Nexa’s core challenge is scaling model development and production operations together so that new AI capabilities remain fast, reliable, and maintainable as the product grows. At Alighieri, I lead production AI delivery across PyTorch training, data pipelines, FastAPI services, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, and optimization. This experience would help Nexa expand its AI capabilities while keeping model development closely integrated with the software and infrastructure required to operate them reliably. My current work includes configurable PyTorch training pipelines with dataset validation, experiment tracking, checkpoint management, hyperparameter tuning, and reproducible evaluation. I build Python, SQL, Spark, and Airflow pipelines to process structured and unstructured data from databases, APIs, and object storage. MLflow is used to track experiments and model versions and to support controlled promotion between development and production environments. For model serving, I build FastAPI services for real-time and asynchronous inference, incorporating validation, batching, timeouts, retries, health checks, and clear failure handling. Docker and Kubernetes support deployments across AWS and GCP. I optimize runtime performance through mixed precision, quantization, model warm-up, caching, request batching, resource profiling, and autoscaling. Monitoring covers model quality, data drift, latency, service errors, and infrastructure health. As a technical lead, I make architecture decisions, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, software, and data teams to integrate models into complete applications. I'm comfortable working with US-based and international stakeholders and explaining technical tradeoffs in clear, practical terms. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience can support Nexa's production AI roadmap.

Alexandru Solca

Nexa’s core challenge is scaling model development and production operations together so that new AI capabilities remain fast, reliable, and maintainable as the product grows. At Alighieri, I lead production AI delivery across PyTorch training, data pipelines, FastAPI services, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, and optimization. This experience would help Nexa expand its AI capabilities while keeping model development closely integrated with the software and infrastructure required to operate them reliably. My current work includes configurable PyTorch training pipelines with dataset validation, experiment tracking, checkpoint management, hyperparameter tuning, and reproducible evaluation. I build Python, SQL, Spark, and Airflow pipelines to process structured and unstructured data from databases, APIs, and object storage. MLflow is used to track experiments and model versions and to support controlled promotion between development and production environments. For model serving, I build FastAPI services for real-time and asynchronous inference, incorporating validation, batching, timeouts, retries, health checks, and clear failure handling. Docker and Kubernetes support deployments across AWS and GCP. I optimize runtime performance through mixed precision, quantization, model warm-up, caching, request batching, resource profiling, and autoscaling. Monitoring covers model quality, data drift, latency, service errors, and infrastructure health. As a technical lead, I make architecture decisions, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, software, and data teams to integrate models into complete applications. I'm comfortable working with US-based and international stakeholders and explaining technical tradeoffs in clear, practical terms. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience can support Nexa's production AI roadmap.

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Nexa’s core challenge is scaling model development and production operations together so that new AI capabilities remain fast, reliable, and maintainable as the product grows. At Alighieri, I lead production AI delivery across PyTorch training, data pipelines, FastAPI services, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, and optimization. This experience would help Nexa expand its AI capabilities while keeping model development closely integrated with the software and infrastructure required to operate them reliably.

My current work includes configurable PyTorch training pipelines with dataset validation, experiment tracking, checkpoint management, hyperparameter tuning, and reproducible evaluation. I build Python, SQL, Spark, and Airflow pipelines to process structured and unstructured data from databases, APIs, and object storage. MLflow is used to track experiments and model versions and to support controlled promotion between development and production environments.

For model serving, I build FastAPI services for real-time and asynchronous inference, incorporating validation, batching, timeouts, retries, health checks, and clear failure handling. Docker and Kubernetes support deployments across AWS and GCP. I optimize runtime performance through mixed precision, quantization, model warm-up, caching, request batching, resource profiling, and autoscaling. Monitoring covers model quality, data drift, latency, service errors, and infrastructure health.

As a technical lead, I make architecture decisions, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, software, and data teams to integrate models into complete applications. I’m comfortable working with US-based and international stakeholders and explaining technical tradeoffs in clear, practical terms.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience can support Nexa’s production AI roadmap.

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Senior AI/ML Engineer at Alighieri®
February 1, 2024 - Present
Led architecture and delivery of production AI capabilities for a cloud-based product, covering data processing, PyTorch model development, API integration, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Built configurable PyTorch training pipelines with dataset validation, experiment tracking, checkpoint management, hyperparameter tuning, and reproducible evaluation. Developed Python/SQL/Spark/Airflow pipelines to ingest, validate, transform, and version structured and unstructured data. Created FastAPI services for real-time and asynchronous inference with batching, retries, timeouts, health checks, and structured error handling. Containerized workloads with Docker and deployed to Kubernetes on AWS and GCP via automated CI/CD. Optimized inference with mixed precision, quantization, request batching, caching, warm-up, profiling, and autoscaling. Implemented MLflow versioning and production monitoring for quality, drift, latency/throughput, resource use, errors, and failed predict
Senior Data Scientist at BETEGY
August 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024
Built and deployed production machine learning models powering customer-facing predictions and recommendations. Developed data ingestion and feature engineering pipelines and trained/validated models using pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, and scikit-learn; performed batch inference. Implemented FastAPI endpoints and asynchronous workflows integrating inference with backend services. Containerized services and deployed them to Kubernetes with automated configuration and release workflows. Established MLflow experiment tracking, model registration, evaluation reporting, and environment promotion controls. Monitored model behavior, data quality, API latency, service health, and production exceptions; investigated unexpected results and collaborated with software, data, and product stakeholders to deliver maintainable ML features.
Machine Learning Engineer at Scandiweb
January 1, 2020 - July 1, 2022
Developed production ML systems for recommendation, search, classification, and customer behavior analysis. Built Python and SQL pipelines transforming catalog, transaction, content, and interaction data into model-ready datasets. Trained PyTorch and scikit-learn models with repeatable preprocessing, feature generation, evaluation, and artifact-management workflows. Implemented REST APIs and asynchronous workers connecting model services to customer-facing applications. Containerized services with Docker and supported Kubernetes deployments with automated testing, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring. Profiled preprocessing, inference, database access, and API calls to improve performance and reliability; collaborated with engineers, data teams, project managers, and clients for ongoing production support.
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at LeyLine Artificial Intelligence
July 1, 2016 - December 1, 2019
Researched and implemented machine learning methods for classification, information retrieval, sequence modeling, and predictive analytics. Built reusable training and evaluation components using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, pandas, and scikit-learn. Developed preprocessing and feature-engineering pipelines for structured and unstructured datasets. Designed reproducible experiments with documented hypotheses, dataset partitions, model configurations, and evaluation metrics. Profiled training/inference workloads to identify bottlenecks in data loading, model execution, memory use, and result processing; analyzed model errors and data distributions to guide feature/architecture/training/evaluation improvements. Collaborated with researchers and software engineers to convert validated approaches into maintainable production-oriented components.

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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
September 1, 2013 - June 1, 2016

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Software & Internet, Professional Services

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