Nothing's gonna change my love for AI.

Gerard Christian Kuotu

Nothing's gonna change my love for AI.

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Nothing’s gonna change my love for AI.

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English
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Work Experience

Principal ML Engineer at Drive Health
December 1, 2022 - December 1, 2025
Led design and deployment of a HIPAA-compliant, multi-agent Voice AI for clinical applications; architected and scaled a Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation system using PgVector and HNSW-based indexing with a TinyBERT reranker to reduce hallucinations and boost retrieval precision. Integrated Generative AI Guardrails and custom safety checkers; optimized LLMs with vLLM, FlashAttention, and dynamic batching on AWS EKS, increasing GPU utilization by 30% and cutting average inference latency by 50%. Built distributed fine-tuning pipelines for open-source LLMs (Llama, Gemma) using QLoRA and Instruction Tuning on SageMaker; implemented RLHF with PPO. Implemented MCP server integration with LiveKit and Tavily Search; established Prompt Engineering, HITL feedback loops, and an automated evaluation pipeline with LLM-as-a-Judge.
Founding AI Engineer at Our English LLC
October 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Led end-to-end development and launch of a Voice AI English Tutor within an LMS; established Model Context Protocol layer to enable low-latency bi-directional voice and structured data exchange. Built an event-driven MLOps architecture using AWS SQS and Fargate; developed a Hybrid RAG system with vector search and metadata filtering; trained and deployed multilingual TTS models. Designed an automated LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation framework automating 90% of model QA and reducing rating variance by 20%. Led cross-functional onboarding for Product and Data Science teams and defined core LLM architecture and MLOps standards.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sage Software Inc
July 1, 2018 - November 1, 2022
Architected Copilot Factory Framework (CFF), an internal LLM orchestration system to rapidly prototype and deploy domain-specific chatbots for financial analysts. Built end-to-end MLOps pipeline using Kubeflow, Terraform, and CloudFormation on AWS EKS; containerized a BERT-based NER model; implemented BERT-based topic modeling (Gensim) for 10M+ records annually; established evaluation and monitoring with Weights & Biases; improved image recognition accuracy to 98% via optimized computer vision pipeline (OpenCV/TensorFlow).
Data Scientist at Databricks
May 1, 2015 - June 1, 2018
Led large-scale data ingestion and preprocessing for financial markets data using Apache Spark; developed time-series forecasting models (ARIMA, LSTM, GRU), improving predictive accuracy by 18%; built data warehousing solutions in BigQuery with robust ETL; designed a classic Collaborative Filtering recommender engine for internal knowledge discovery, increasing utilization by 25%.
Software Engineer at Google
May 1, 2012 - April 1, 2015
Contributed to high-availability, low-latency backend services in a distributed microservices architecture; managed and optimized SQL/NoSQL schemas for core features; built robust data pipelines for logs and analytics; implemented A/B testing frameworks to drive data-informed product decisions; developed an initial text classification system for internal content moderation achieving 90% accuracy.

Education

Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence at Aix-Marseille University
September 1, 2023 - June 1, 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Stanford University
April 1, 2006 - September 1, 2010

Qualifications

Google Advanced Data Analytics
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Data Science: R basics
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Scientific Computing and Python for Data Science
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Machine Learning and Statistical Analysis
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
IBM Data Science
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
IBM Applied AI
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Google Data Analytics
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning for Data Scientists
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026
MLOps Tools: MLflow and Hugging Face
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Life Sciences, Professional Services

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