Alex Watson
@alexwatson
Founding AI/ML engineer and MLOps expert delivering production-grade, HIPAA-compliant healthcare AI.
What I'm looking for
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
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%.
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%.
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%.
Engineered full-stack and ML-enabled solutions, migrating systems to AWS to achieve 99.9% uptime and accelerating deployments by 15% while deploying production ML models via Azure ML and MLflow.
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.
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
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
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
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2015
Earned a Bachelor of Science with foundational training in computing and data-related disciplines.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
GitHub
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Gmail
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Material-UI
Databricks
Redis
Azure DevOps
Java 8
Angular Material
JavaScript
Java
Azure Machine Learning
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Kubeflow
Kafka
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
GraphQL
Milvus
Azure Security Center
Serverless
Azure Functions
SQL
Hugging Face
LangChain
Weaviate
Pinecone
ONNX Runtime
Dynamic
Increase
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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