Benjamin Schmidt

Technical Support Manager at Rhino Federated Computing

Led technical support team to bridge the gap between customers and engineers for rapidly scaling federated learning product for finance and pharmaceutical industries. Created and implemented incident response plans, installation runbooks, and customer support workflows as the business scales.

Senior Software Engineer, LLMs at Keystone AI

Designed, fine-tuned, evaluated, and deployed state-of-the-art AI models, including LLMs, using reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and few-shot learning. Evaluated architectures such as GPT, LLaMA, and BERT, and frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and HuggingFace. Managed multiple complex work streams and communicated technical concepts across audiences.

Senior Lead AI/Machine Learning Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton

Led a team of five in implementing an Enterprise API Management (Apigee) instance for 20,000 technical users; defined a two-year product roadmap for growth and platform stabilization; scaled API delivery for AI and Data applications by adding 12 APIs and enabling automated, self-service onboarding for hundreds of users monthly; trained and deployed foundational models (Ollama, Mistral, and other open-source models) via Docker and Kubernetes on AWS; evaluated LLMs from HuggingFace for enterprise dissemination.

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton

Led an interdisciplinary team in Genomics Analytics on AWS Databricks; designed architecture and data masking to reduce model training time from days to minutes; modernized ETL from SSIS to ELT using Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse, cutting pipeline processing time from eight hours to one hour.

Mid Data Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton

Embedded data engineer on a cross-functional team delivering a BERT-based social media tool; built data stores and a full data lifecycle plan for large-volume applications; created end-to-end ETL pipelines with Pentaho and Python, saving 16 hours per month.

Data Scientist/Developer at ABS Group

Designed and released an internal edge network application; developed Doc2Vec and anchor topic modeling for generative text to identify potential threat vectors; authored database scripts for annual data validation, reducing review time by two weeks.