John Nespeca

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Senior AI Engineer with extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade GenAI and Agentic AI systems across voice, chat, and enterprise workflows.

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Senior AI Engineer with extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade GenAI and Agentic AI
systems across voice, chat, and enterprise workflows.
Proven expertise in LLMs, agentic AI workflows, RAG architectures, vectorsearch, and prompt engineering, with deep practical experience in Voice AI,speech-to-text technologies, and conversational AI platforms. Strong background in AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot & Dynamics Contact Center, Google ADK, and cloud-native AI deployments.
Adept at combining hands-on engineering with system architecture ownership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring to deliver scalable, reliable AI solutions in real-world environments.

  • 6 years' experience

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Professional Services
  • Telecommunications

Work experience· 4 roles

Senior GenAI / Agentic AI Engineer · Kore.ai, Inc.Feb 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Designed and implemented agentic AI workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and MCP for multi-agent orchestration in production conversational and task-driven systems. Led Voice AI development, integrating STT and TTS pipelines to power enterprise voice assistants and improve call automation while reducing human workload. Built enterprise RAG pipelines with embeddings, semantic search, chunking strategies, and prompt engineering for better relevance and factual grounding. Developed and deployed LLM solutions on AWS Bedrock with low-latency, secure integrations to backend services. Implemented Microsoft Dynamics Contact Center solutions using Copilot Studio and Azure AI for omnichannel support with real-time AI assistance. Led platform architecture using Spring Boot and ElasticSearch, mentored engineers, and set prompt-engineering standards across major model providers.

Senior AI Engineer · Gong.io Inc.Jan 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Built LLM-powered conversational and analytical agents for sales intelligence, generating insights from large volumes of voice and text data. Developed Voice AI pipelines using Spark and Vertex AI for speech-to-text transcription and NLP processing to reduce manual review and improve call analysis and summarization. Implemented search and RAG systems using vector databases and embedding-based retrieval for stronger contextual accuracy. Designed agentic AI workflows using LangChain to coordinate multiple AI components for task execution and decision-making. Led LLMOps/MLOps, including model monitoring and CI/CD on AWS and GCP to improve reliability and accelerate deployment cycles.

AI Engineer · Zest AIJan 2020 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

Developed NLP and conversational AI systems for financial services using Transformers (PyTorch) and LlamaIndex to automate customer interactions and decision workflows. Built search-driven AI solutions using embeddings and semantic similarity with LlamaIndex and PostgreSQL for underwriting and risk assessment. Implemented AI workflow pipelines integrating ML models with Django backend services and CI/CD for reliable, scalable inference. Collaborated with data science and engineering teams to productionize models using MLOps practices and automated deployment pipelines to improve reproducibility and speed up releases.

AI Engineer · Suki AI, Inc.Sep 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology2014 – 2018

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