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Blake Martin

@blakemartin

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Senior AI/ML engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and scalable MLOps.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building and scaling production Generative AI/ML systems with strong MLOps practices, cross-functional collaboration, and measurable business impact.

I am a Senior Python AI/ML Engineer with 10+ years delivering production-grade machine learning and Generative AI solutions end-to-end, specializing in LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, and vector search to drive measurable business impact.

I have led development and deployment of cloud-native, HIPAA- and high-throughput compliant ML microservices using strong MLOps/LLMOps practices, reducing deployment time and improving model reliability while collaborating cross-functionally to align AI with product and clinical requirements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Lead AI Engineer

Tempus

Jul 2024 - Oct 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Led development of an AI-powered clinical decision support platform processing millions of EHR records; improved clinical concept extraction precision by ~22% and reduced LLM hallucinations by ~35% via RAG and embeddings.

Python fastAPI RAG Embeddings Vector Search MLOps CI CD

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Plaid

Jan 2021 - Jun 2023 (2 years 5 months)

Led ML systems for transaction classification and risk analysis across millions of daily transactions; increased classification accuracy by ~20% and reduced p95 inference latency by ~30%.

Python fastAPI Anomaly Detection MLOps Monitoring Model Evaluation Scalability

Machine Learning Engineer

Guild Education

Sep 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Built AI-driven learning recommendation and NLP pipelines serving tens of thousands of learners, increasing course completion rates by ~15% and reducing manual retraining effort by ~40%.

Python Recommendations NLP MLOps A B Testing Data Engineering

AI Engineer

Moescape AI

Sep 2013 - May 2016 (2 years 8 months)

Developed generative AI features and RAG workflows for a creative content platform, improving relevance and output quality by ~25% and reducing per-request costs by ~20%.