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Charles Neely

@charlesneely

Staff AI Engineer at NVIDIA who built agentic support workflows reaching 87% task success in controlled testing.

United States
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At NVIDIA, I defined and implemented a production AI platform for technical-support workflows, combining retrieval, tool calling, structured outputs, and human escalation. In controlled testing, its agent workflow reached 87% successful multi-step task completion.

I designed a hybrid RAG pipeline that improved Recall@5 from 74% to 89%, and built evaluation harnesses for groundedness, task success, latency, and model cost. I also fine-tuned compact instruction models with LoRA adapters, reducing median inference cost by approximately 31% without materially changing held-out task accuracy.

At Meta, I owned ranking model initiatives for content-discovery products. My work included PyTorch ranking models and feature pipelines that improved offline NDCG@10 by approximately 8%, as well as serving safeguards supporting 99.95% service availability.

Earlier, I developed fraud-risk models and production scoring services at Capital One, worked on clinical-operations data and NLP at Pfizer, and built backend integrations and SQL analytics at Verizon. Across these roles, I’ve worked on model evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and responsible operation in regulated and high-volume environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

NVIDIA logoNV
Current

Staff AI Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Defined and implemented a production AI platform for technical-support workflows, combining Python services, Azure OpenAI, retrieval, tool calling, and human escalation. Designed a hybrid RAG pipeline and built a stateful agent workflow, improving task completion to 87% and reducing P95 latency from 2.8s to 1.6s.

Pfizer logoPF

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 4 months)

Prepared clinical-operations datasets with SQL transformations and validation rules for predictive modeling. Prototyped NLP classification and entity-extraction approaches for operational notes, and automated quality checks and reporting workflows.

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Software Engineer

May 2014 - Apr 2015 (11 months)

Developed backend integrations and SQL-based analytics for network-capacity reporting, converting operational data into repeatable metrics. Added validation checks, diagnostic logging, and automated report generation to improve data visibility.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Texas at Austin logoUA

University of Texas at Austin

Master's Degree, Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, completed in May 2014.

University of Houston logoUH

University of Houston

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Houston, completed in May 2012.

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