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The site you are on: a RAG chatbot answering recruiter questions, with an eval suite that scores retrieval on every commit, gates CI, and publishes its own results.
Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPythonOpenAIRAGFAISSBM25EvalsCI/CD
Available for opportunities
David West
AI Engineer
Building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and software engineering.
6+
Years AI/ML
8+
Years Defense
5
Projects
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David West
AI Engineer
Open
Experience6+ yrs AI/ML · 8+ yrs defense
StackPython · TypeScript · AWS
FocusLLMs · ML · Secure GovTech
Capabilities
Document AIRAGAI EvalsFastAPINext.jsTerraformKubernetesCI/CDIL5 Compliance
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Projects
Selected work
5 projects
Baby Names Explorer
Explorer for 145 years of US baby name data, with pooled LightGBM popularity forecasts, conformal uncertainty bands, and a natural-language SQL chatbot.
Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPythonGroqSQLiteTime SeriesLightGBMData VisualizationCI/CD
Chat with Nietzsche
Streaming RAG chatbot that answers in Nietzsche’s voice, grounded in hybrid search over his complete works with cited passages.
Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPythonGroqRAGFAISSBM25CI/CD
Generate Music with AI
Full-stack app that turns a text prompt into an original track, proxying to the ACE-Step model running on serverless GPUs.
Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPythonModalGPU InferenceGenerative AudioCI/CD
About
Who I am
Background
I'm a Lead Data Scientist recently turned Lead AI Engineer with a background in the defense industry since 2018, building ML systems since 2020 and production full-stack LLM applications since 2025.
My work spans the full AI stack from enterprise Document AI in AWS GovCloud and evaluated RAG pipelines to pooled gradient-boosted time-series forecasting and full-stack web applications.
Having spent my career developing defense systems for the US Army and Air Force, security, precision, and operational reliability are foundational to everything I build.
I bring active Secret clearance and CompTIA Security+ rigor, Infrastructure as Code, and automated CI/CD evaluation gates to every system I deliver.
Capabilities
Languages
PythonTypeScriptRSQLBash
AI / ML
LLMsDocument AIRAGHybrid SearchFAISSBM25Cross-Encoder Re-rankingSentence TransformersPrompt EngineeringLightGBMScikit-LearnTime-Series ForecastingConformal PredictionEvaluation HarnessesOllamaHuggingFace
Frameworks
FastAPINext.jsReactTailwind CSSStreamlit
Cloud / Infra
AWS (GovCloud)TerraformTerragruntKubernetes (EKS)Docker (Chainguard and Iron Bank)GitHub ActionsModalRailwayVercel
APIs
GroqOpenAIAnthropicAWS Bedrock
Contact
Let's connect
I'm open to AI engineering roles, applied ML work, and interesting side projects. Whether you're building something ambitious or just want to talk shop, reach out.