I am a senior AI/ML engineer with a decade of experience designing, deploying, and scaling machine learning systems across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise data platforms. I specialize in Python, deep learning, MLOps, and cloud-based AI solutions, and I enjoy turning complex data challenges into reliable, compliant production systems. I’ve led end-to-end pipelines, integrated GenAI/LLMs, and built governance and observability into data workflows. I’m passionate about collaboration, mentoring teams, and delivering value through practical AI that respects privacy and regulatory requirements.

Michael Clayton

I am a senior AI/ML engineer with a decade of experience designing, deploying, and scaling machine learning systems across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise data platforms. I specialize in Python, deep learning, MLOps, and cloud-based AI solutions, and I enjoy turning complex data challenges into reliable, compliant production systems. I’ve led end-to-end pipelines, integrated GenAI/LLMs, and built governance and observability into data workflows. I’m passionate about collaboration, mentoring teams, and delivering value through practical AI that respects privacy and regulatory requirements.

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I am a senior AI/ML engineer with a decade of experience designing, deploying, and scaling machine learning systems across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise data platforms. I specialize in Python, deep learning, MLOps, and cloud-based AI solutions, and I enjoy turning complex data challenges into reliable, compliant production systems.

I’ve led end-to-end pipelines, integrated GenAI/LLMs, and built governance and observability into data workflows. I’m passionate about collaboration, mentoring teams, and delivering value through practical AI that respects privacy and regulatory requirements.

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Work Experience

Lead AI/ML Engineer at OmniData LLC
July 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Led end-to-end AI/ML pipelines for data integration, governance, and large-scale deployment. Architected workflows using Airflow, Spark, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS (S3/Glue/Redshift), GCP (Vertex AI). Built feature stores (PostgreSQL, Redis) and automated MLOps pipelines with Kubeflow and MLflow. Integrated LLMs/GenAI using Hugging Face, LangChain, FAISS, Pinecone for natural language querying. Deployed ML services as Docker/Kubernetes microservices with CI/CD via GitHub Actions, ArgoCD. Implemented data governance & observability using Apache Ranger, OpenLineage, Great Expectations, EvidentlyAI, WhyLabs. Applied privacy-preserving ML (federated learning, differential privacy) across sensitive datasets. Delivered executive insights with Power BI, Streamlit, and trained teams on MLOps & GenAI adoption.
Senior AI/ML Engineer at IWP Capital
June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2020
Designed fraud/risk ML pipelines with XGBoost, PyTorch, Spark Streaming, Kafka. Built time-series forecasting models (LSTM) and NLP models (BERT, spaCy) for chat and claims classification. Applied graph ML (PyTorch Geometric, NetworkX) for fraud network detection and SHAP for explainable ML. Deployed ML APIs via Docker/Kubernetes, migrated workloads to AWS SageMaker, and automated retraining with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Optimized PostgreSQL/Redshift schemas for feature stores and delivered dashboards in Plotly Dash. Ensured GDPR & Basel III compliance through PII masking, encryption, and regulatory stress tests.
Machine Learning Engineer at IDEXX
October 1, 2018 - October 1, 2018
Built predictive models (Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, Logistic Regression) for patient outcome forecasting. Developed ETL pipelines with Python, SQL, Spark for HIPAA-compliant healthcare data. Applied NLP (TF-IDF, LDA, word2vec) and CNNs in TensorFlow for clinical notes and imaging analysis. Automated feature engineering with Scikit-learn, reducing retraining cycles. Deployed ML scoring services with Flask REST APIs, enabling real-time clinical decision support. Created visualization tools in Tableau, matplotlib and optimized SQL queries for large-scale retrieval. Enforced PHI/PII anonymization to maintain privacy and compliance.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science at New York University
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services