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Blake Martin

@blakemartin1

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Senior AI/ML engineer specializing in generative AI, LLMs, and production-grade MLOps.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior AI/ML roles building production LLM and MLOps platforms at companies valuing scalability, observability, and cross-functional collaboration; prefer cloud-native environments and impact on product outcomes.

I am a Senior Python AI/ML Engineer with over 10 years building and deploying production-grade machine learning systems and 6+ years focused on Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG. I have driven high-impact AI platforms across healthcare, fintech, and edtech, delivering measurable business value through scalable, observable ML and LLM systems.

I design and deploy Hugging Face transformer pipelines, embeddings and vector-search RAG solutions, and LLM-powered microservices on cloud-native infrastructure. I specialize in MLOps/LLMOps—CI/CD, model versioning, monitoring, and automated retraining—to ensure reliable, low-latency production systems that reduce deployment time and model degradation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Lead AI Engineer

Tempus

Oct 2023 - Oct 2025 (2 years)

Led development of LLM-powered clinical decision support systems processing millions of EHR records and notes, improving clinical concept accuracy ~22% and reducing hallucinations ~35% via RAG and embeddings.

Python Hugging Face RAG Embeddings fastAPI MLOps AWS Vector Databases

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Plaid

Jan 2021 - Jun 2023 (2 years 5 months)

Built ML-driven transaction classification and financial risk models for millions of daily transactions, improving accuracy ~20% and reducing p95 API latency ~30% with optimized FastAPI inference services.

Python Pyspark fastAPI MLOps Monitoring AWS Cost Optimization

Machine Learning Engineer

Guild Education

Sep 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Built AI-driven learning recommendation systems that increased course completion rates ~15% and delivered real-time recommendation APIs with automated retraining workflows reducing manual maintenance ~40%.

Python NLP Recommendation Systems Retraining Pipelines A B Testing Data Pipelines

AI Engineer

Moescape AI

Sep 2013 - May 2016 (2 years 8 months)

Developed ML and NLP systems for a creative content platform, improving engagement ~25% via recommendation and similarity engines and deploying real-time inference services with Elasticsearch integration.

Python NLP Flask Elasticsearch Feature Extraction Performance Optimization