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Matthew Schmidt

@matthewschmidt

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Senior AI/ML engineer who builds scalable, production-grade ML platforms and LLM-powered systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering role building production ML/LLM systems with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, automation, and team mentorship.

I am a Senior AI/ML Engineer with 15+ years designing and scaling cloud-native distributed systems and production-grade ML platforms for high-traffic environments.

I architect and deploy LLM-powered applications, RAG and vector-search integrations, and CI/CD-driven model training and inference pipelines, prioritizing secure, observable, SLO-driven production systems.

I am hands-on across the ML lifecycle—from data ingestion and feature engineering to model evaluation and inference optimization—and have delivered measurable improvements in throughput, latency, reliability, and automation.

I am a collaborative leader who mentors engineers, partners with product teams, and translates complex business problems into scalable AI solutions that operate reliably in production.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Camunda

Jul 2023 - Feb 2026 (2 years 7 months)

Architected and delivered AI-enabled workflow orchestration and scalable model inference backends, increasing sustained throughput by 44% and cutting p95 latency by 31% while reducing incident frequency by 36%.

fastAPI Kubernetes AWS Observability CI CD Distributed Systems

Software Engineer

MarqVision

Feb 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 7 months)

Developed backend services and optimized training and inference pipelines for an AI-powered brand protection platform, improving throughput by 37% and reducing p95 latency by 28% while cutting manual review effort by 46%.

Backend Development Model Evaluation Monitoring APIs Automation Performance Optimization

Full-Stack Developer

Iflexion

Nov 2018 - Feb 2021 (2 years 3 months)

Designed scalable backend architectures and API-driven ingestion/feature pipelines, improving data availability SLA from 92% to 99% and reducing infrastructure cost by 23%.

API Design Data Pipelines PostgreSQL Performance Tuning CI CD Scalability Backend Infrastructure Analytics

Full-Stack Developer

Instacart

Feb 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 10 months)

Built backend systems for personalization and recommendation features, reducing error rate by 22%, cutting end-to-end latency by 26%, and improving availability to 99.95%.

Personalization Caching API Development Distributed Systems Reliability Performance Optimization

Backend Developer

Instacart

Nov 2012 - Feb 2015 (2 years 3 months)

Developed and optimized high-throughput backend services and RESTful APIs, reducing p95 query time by 41% and increasing capacity by 33%.

REST APIs Database Optimization High Throughput Systems Performance Tuning Scalability

Backend Developer

Ticomix

Jul 2010 - Oct 2012 (2 years 3 months)

Developed backend components and modernized legacy systems, reducing onboarding time by 30% and improving operational efficiency to cut cycle time by 18%.

Backend Development Documentation