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Tendresse Dutra

@tendressedutra

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Backend Engineer building production AI systems with LLMOps and observability.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to full-remote roles where I can build production AI infrastructure—agentic pipelines, RAG, and faithfulness evaluation—with strong observability, reliability, and real operational impact.

I’m a Backend Engineer with 10+ years in distributed systems, building AI infrastructure on that foundation. I focus on agentic pipelines, batch LLM analysis with faithfulness evaluation, and production-ready observability.

I’ve shipped end-to-end systems like an AIOps intelligence layer for production incident analysis (pgvector RAG, LLM-as-judge faithfulness scoring, Prometheus/Grafana metrics) and an end-to-end vision model specialization pipeline (OpenCV preprocessing, QLoRA fine-tuning with Phi-3.5-Vision, MLflow/Databricks tracking, and FastAPI serving).

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI Engineer — Vision Model Dev

Current

VISUAL-FINETUNE-LAB

Jan 2026 - Present (3 months)

End-to-End Vision Model Specialization Pipeline
github.com/tdutra-dev/visual-finetune-lab
- OpenCV preprocessing → GPT-4o dataset generation → QLoRA fine-tuning
on Phi-3.5-Vision → FastAPI on Azure. ~10x cost reduction vs GPT-4o at runtime.
Stack: Python · OpenCV · OpenAI API · HuggingFace PEFT · QLoRA · Phi-3.5-Vision · MLflow · Databricks · FastAPI · Docker · Azure

Python OpenCV QLoRA MLFlow fastAPI Docker Azure

Software Engineer

Swag International

Aug 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 5 months)

Built backend microservices for a fintech/crypto platform using event-driven Kafka/Confluent pipelines to enable real-time sync across 12+ modules. Implemented observability with Elasticsearch to cut mean time to incident detection from hours to minutes and reduced Customer.io email workflow redundancy by 60% using Liquid templating.

Spring Boot Kafka Confluent MySQL Microservices Elasticsearch Event Driven Architecture Observability Java

Backend Developer

Next4B

Mar 2022 - Jul 2022 (4 months)

Developed Python APIs and a MongoDB data layer for financial reporting dashboards, building data aggregation pipelines for client-facing analytics. Monitored production performance with Grafana.

Python REST APIs MongoDB Data Aggregation Financial Reporting Monitoring Grafana Backend Services