Paul Iusztin

🤖 Senior Machine Learning Engineer • MLOps • Contractor ~ Helping startups engineer production-ready ML/AI systems.

I'm the author of the bestseller LLM Engineer's Handbook, lead instructor of the Agentic AI Engineering course, founding AI Engineer of a San Francisco start-up, and obsessed with making knowledge accessible through AI.

With over 10 years of experience in AI and software and 20 apps shipped, I teach AI Engineering as I wanted to at the beginning of my career. End-to-end. From idea to production. From data collection to deploying, monitoring and evaluation. With a focus on AI principles, software patterns and infrastructure systems that will thrive in a future dominated by AI coding tools.

My ultimate goal is to help other engineers escape PoC purgatory and 10x their AI Engineering skills.

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If you want to become an AI Engineer pro, join Decoding AI for exclusive content on designing, building, and shipping AI software that works: 

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See more:

🌐 Homepage: https://www.pauliusztin.ai
📚 LLM Engineer's Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/LLM-Engineers-Handbook-engineering-production/dp/1836200072/
🤖 Agentic AI Engineering Course: https://academy.towardsai.net/courses/agent-engineering?ref=b3ab31

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✉️ For collabs, contact me at: p.b.iusztin@gmail.com

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

🟡 Scalable ML batch infrastructure for continuous training & inference

The client, a generative AI leader, struggled with manual training and calling their ML models. As a tedious and unscalable process, they needed to automate their ML processes completely and integrate them with their current web platform.

➞ 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 and 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 a modular 𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 that composes the ML model required steps into 3 main batch pipelines that can easily be automated: feature, training, and inference, 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 a 𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝟐-𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬/𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨.
➞ 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 a scalable & cost-effective 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 and 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 on top of AWS ECS & SQS that scales in and out based on the number of jobs, 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬/𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡.
➞ 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 by using good software practices to make the Python module & batch cloud infrastructure flexible and composable.
➞ 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 a 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐂 in ~1 week required to 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 the 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 with one of the 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.

⚫️ Big data ingestion & archiving pipeline

The client wanted to expand its platform features by securely and safely ingesting, preprocessing, and storing TB of data into their platform.

➞ 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 to the 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 and 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of a 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 that supports 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 >𝟓 𝐓𝐁 of data in 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨 in a reliable, fast, and secure way.
➞ 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 a scalable 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 that supports multiple media types (images, videos, audio, 3D objects) and creates small preview files that are cheap to transfer, store and visualize. The 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 are 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 on an affordable storage solution 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟖𝟏%.

I built a system that turns a single idea into a publish-ready technical article.

Here's a mini masterclass on how (so you can copy):

The system consists of 2 parts:
 
• Nova (research agent): exploratory, steerable
• Brown (writing workflow): deterministic, auditable

𝟭) 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗮: 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻)

Goal: ingest context from messy sources, fill gaps, and produce a clean research artifact.

Inputs:
 
• Structured article brief (topic, audience, structure, constraints, candidate sources)

How it runs:
 
• MCP-first design so tools are portable across harness clients
• A prompt exposed as procedural memory to plan and glue all stages
• Tooling focused on ingesting context, not “thinking in tokens”

Core stages:
 
• Pull context from URLs, local files, GitHub repos, YouTube transcripts
• Run multi-round research loops (Perplexity for cited web search)
• Filter for trust and relevance
• Deep scrape the top sources
• Consolidate into a single handoff artifact: research.md

Output:
 
• A curated research document with organized notes and citations, ready for drafting

𝟮) 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻: 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 (𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻)

Goal: turn research into a consistent article, with quality gates and checkpoints.

Why a workflow, not an agent?

Because writing quality demands:
 
• Repeatability
• Checkpoints
• Clear stage boundaries
• Traceability when something is off

How it runs:
 
• LangGraph for stateful orchestration, resumability, and auditability
• Leveraging tools as deterministic workers instead of exposing them to agents

Core stages:
 
• Load context: guideline + research.md + writing profiles
• Generate required assets in parallel (diagrams, images, tables when needed)
• Draft the article
• Run review and rewrite loops (reflection scores, style judge, revision triggers)
• Support human edits without breaking the system’s rules

Outputs:
 
• Final article
• Generated assets + metadata
• Reflection scores and traces (so you debug quality instead of guessing)

Here’s the gist…

If you promise “production-grade writing”, you need exploration for research and durability for execution.

This design choice is the difference between a cool demo and a system you can ship.

Want to learn how to build it out yourself?

We break this down step-by-step in the Agentic AI Engineering course (built with Towards AI, Inc.):

Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/dtxZuZpb

P.S. We’ve opened up another 100 seats for $499. The last batch sold out in under 14 days → get in early to lock in our best offer.

Senior AI Engineer • Founder @ Decoding AI • Author @ LLM Engineer’s Handbook ~ I ship AI products and teach you about the process.

Author of Generative AI Finance paper. Building Data Products using Generative AI, AI, knobs at DataKnobs and HIVE TA Technology, Ex-Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan Chase.

Experience Summary
Feb 2023 - Founder & Chief AI & Data Officer (CAIO) - Dataknobs
May 2022 - Chief Data Science and Technology Officer, Startup(s)
2019 - 2022: Managing Director (Machine Learning and Engineering)
2016-2019 : Data Science Leader at Google.
2004-2016 : Director/Principal at Microsoft
1993-2004 : Architect and engineering lead in consulting companies.

I am building Data products using GenAI and AI.  See my product KREATE - https://kreate.dataknobs.com/

My team includes - Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Full stack developers, data engineers, product managers and architects.

Prior to Dataknobs/startup - I worked as Managing Director for Machine Learning & Engineering. I  built transformative machine learning products, data products and analytics solutions. 

Before joining JP Morgan Chase, I led data science initiatives at Google.  I played a key role in Google Kaggle acquisition and architected how data science competitions can be run on highly confidential data on Google Cloud.

At Microsoft, I worked on Azure ML,   Bing, and SQL Server products.  While working for bing.com I built an Audience intelligence platform for Microsoft. Audience intelligence platform is used for Behavioral Targeting on all Microsoft properties such as bing.com, msn.com, Hotmail, etc. 

I wrote a book on SQL Server and a chapter on machine learning in NOAA book.  

I also have expertise in handling data privacy, governance, differential privacy, cyber security, and applying machine learning for user/audience data. I have certification in handling data privacy and differential privacy.

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