahmad Hayes

@ahmadhayes1

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I am a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and production-ready AI systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building production-grade Generative AI and LLM systems with cloud-native MLOps, collaborative engineering teams, and opportunities to optimize model performance and scale inference.

I am a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and AI/ML architect with over a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade AI solutions focused on Generative AI, large language models, and NLP.

I have designed and deployed transformer-based systems (BERT, RoBERTa, GPT, T5) and built Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines integrated with vector databases such as FAISS and Pinecone. I’ve developed intelligent document understanding, OCR, and entity-extraction systems and optimized inference using Kineto trace, CUDA/Triton kernels, and operator-level profiling.

I lead MLOps and experimentation workflows—implementing MLflow and Weights & Biases for tracking, CI/CD for model packaging, containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA/PEFT). I’ve built FastAPI/TorchServe/Triton-backed microservices and production monitoring for latency and model quality.

I look to contribute to teams building high-impact GenAI products where I can drive architecture, performance optimization, and reliable, scalable deployment of LLM-powered applications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Current

Klarity Labs

Jan 2021 - Present (4 years 7 months)

Designed and deployed end-to-end Generative AI systems using transformer LLMs for enterprise NLP use cases and built RAG pipelines with FAISS and Pinecone for real-time contextual search. Productionized ML APIs with FastAPI, Docker, and Kubernetes and profiled/optimized inference using Kineto trace and CUDA/Triton kernels.

Generative AI Transformers RAG Faiss Pinecone fastAPI Docker Kubernetes Kineto CUDA

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

CognitiveScale

Jul 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 5 months)

Led design and development of multilingual NLP systems for sentiment analysis, text classification, and information extraction, integrating BERT and XLNet to improve semantic understanding. Built ETL and model orchestration pipelines with Apache Airflow and Docker and deployed models via Flask and TensorFlow Serving.

BERT XLNet Flask Apache Airflow Docker Transfer Learning

Machine Learning Engineer

Mavericks United

Aug 2015 - Jun 2019 (3 years 10 months)

Developed multilingual NLP systems and information extraction pipelines using modern deep learning models and integrated pre-trained models like BERT to improve application accuracy. Implemented automated ETL workflows and model orchestration with Apache Airflow and Docker and deployed real-time predictions via Flask and TensorFlow Serving.