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I'm a passionate AI/ML engineer with a track record of shipping production-grade AI agents and scalable backend systems. I design end-to-end ML pipelines, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflow automation that reduce manual work and accelerate growth across healthcare and tech environments. I enjoy collaborating with business stakeholders to translate needs into robust, observable AI solutions, deploying in cloud environments (AWS and GCP), and maintaining secure, auditable ML platforms with CI/CD. I love shipping reliable AI at scale and mentoring teams to reach new heights.…I'm a passionate AI/ML engineer with a track record of shipping production-grade AI agents and scalable backend systems. I design end-to-end ML pipelines, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflow automation that reduce manual work and accelerate growth across healthcare and tech environments. I enjoy collaborating with business stakeholders to translate needs into robust, observable AI solutions, deploying in cloud environments (AWS and GCP), and maintaining secure, auditable ML platforms with CI/CD. I love shipping reliable AI at scale and mentoring teams to reach new heights.

Asifa G. Aikens

AI Engineer, Data Scientist, Full Stack Developer, +2

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I'm a passionate AI/ML engineer with a track record of shipping production-grade AI agents and scalable backend systems. I design end-to-end ML pipelines, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflow automation that reduce manual work and accelerate growth across healthcare and tech environments. I enjoy collaborating with business stakeholders to translate needs into robust, observable AI solutions, deploying in cloud environments (AWS and GCP), and maintaining secure, auditable ML platforms with CI/CD. I love shipping reliable AI at scale and mentoring teams to reach new heights.…I'm a passionate AI/ML engineer with a track record of shipping production-grade AI agents and scalable backend systems. I design end-to-end ML pipelines, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflow automation that reduce manual work and accelerate growth across healthcare and tech environments. I enjoy collaborating with business stakeholders to translate needs into robust, observable AI solutions, deploying in cloud environments (AWS and GCP), and maintaining secure, auditable ML platforms with CI/CD. I love shipping reliable AI at scale and mentoring teams to reach new heights.

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I’m a passionate AI/ML engineer with a track record of shipping production-grade AI agents and scalable backend systems. I design end-to-end ML pipelines, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflow automation that reduce manual work and accelerate growth across healthcare and tech environments.

I enjoy collaborating with business stakeholders to translate needs into robust, observable AI solutions, deploying in cloud environments (AWS and GCP), and maintaining secure, auditable ML platforms with CI/CD. I love shipping reliable AI at scale and mentoring teams to reach new heights.

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Work Experience

Senior AI/ML Engineer at Acentr a Health

February 2, 2023 - March 2, 2026

Architected and built modular AI agents using LangChain and LangGraph to automate multi-step business workflows, including document processing, data extraction, and report generation. Designed finite-state machines, tool-calling capabilities, and human-in-the-loop checks to reduce manual processing time by 38% for high-volume tasks. Built end-to-end RAG pipelines with production-grade ML components and governance.

Senior Backend & ML Engineer at Parkland Health

September 1, 2021 - February 2, 2023

Developed production ML models and end-to-end RAG pipelines, leveraging LangChain-based tooling to enable semantic search over health records and documents. Implemented targeted interventions that improved care program response rates by 27%.

Machine Learning Engineer (Back-End Focus) at Parkland Health

January 1, 2020 - August 1, 2021

Built end-to-end ML pipelines for patient care and engagement using XGBoost and scikit-learn, integrating with EHR data to power predictive insights and outreach initiatives.

Web Developer at LawnStarter

January 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Developed multi-threaded Python scripts for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL). Built web-scraping tools using Scrapy and BeautifulSoup to improve data acquisition efficiency. Created interactive UI components with React, resulting in a notable increase in user engagement and experience.