Russell
From Ireland (UTC+1)
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Russell is a senior AI engineer with deep expertise in Python, applied machine learning, LLM integration, and AWS infrastructure. He has led projects involving OpenAI API usage, model fine-tuning, classifier pipelines, and pragmatic architecture decisions for cost and reliability. His strengths include critical evaluation, honest communication, and a client-focused approach. While highly effective in applied AI and backend roles, his production RAG experience is prototype-level and not current.
38 years of commercial experience in
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Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
Multi-dimensional web content classifiers, replacing a third-party OpenAI API dependency with in-house models and halving per-page inference cost while eliminating external API reliance.
- Developed multi-dimensional web content classifiers, replacing a third-party OpenAI API dependency with in-house models and halving per-page inference cost while eliminating external API reliance.
- Built and deployed AI-generated content detection systems across video and web platforms from prototype to production on AWS.
- Prototyped visual detection of AI-generated video on YouTube using off-the-shelf models and optimized it for production using channel-reputation signals.
Founder & Software Engineer
Variety of projects for clients and prototypes for potential commercial products, including an opt-in outreach bot that negotiated marketing placement, an RAG tool to search building codes for contractors, and an automated receptionist.
- Built a data integrity tool that detected and prevented the corruption Excel introduced when importing CSVs.
- Designed and implemented an AI receptionist prototype handling email and phone inquiries via LLM API calls.
- Developed a text-input acceleration tool that cut keystrokes by up to 60%.
- Built AWS backend infrastructure for an automated B2B outreach system that contacted and negotiated deals with opted-in partner sites.