AI Engineer & Data Scientist Product Owner

AI Engineer, Data Scientist, and Technical Product Owner with 7+ years building and shipping production AI systems end-to-end across DeepTech, Hospitality, and Retail. Experience with training ML, VLMs and tuning LLMs for multimodal use cases. Extensive AI tooling experience in Retrieval-Augmented Generation, agentic LLM workflows, MCP tool integration, evaluation harnesses, and guardrails for enterprise GenAI. Hands-on across Python, Go, C, and Rust, with deep data management experience spanning vector stores, streaming pipelines, and large-scale document intelligence. Aerospace engineering background brings rigor in numerical methods and quantitative modeling. Known for leading cross-functional teams of 10 - 30 engineers, mentoring junior talent, and driving measurable improvements in cost, latency, and model accuracy. Hardworking, innovative, and energized by taking ambiguous problems from prototype to production.