Experience
Building AI systems that actually get used.
Founder & AI Platform Engineer
CurrentFounderEduScale
Jan 2025 – Present
Building AI-powered education infrastructure processing 5,000+ schools.
- Scaled to 5,000+ schools with real-time analytics
- 60% token reduction with proprietary RAG pipeline
- European Innovation Award winner
- Global finalist (Top 4 worldwide) at DigiEduHack
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AI Engineer
ContractCue AI
Jan 2025 – Apr 2026
Delivered backend systems for enterprise AI use cases under strict reliability requirements.
- Built RAG pipelines optimized for latency, cost, and response quality
- Designed evaluation workflows for LLM output quality
- Implemented audit logging and SOC 2 compliant infrastructure
- Optimized RAG pipelines for low-latency production environments
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AI Engineer
Tavinova
Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
Built full RAG platform from scratch with LangGraph + Ollama + PostgreSQL.
- Reduced query latency by 22% through optimization
- Built document pipeline handling 100+ ops/sec
- Introduced CI/CD pipelines, reducing failures by 90%
- Deployed production system using Docker and Traefik
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Software Engineer Intern
Mastercard
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
Developed backend features for secure payment systems.
- Improved analytics performance by 18% through query optimization
- Worked within production systems handling real user data
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AI Engineer, Founder, and Builder creating practical AI systems for education, privacy, and healthcare.
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