Silver Rauk
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Experience
Senior AI/ML Engineer
First Line Software
Led the architecture and deployment of a multi-agent system to coordinate complex tasks across distributed backend services, enhancing scalability and autonomous decision-making.
Integrated LLM APIs into internal tools, enabling modular NLP pipelines and reasoning capabilities.
Collaborated with product teams to design AI-driven features for real-time language understanding in user-facing applications.
Developed a cross-platform OCR engine to extract structured data from scanned documents, invoices, and handwritten forms.
Built low-latency voice transcription modules for real-time speech-to-text in customer support platforms.
Designed RESTful APIs and scalable backend infrastructure using FastAPI and PostgreSQL to serve AI-driven microservices in production.
Contributed to a document intelligence solution combining OCR and Whisper, GPT-4o-transcribe, and language models to enable conversational interactions with visual content.
Championed automated evaluation workflows for AI components, reducing deployment risks and improving iteration speed.
Full Stack Developer
Blazity
- Developed Superchat, an AI platform integrating OCR, chatbot tools, and media-to-text pipelines, streamlining user access to advanced document and language processing.
- Built a multi-model integration framework enabling users to interact with different LLM APIs, optimizing performance and output.
- Designed a targeted search engine leveraging language models for enhanced data retrieval and user accuracy.
- Implemented an offline OCR pipeline using vision models and camera input, allowing text extraction in disconnected environments.
- Engineered a voice assistant for customer support, combining speech-to-text and text-to-speech modules.
- Built a document analysis tool enabling semantic querying of static documents and conversational access to content.
- Developed frontend interfaces using React and integrated them with FastAPI backends for seamless AI interaction.
- Ensured high reliability with containerized deployments and monitoring of AI pipelines for performance drift and recovery.
Full Stack Developer
MindTitan OÜ
- Implemented a real-time speech-to-text system using early ASR APIs (e.g., Google Speech-to-Text, Kaldi).
- Designed and deployed a web scraping tool to transform unstructured website content into structured datasets.
- Developed a fine-tuning framework for optimizing language models, reducing inference delays and improving contextual accuracy.
- Built automation scripts to evaluate prompt consistency, response relevance, and failure modes.
- Integrated model monitoring tools to track latency, error rates, and usage metrics across deployed endpoints.
- Created lightweight APIs to expose model outputs for frontend evaluation workflows, A/B testing, applications, and research environments.
Frontend Developer
MindTitan OÜ
- Built and maintained responsive enterprise UIs using React, ES6+, and Styled Components, delivering WCAG-compliant dashboards.
- Refactored legacy views into functional components with React Hooks, improving code stability and maintainability.
- Introduced a monorepo structure with Turborepo and Yarn Workspaces, streamlining development and improving code reuse.
- Partnered with designers to implement high-fidelity layouts using Figma, Framer Motion, and Flexbox/Grid, while driving performance gains via Lighthouse audits and observability tools.
Web Developer
Weekdone OÜ
- Developed SEO-optimized real estate platforms using React.js, Next.js, and dynamic routing, improving performance and discoverability.
- Built a recommendation engine prototype using scikit-learn for property suggestions based on user behavior.
- Built RESTful APIs with Express.js and MongoDB, incorporating Python data preprocessing scripts.
- Deployed Flask-based ML microservices on AWS EC2, and used Pandas/Matplotlib to generate internal reporting dashboards.
Summary
Senior AI/ML Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and deploying production-grade AI systems, including LLM applications, real-time ASR, and multi-agent architectures. Proven expertise in model fine-tuning, system optimization, and building end-to-end AI pipelines using tools like LangChain, Deepgram, and OpenAI API.
Focused on delivering scalable, low-latency solutions for language, speech, and vision tasks across cloud-based environments.
Skills
Large Language Models & Nlp: Gpt-4o/4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, Kimik2, Llama 3/4, Qwen 3, Hugging Face Transformers, Spacy, Nltk, Sentencetransformers, Prompt Engineering, Few-shot Learning, Instruction Tuning
Model Fine-tuning & Training: Pytorch, Tensorflow, Jax, Lora, Qlora, Peft, Adapters, Mixed Precision Training, Quantization, Distillation, Model Evaluation (Bleu, Rouge, Perplexity, Hallucination Analysis)
Speech Processing: Whisper, Gpt-4o-transcribe, Deepgram Nova-3, Assemblyai Universal-2, Scribe, Elevenlabs, Openai Tts, Amazon Polly, Coqui, Real-time Asr Pipelines, Voice Agent Design
Vision & Ocr: Vision-language Models (Minigpt-4, Blip-2, Owlv2), Tesseract, Easyocr, Paddleocr, Image Captioning, Document Parsing, Visual Qa
Frameworks & Toolkits: Langchain, Llamaindex, Langflow, Dify, Vllm, N8n, Ray, Airflow, Fastapi, Flask, Onnx Runtime, Mlflow
System Architecture: Agentic Rag, Multi-agent Orchestration, Real-time Voice Agents, Containerized Deployments, Serverless Inference With Aws Lambda And Gcp Functions, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints
Data Engineering & Processing: Pandas, Polars, Spark, Dask, Postgresql, Mongodb, Redis, Pinecone, Weaviate, Firecrawl Api, Beautifulsoup, Scrapy, Prodigy, Label Studio
Cloud & Devops: Aws (Ec2, S3, Lambda), Gcp, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Opentelemetry, Rbac, Audit Logging
Mlops & Evaluation: Mlflow, Dvc, Model Monitoring, Drift Detection, Latency Profiling, Prompt Evaluation Workflows, A/b Testing, Ci/cd Automation For Ml Pipelines
Team Collaboration & Agile: Agile/scrum, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Code Reviews, Pair Programming, Technical Documentation, Mentorship, Design Handoff Collaboration
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Education
University of Tartu
Bachelor’s Degree · Computer Science · Tartu, Estonia
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