Hire Adam L. - Forward Deployed Engineer

* Led the company’s AI initiative from research through prototype delivery. Managed a team of 8 engineers, driving daily standups, task delegation, and research direction. Owned end-to-end development: AI research, model fine-tuning, backend infrastructure, and hardware buildout. Defined production server requirements and built all development workstations from scratch (OS, drivers, environments). Led model selection, LLM evaluation, and quantization research. Built a GPU orchestration and model routing service enabling developers to run and test against LLMs without downtime or single-server constraints. Documented the ML stack: fine-tuning approaches, inference infrastructure (Triton, vLLM), and hardware requirements for internal hosting. Partnered with teams across the company to identify pain points and deliver AI-assisted solutions: RAG systems, MCP servers, data collection and ingestion pipelines, and prompt engineering. Built the full application stack: Python/FastAPI backend, Redis for caching and job queues, Next.js frontend with NextAuth and 2FA. Containerized with Docker and owned deployment pipelines. Drove company-wide engagement across studios to gather requirements and document workflows. Delivered phase deliverables and executive presentations.

Skills: Python (Programming Language) · Artificial Neural Networks · Web Development · Django