I am Victor Barbuta, a senior AI/ML engineer with nearly a decade of experience designing and deploying intelligent systems powered by deep learning, large language models, and cloud-scale data architectures. I have led cross-functional AI initiatives and mentored teams of 10+ engineers to deliver production-grade ML solutions across industries. My strengths include prompt engineering, fine-tuning foundation models, building end-to-end ML pipelines, and integrating no-code/low-code tools to automate AI-driven workflows. I thrive on collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate complex problems into scalable, reliable AI solutions, and I continually invest in staying ahead of the latest AI trends, tooling, and best practices to ensure robust, impact-driven outcomes.

Victor Barbuta

I am Victor Barbuta, a senior AI/ML engineer with nearly a decade of experience designing and deploying intelligent systems powered by deep learning, large language models, and cloud-scale data architectures. I have led cross-functional AI initiatives and mentored teams of 10+ engineers to deliver production-grade ML solutions across industries. My strengths include prompt engineering, fine-tuning foundation models, building end-to-end ML pipelines, and integrating no-code/low-code tools to automate AI-driven workflows. I thrive on collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate complex problems into scalable, reliable AI solutions, and I continually invest in staying ahead of the latest AI trends, tooling, and best practices to ensure robust, impact-driven outcomes.

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I am Victor Barbuta, a senior AI/ML engineer with nearly a decade of experience designing and deploying intelligent systems powered by deep learning, large language models, and cloud-scale data architectures. I have led cross-functional AI initiatives and mentored teams of 10+ engineers to deliver production-grade ML solutions across industries. My strengths include prompt engineering, fine-tuning foundation models, building end-to-end ML pipelines, and integrating no-code/low-code tools to automate AI-driven workflows.

I thrive on collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate complex problems into scalable, reliable AI solutions, and I continually invest in staying ahead of the latest AI trends, tooling, and best practices to ensure robust, impact-driven outcomes.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior AI/ML Engineer at C3 AI (US)
April 1, 2022 - November 12, 2025
Developed a multi-modal deepfake detection pipeline using Vision Transformers, Wav2Vec2, and CLIP embeddings; trained adversarial detectors with PyTorch Lightning + AWS SageMaker; implemented real-time feature extraction via OpenCV, FFmpeg, and TensorRT; designed a hybrid CNN/Transformer ensemble achieving 97.9% accuracy on in-the-wild deepfake benchmarks; automated retraining with Vertex AI Pipelines and MLflow; built predictive ML pipelines for retail and e-commerce demand forecasting; ETL via Google Dataflow and BigQuery; dashboards in Tableau; API-driven automation with Zapier/n8n/Make; deployed inference APIs as microservices.
Senior ML/MLOps Engineer at Quantexa (UK)
March 1, 2022 - March 1, 2022
Architected scalable graph-based ML pipelines for entity resolution, fraud detection, and network anomaly detection; implemented real-time risk scoring; built multi-source ETL pipelines with Apache Spark, PySpark, Airflow, BigQuery, and GCP Dataflow; developed MLOps workflows with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows; applied GNNs, XGBoost, LSTM/RNNs, and NLP transformers for relationship inference, anomaly detection, and textual data analysis; monitored pipeline health and model drift with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK; optimized real-time inference with FastAPI, gRPC, Redis, Kafka; exposed secure, API-first ML endpoints for SaaS platform.
Software Engineer at Appster (Australia)
August 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017
Designed and implemented RESTful APIs and microservices powering high-traffic web and mobile applications across e-commerce, fintech, and healthcare; built backend architectures using Python, Node.js, and PHP frameworks; optimized relational and NoSQL databases; collaborated with front-end, mobile, and QA teams; integrated third-party APIs; implemented CI/CD pipelines and automated testing; mentored junior developers and contributed to cloud-native architecture modernization.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science at Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Retail

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