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Jacob Stewart

@jacobstewart

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Hands-on engineering leader building scalable AI systems and cloud-native automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior/lead engineering role where I can build production-grade AI systems, scale cloud-native infrastructure, mentor teams, and drive measurable business impact.

I lead cross-functional AI and engineering teams to translate research into production systems, specializing in LLMs, RAG pipelines, multimodal models, and cloud-native microservices. I combine a full-stack background in React/Angular frontends with Python-based backends (Django, Flask, FastAPI) and robust MLOps to deliver measurable impact across industries.

My work includes architecting distributed training and serving pipelines, establishing MLOps and observability practices, and reducing AI compute costs through dynamic orchestration. I prioritize reproducibility, governance, and collaboration with academic and enterprise partners to accelerate R&D and drive production adoption of advanced AI solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Head of Engineering, AI R&D

Swarmauri

Jan 2023 - Aug 2025 (2 years 7 months)

Led architecture and engineering of large-scale AI systems, deploying RAG pipelines and distributed training to accelerate research throughput by 40% and reduce AI compute spend by 24%.

fastAPI Faiss Pinecone PyTorch TensorFlow Kubernetes AWS Sagemaker MLOps

Cloud Automation & AI Engineer

Cisco

Jun 2019 - Aug 2022 (3 years 2 months)

Engineered cloud automation and predictive AI systems for network optimization, improving operational response times by 33.3% and embedding ML pipelines into DevOps workflows.

Python Flask fastAPI Terraform Ansible Docker Kubernetes React TensorFlow scikit learn

Full Stack Engineer

Lion Oval

Jan 2014 - Feb 2018 (4 years 1 month)

Built production web applications and integrated AI components such as recommendation engines and predictive analytics, deployed via AWS with CI/CD and caching for scalability.

React AngularJS Django Flask AWS EC2 Redis Celery Jenkins GitHub Actions

Full Stack Engineer

The Five Star Institute

Feb 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 11 months)

Designed and developed responsive corporate websites and CMS solutions, improving engagement and performance through front-end optimization and CDN integration.