Julian Thomas
@julianthomas1
Senior MLOps & AI/ML engineer building scalable, production-ready AI systems.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior MLOps and AI/ML engineer with 9+ years building scalable, AI-driven web applications and production machine learning systems. I specialize in accelerating model deployment and operationalizing LLMs using modern cloud and MLOps tooling.
I've delivered measurable impact by reducing deployment times, improving inference latency, and increasing data processing capacity across enterprise environments. My work spans end-to-end pipelines, from feature engineering and distributed data processing to model serving and observability.
Technically, I build containerized microservices and APIs with Python, Node.js, Flask, and FastAPI, and I deploy and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD automation. I pair these capabilities with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Spark, and Kafka to support real-time and large-scale ML workloads.
I take pride in designing resilient, monitored systems that maintain high availability and scale—delivering production LLM services, integrated frontends with React/Next.js, and robust MLOps practices that help teams ship AI features faster and reliably.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
AI & React Developer
Ntiva
Dec 2024 - Present (1 year)
Engineered and deployed GPT-4 and Azure OpenAI services to accelerate LLM application deployment by 40%, designed REST/GraphQL APIs and containerized microservices to improve scalability and frontend integration.
Senior Software Engineer
Insight Global
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 9 months)
Deployed production LLM services (GPT-4, BERT) and architected Kubernetes-based microservices, reducing inference latency by 20% and improving client content velocity by 35%.
Machine Learning Engineer
Codoxo
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023 (4 years)
Implemented Kafka/RabbitMQ streaming for near-real-time fraud detection at scale, deployed secure low-latency Python inference APIs, and built Spark-based pipelines to process millions of healthcare claims daily.
Software Developer
Plego Technologies
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019 (3 years 11 months)
Managed multi-cloud containerized infrastructure and developed AI/ML applications and NLP models served via REST APIs, improving engagement and search performance by up to 25%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Siena College
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in data structures, databases, operating systems, networks, software engineering, and machine learning; graduated May 2014.
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