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Full-time senior IC or hands-on technical lead roles in applied AI/ML — owning systems end-to-end across product, engineering, and operations.
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Senior applied AI/ML — IC roles, hands-on technical leadership, and selective consulting.
I work best with product, engineering, and operations teams who want practical progress: better decisions, better systems, and less AI theater.
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Part-time
Ongoing involvement without a full-time commitment — useful for teams that need senior technical judgment alongside their existing build velocity.
Consulting
Focused, scoped engagements: a model stack to improve, an evaluation loop to design, or a system to move from prototype to production.
Advisory
Periodic strategic input for founders and engineering leaders who want a second opinion on AI/ML direction without a delivery commitment.
Mentee / Mentorship
Mentoring junior data scientists and ML engineers — and open to being mentored by people deeper in adjacent areas like distributed systems or research ML.
Collaboration / Projects
Open-source builds, applied research, and side projects with peers when the problem is meaningful and the work fits alongside ongoing engagements.
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