Senior AI/ML Engineer

Felix Mathew

Austin, Texas felix-mathew@outlook.com +1 (469) 727-9599 linkedin.com/in/mathew-felix github.com/mathew-felix

Summary

Technical skills

Machine Learning

Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, TensorFlow, Keras, Random Forest, LSTM, 1D-CNN, SHAP, computer vision, time-series modeling

Data Science

Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Tableau, feature engineering, statistical analysis, experiment design, model evaluation

Generative AI

RAG, Claude, Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, protein language models, prompt engineering, E5 embeddings, cross-encoder reranking

AI Engineering

LangGraph, LlamaIndex, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation workflows, model serving, FastAPI, Flask

LLMOps

MLflow, LangSmith, RAGAS, Evidently AI, model and prompt evaluation, regression testing, drift monitoring, guardrails, Prometheus, Grafana

Big Data

PySpark, Spark SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Databricks, Delta Lake, BigQuery, Snowflake, batch and streaming pipelines

Cloud Computing

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Amazon Bedrock, AWS HealthOmics, Amazon S3, Amazon EKS, Gemini, Vision AI, BigQuery

Software Engineering

Python, SQL, REST APIs, asynchronous processing, microservices, distributed systems, API validation, rate limiting

Databases

PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, Delta Lake

DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, CI/CD, Git, GitHub, containerized deployment, application monitoring

Professional experience

Senior AI Engineer

Amgen · Thousand Oaks, California

Protein Language Models & Multi-Omics Infrastructure

  • Build ML infrastructure and evaluation workflows for protein-language-model and multi-omics use cases within Amgen's generative-biology environment.
  • Benchmark AMPLIFY's 120M- and 350M-parameter checkpoints on protein sequences up to its published 2,048-residue context.
  • Track task metrics, model configurations, sequence-length test slices, and efficiency regressions in MLflow to make checkpoint comparisons reproducible.
  • Analyze task-quality and compute trade-offs between the 120M and 350M checkpoints by sequence-length slice; the published AMPLIFY 350M comparison reports 43× fewer parameters and 24–29× higher inference throughput than ESM2-15B, depending on sequence length.
  • Engineer Spark SQL and Delta Lake pipelines for multi-omics data managed through AWS HealthOmics and Databricks.
  • Package selected model services for controlled deployment with Amazon Bedrock, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Core technologies: Python, Databricks, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, MLflow, AWS HealthOmics, Bedrock, S3, Docker, Kubernetes

AI Engineer Intern

Albertsons Companies · Pleasanton, California

Feb 2025 — Dec 2025

Ask AI Retrieval, Evaluation & Merchandising Data

  • Contributed to retrieval and evaluation workflows for Ask AI during its 2025 rollout across Albertsons banner apps; Google reported that 85%+ of conversations began with open-ended or exploratory queries.
  • Built labeled evaluation sets covering exploratory shopping intents, product-discovery requests, and ambiguous natural-language queries.
  • Measured retrieval relevance, response grounding, and answer quality across intent and product-category slices before release.
  • Prototyped computer-vision workflows for produce-quality inspection with distribution and engineering teams.
  • Prepared BigQuery, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake datasets for merchandising and promotional analysis.
  • Implemented request validation, PII controls, and rate limiting for customer-facing FastAPI services.

Core technologies: Python, Google Cloud, Gemini, Vision AI, BigQuery, Databricks, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Docker, RAGAS

Machine Learning Engineer

Yubi (formerly CredAvenue) · Bengaluru, India

Feb 2023 — Jul 2024

Explainable Credit Risk & Transaction Feature Pipelines

  • Developed and compared XGBoost and LightGBM credit-risk models using transaction and behavioral features.
  • Added SHAP-based reason codes, feature-level explanations, and model documentation for governance review.
  • Supported risk-modeling workflows for Yubi's co-lending platform, which processed 9M+ transactions in the first nine months of FY24 and reported 40% year-over-year growth in gross transaction value; these are platform-level figures.
  • Built Kafka and Snowflake pipelines for transaction normalization and behavioral feature generation.
  • Automated repeatable training and evaluation workflows with Databricks, Spark SQL, MLflow, and Airflow.
  • Packaged selected models behind Dockerized FastAPI services for integration with downstream applications.

Core technologies: Python, SQL, XGBoost, LightGBM, SHAP, Databricks, Spark SQL, MLflow, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, FastAPI, Docker

Software Engineer Trainee

NeoSOFT Technologies · Mumbai, India

Aug 2021 — Jan 2023

Enterprise Data, Analytics & Model Delivery

  • Implemented Spark-based AWS ETL and reporting workflows that consolidated multi-region data for KPI reporting and predictive analytics.
  • Prepared and transformed model-ready datasets for supply-chain forecasting workflows built with Scikit-learn.
  • Supported fraud-detection experiments using Random Forest and XGBoost, including feature preparation and model evaluation.
  • Tuned PostgreSQL queries and added Redis caching where repeated analytics requests were slowing dashboards.
  • Supported containerized model delivery and CI/CD workflows for repeatable development and release processes.
  • Built Tableau and Matplotlib reports for KPI, pipeline, and model-review discussions with client teams.

Core technologies: Python, PySpark, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Airflow, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Tableau

Associate Software Engineer

Dozee · Bengaluru, India

Aug 2017 — Jul 2021

Contactless Remote Patient Monitoring & Predictive Health Analytics

  • Built ballistocardiography signal-processing pipelines that converted under-mattress micro-vibration data into cardiac and respiratory features; by June 2021, the Government of India reported that the broader Dozee platform had served 30,000+ patients across 4,000+ beds in 35 districts.
  • Developed reusable preprocessing and feature-extraction workflows with SciPy, Pandas, and NumPy for physiological time-series data.
  • Trained and evaluated 1D-CNN and LSTM models for respiratory events and physiological anomalies.
  • Compared model outputs with patient-level reference monitoring data and performed clinically relevant error analysis.
  • Added temporal trend features used by early-warning workflows for longitudinal physiological monitoring.
  • Packaged reusable feature extraction in Dockerized Flask services for low-latency inference.

Core technologies: Python, TensorFlow, Keras, LSTMs, SciPy, Pandas, NumPy, Flask, Docker, digital signal processing, time-series modeling

Selected projects

OmniBind — Layout-Aware Document Intelligence & Agentic Retrieval

Independent project · Benchmark evaluation

  • Designed an asynchronous document-processing pipeline for engineering schematics and financial charts containing text, tables, figures, and layout-dependent relationships.
  • Preserved page hierarchy, region types, and bounding boxes so downstream answers could retain page- and region-level source coordinates.
  • Recorded 0.86 aggregate extraction F1 on a 250-document project benchmark at approximately 3.5 pages per second.
  • Built structure-aware indexing with E5-large-v2 embeddings and cross-encoder reranking, improving NDCG@10 by 0.092 across 150 labeled queries.
  • Implemented a hierarchical LangGraph workflow with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and MCP-based tools for retrieval, evidence assembly, and answer orchestration.
  • Deployed FastAPI workers over Redis on AWS EKS and maintained p95 orchestration overhead below 1.4 seconds in benchmark testing.

Technologies: LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, MCP, E5 embeddings, cross-encoder reranking, FastAPI, Redis, Docker, AWS EKS

VigilantAI — LLM Security & Reliability Gateway

Independent project · Simulated load and fault-injection testing

  • Designed a model-agnostic FastAPI reverse proxy that normalized request and streaming-response handling for Amazon Bedrock and self-hosted language models.
  • Centralized streaming PII/PHI-pattern redaction, policy checks, audit events, and model-routing decisions at the gateway boundary.
  • Recorded 0.87 aggregate F1 on the project's PII/PHI-pattern redaction benchmark; this prototype result is not presented as proof of regulatory compliance.
  • Sustained 800 requests per second across 400 concurrent connections with p95 proxy overhead below 18 ms in proxy-only load tests that excluded model-generation latency.
  • Implemented DynamoDB-backed token-bucket limiting and initiated secondary-model routing in less than 400 ms after injected HTTP 429 responses, excluding fallback generation time.
  • Added asynchronous response-quality and drift evaluation with RAGAS, Evidently AI, and LangSmith, with operational monitoring in Prometheus and Grafana.

Technologies: FastAPI, Amazon Bedrock, DynamoDB, RAGAS, Evidently AI, LangSmith, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker

Education

Texas State University

Master of Science in Computer Science · Thesis Option · Aug 2024–May 2026

Thesis: Neural Region-of-Interest-Aware Video Compression for Wildlife Monitoring Under Edge Computing Constraints · Machine Learning and Applications, Parallel Processing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Database Theory and Design, Advanced Software Engineering

Certifications & Accreditation

  • AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – ProfessionalAmazon Web Services
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services
  • Databricks Academy Accreditation – Generative AI FundamentalsDatabricks Academy