James O'rourke

I am a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer with 6+ years building end-to-end production machine learning systems across on-device AI, NLP, ASR, and intelligent document processing. I deliver measurable improvements in model quality, latency, and cost through pragmatic MLOps and scalable backend services.

At Hyperscience I architected and shipped document understanding pipelines combining OCR, layout signals, and modern NLP models, introduced LLM-assisted workflows (RAG with guardrails), and built scalable inference services on Kubernetes with robust monitoring.

Previously at Corti I productionized healthcare-focused NLP/ASR components and MLOps workflows, designed training and evaluation pipelines, and led efforts to improve model quality through error analysis and targeted data curation. At Sentiance I developed privacy-aware sensor feature engineering and trained models for on-device motion insights.

I am collaborative and stakeholder-driven, mentor ML and backend engineers, and focus on reliable, observable, and cost-effective ML systems that align with product outcomes and compliance needs.