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Umer Butt

@umerbutt3

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Senior Machine Learning engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and production ML systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can own end-to-end ML systems—especially NLP/LLM productionization, MLOps, and model reliability—within collaborative teams that value engineering rigor and measurable impact.

I am a Senior AI/ML Engineer with 6+ years delivering machine learning systems from concept to production, focusing on NLP/LLM and computer vision when required. I take ownership across data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and monitoring to ship reliable services.

I have built solutions for prediction, ranking, forecasting, anomaly detection, and automation, and I specialize in retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, embeddings, and LLM evaluation to reduce hallucinations and improve trustworthiness.

I partner closely with product, data engineering, and backend teams to define requirements, standardize training and evaluation workflows, and maintain production quality through experiment tracking, model versioning, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior AI / ML Engineer

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Ginkgo Bioworks

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)

Delivered healthcare-oriented ML capabilities from requirements through production support, built NLP and RAG pipelines, and deployed real-time inference services to improve reliability and operational observability.

Python SQL Transformers RAG fastAPI Docker Kubernetes MLFlow Monitoring

AI / ML Engineer

Hippo Holdings

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 11 months)

Built ML-backed backend capabilities including batch scoring and online inference pipelines, engineered feature modules and gradient-boosting models, and productionized model services with monitoring and alerting.