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Leon Carter

@leoncarter

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Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML systems, MLOps, and scalable Python backends.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building production ML systems with strong MLOps, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to mentor engineers and shape architecture.

I am a Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer with over 10 years building large-scale, cloud-native systems that power ML-enabled products. I specialize in Python backend engineering, distributed systems, and AWS infrastructure, delivering reliable inference services and event-driven architectures.

I have led design and implementation of ML inference services, feature pipelines, and decisioning platforms across security, insurance, finance, and logistics, and I champion MLOps practices including CI/CD, model versioning, monitoring, and rollback strategies.

I mentor engineers, drive architectural clarity, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to translate business problems into deployable, auditable ML solutions that balance model quality, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior AI / ML Engineer

Very Good Security

Apr 2021 - Jan 2026 (4 years 9 months)

Owned backend architecture for large-scale security platforms using ML for real-time risk decisions; built high-throughput Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and designed event-driven pipelines with Kafka, Redis, and Celery to ensure scalable, auditable decisioning.

Python fastAPI Kubernetes Kafka Redis Celery Terraform MLOps

Senior Software Engineer

Vouch Insurance

Jul 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 8 months)

Built ML-enabled underwriting and risk platforms embedding predictive models into decision flows; developed Python/Django and FastAPI services, data pipelines for experimentation and inference, and improved reliability via testing and CI/CD.

Python fastAPI AWS Data Pipelines CI CD Monitoring

Software Engineer

Bench Accounting

Aug 2015 - Jun 2018 (2 years 10 months)

Built financial processing platforms and background job pipelines using Python, Django, Celery, and PostgreSQL to improve data accuracy, traceability, and enable downstream analytics and ML use cases.

Python Django Celery PostgreSQL Batch Processing Data Quality & Security Data Governance

Software Engineer

ShipBob

Jul 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year)

Developed Python backend services and internal dashboards to support logistics and fulfillment workflows, improving operational visibility and system stability through testing and monitoring.