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Alex Watson

@alexwatson

Founding AI/ML engineer and MLOps expert delivering production-grade, HIPAA-compliant healthcare AI.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles where I can architect scalable, compliant ML systems, lead MLOps practices, mentor teams, and drive measurable healthcare or enterprise impact.

I am a Founding AI/ML Architect and MLOps engineer with 9+ years building production-grade, HIPAA-compliant healthcare and enterprise AI systems for virtual care, oncology, pharma, and large enterprises. I have led end-to-end ML platforms that delivered measurable impact—30–40% gains in monitoring/triage accuracy, 70% automation of manual workflows, 90% fewer deployment errors, and 20–25% cost reductions—while mentoring cross-functional teams and junior engineers.

My work spans model development (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face), vector search and RAG systems, scalable deployments on Kubernetes and serverless platforms, and secure cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I prioritize reliable, compliant solutions that scale in production, advocate best practices in MLOps, and consistently ship high-impact AI features that improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Applied AI/ML Engineer

Stealth Startup

Aug 2023 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Architected end-to-end ML pipelines on AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, improving high-risk event detection accuracy by 15% and efficiency by 25% while mentoring engineers and reducing deployment errors by 90%.

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Principal Software Engineer

SAGA Diagnostics

Dec 2023 - Jun 2024 (6 months)

Developed PyTorch and Scikit-learn models with GenAI enhancements, improving pharmaceutical returns performance by 20% and automating 70% of manual predictive modeling workflows, reducing costs by 20%.

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Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year)

Built full-stack systems and migrated legacy services to AWS, improving uptime to 99.9% and cutting infrastructure costs by 20% while integrating ML features to reduce model bias by 25%.

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Software Developer

Inivata Limited

Nov 2018 - Sep 2019 (10 months)

Delivered full-stack Django/Flask applications and TensorFlow prototypes, improving client delivery speed by 25% and achieving 90% accuracy on GenAI prototypes while maintaining 99.9% uptime.

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DevOps Full Stack Engineer

BBI

Feb 2013 - Nov 2018 (5 years 9 months)

Established CI/CD pipelines and container workflows, reducing release cycle time by 40% and improving container management by 25% while implementing real-time APIs with Kafka to cut message latency by 25%.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Michigan - School of Information logoUI

University of Michigan - School of Information

PhD in Information, Information

2024 -

Enrolled in a PhD program in Information focusing on applied AI/ML research and healthcare applications.

University of Michigan - School of Information logoUI

University of Michigan - School of Information

Master of Applied Data Science, Applied Data Science

2016 - 2019

Completed a Master of Applied Data Science with coursework and projects in machine learning, data engineering, and applied AI.

East Carolina University logoEU

East Carolina University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2011 - 2015

Earned a Bachelor of Science with foundational training in computing and data-related disciplines.

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