Ray S
@rays
Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, agentic AI, and production MLOps end-to-end.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 6 years architecting and deploying end-to-end ML systems in production. My deep expertise spans Python ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) and production-ready services (FastAPI), with a strong focus on LLMs, RAG, and fine-tuning.
I build LLM products that behave well in the real world: RAG systems with hybrid retrieval, reranking, and source attribution; multi-agent workflows using LangGraph and CrewAI with tool calling, memory, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints; and evaluation/guardrail layers for non-deterministic systems. I’ve raised answer-quality scores by 28% while flagging drift before it reaches users, and I’m comfortable owning the path from research notebook to multi-region production endpoint.
Across AWS and GCP, I lead full MLOps lifecycle work—deployment pipelines on SageMaker/Bedrock and Vertex AI, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana and Evidently AI, and drift detection that protects accuracy over time. I’ve also mentored 4 ML engineers and introduced MLOps standards (DVC, MLflow, Kubeflow), lifting deployment frequency 60% and cutting rollback incidents by half, while optimizing models with quantization and ONNX Runtime for faster inference.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
SphereSoftwareLabs
Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 6 months)
Architected and deployed end-to-end Python ML pipelines on AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, EC2) and Kubernetes (EKS) to shorten model deployment cycles. Built production RAG and multi-agent LLM workflows with evaluation harnesses, monitoring, and guardrails to improve answer quality and flag drift before user impact.
Data Scientist
RBCTech Solutions
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021 (3 years)
Built and deployed predictive patient-outcome models and integrated them into clinical decision-making workflows for healthcare providers. Developed scalable HIPAA-compliant ETL pipelines, medical NLP (classification and NER) with Hugging Face, and production REST APIs, along with validation via A/B testing and stakeholder dashboards.
Junior Machine Learning Engineer
Nike
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)
Developed Python time-series demand-forecasting models to improve inventory accuracy at distribution centers and built reusable preprocessing pipelines for structured and unstructured retail data. Supported deployment of batch prediction workflows and contributed to feature-store architecture for consistent ML feature reuse across models.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Western Washington University
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
2015 - 2017
Completed a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence at Western Washington University from 2015 to 2017.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Apache Spark
AWS Step Functions
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Gmail
Rollout
Databricks
JavaScript
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Keras
Kubeflow
Kafka
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Gemini
gRPC
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Kafka Streams
Airflow
GuardRails
SQL
XGBoost
Hugging Face
LightGBM
Qdrant
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Weaviate
Evidently AI
AutoGen
Pydantic
Pinecone
CrewAI
Ray
DeepEval
Ragas
ONNX Runtime
pgvector
Agentic
Faiss
LangGraph
Safe
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
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Skills
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