Senior AI Engineer with 8 years of experience building and scaling production AI systems across LLM applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI platform engineering. I design end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, model integration, evaluation, deployment workflows, and production monitoring. I focus on reliability, performance, and cost-efficient AI operations, with strong distributed systems and backend engineering experience. I’ve progressed from AI application development to owning AI architecture, evaluation frameworks, and production AI platforms, including multi-model routing and observability tooling.

David Wilson

Senior AI Engineer with 8 years of experience building and scaling production AI systems across LLM applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI platform engineering. I design end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, model integration, evaluation, deployment workflows, and production monitoring. I focus on reliability, performance, and cost-efficient AI operations, with strong distributed systems and backend engineering experience. I’ve progressed from AI application development to owning AI architecture, evaluation frameworks, and production AI platforms, including multi-model routing and observability tooling.

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Senior AI Engineer with 8 years of experience building and scaling production AI systems across LLM applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI platform engineering. I design end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, model integration, evaluation, deployment workflows, and production monitoring.

I focus on reliability, performance, and cost-efficient AI operations, with strong distributed systems and backend engineering experience. I’ve progressed from AI application development to owning AI architecture, evaluation frameworks, and production AI platforms, including multi-model routing and observability tooling.

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Work Experience

Senior AI Engineer at Langate
May 2, 2023 - February 2, 2026
Architected scalable AI systems supporting 1M+ users across enterprise and SaaS production environments. Designed multi-model routing and orchestration systems to dynamically select LLMs based on cost, latency, and quality requirements. Developed evaluation, benchmarking, and observability frameworks to measure model performance and production reliability. Implemented AI safety controls including prompt injection detection, response validation, and output filtering. Improved inference performance using caching strategies, batching, asynchronous processing, and distributed execution models. Built AI microservices using Python (FastAPI), Node.js, Spring Boot, and .NET Core within distributed system architectures.
AI Developer at John Howard Perficient
November 1, 2018 - January 1, 2023
Developed AI applications using large language models, integrating APIs into internal tools and customer-facing systems. Built RAG pipelines using embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search to improve response accuracy. Created prompt templates, testing workflows, and evaluation processes to improve consistency and reliability of AI outputs. Developed backend services and APIs using Python (FastAPI), Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis to support AI-driven applications. Supported data preparation, model experimentation, and performance tuning to improve inference quality and system behavior.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Wichita State University
April 1, 2015 - September 1, 2018
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Wichita State University
April 1, 2015 - September 1, 2018

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Computers & Electronics