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Hire Valentín D. - AI Engineer - New York

Applied Ai Engineer

8+ years
new york, new york, united states
Uiagent

About valentín

I'm an AI/ML Engineer who enjoys building. I have a background in deploying real-world, LLM-based systems and applying statistical learning to product development. After founding ApplyRight, an AI-powered EdTech platform, I am focused on joining a technical team where I can deepen my backend and applied ML expertise. Fluent in modern AI/ML frameworks, I'm passionate about developing systems that bridge human learning and artificial intelligence.At Northwestern, I study industrial engineering with a certificate in managerial analytics from Kellogg.

Key Skills

artificial intelligencecascading style sheetsdata sciencegithtmljavascriptlarge language model operationslarge language modelsmachine learningnumerical optimizationopenai apipostgresqlpythonpytorchr (programming language)+4 more

Experience

Applied Ai Engineer

Current

Uiagent

Engineering Consultant

C.h. Robinson

Improved account manager satisfaction with client assignments at a global logistics provider by leading a group of four NU students to develop a model decreasing portfolio inequity by 30% across all 1,100 clients in the Chicago office Developed interactive cluster-analysis optimization models using Python on the backend and integrating them into Excel so clients could freely simulate all possible business cases

Founding Ai / Ml Engineer

Applyright

* Used AI to make college admissions more accessible through free, high-quality essay feedback for hundreds of students. Resident team at The Garage and selected for the Jumpstart pre-accelerator Summer 2024 batch, receiving $10k in grant funding and $5k in prize money. * Built a full stack web application with a complex, multi-LLM system using React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, PostgreSQL, and other libraries. * Engaged in multiple rounds of iteration using feedback from 50+ students, teachers, parents, and counselors to develop a competitive product. * Created a synthetic dataset pairing essay evaluations, essay feedback, and generated reasoning traces to improve our AI-generated feedback through fine-tuning (using OpenAI and Meta LLMs).

Education

Northwestern University

Bachelors

Northwestern University

Bachelor Of Science

Montclair High School

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valentín specializes in AI Engineer - New York, with expertise in artificial intelligence, cascading style sheets, data science, git, html.

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valentín is based in new york, new york, united states.

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valentín has 8+ years of professional experience.

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