AI ENGINEER

ENERGY INDUSTRY|GREATER HOUSTON

David Fernandez

David Fernandez

AI ENGINEER

Houston, TX

AI Engineer & Consultant with 5+ years of experience embedding with cross-functional teams to ship production AI systems. Proven track record of translating ambiguous business goals into measurable ROI, specifically within highly regulated sectors like Energy & Commodities. Expert in GenAI, Agentic RAG, and Multi-Agent Orchestration (Core LangGraph Contributor). Skilled in rapid prototyping and hardening systems for production using Python, FastAPI, React, and Cloud-Native infrastructure.

Experience

AI EngineerArchrock | Apr 2026 - Present
FDE (Independent Consultant)Self-Employed | Mar 2024 - Mar 2026
ML EngineerTestMachine | Dec 2022 - Feb 2024
Founder EngineerStealth AI Startup | Feb 2021 - Nov 2022

Education

M.S. Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Colorado Boulder | Expected Aug 2027GPA: 4.0 | Summa Cum Laude

Skills

PyTorchScikit-LearnLSTMGradient-Boosted TreesIsolation ForestTime-Series ModelingAnomaly DetectionClassificationFeature EngineeringModel Serving (FastAPI)A/B TestingExperiment TrackingModel MonitoringDrift DetectionDockerKubernetes (AKS/GKE)Azure MLGCP Vertex AITerraform (IaC)CI/CD PipelinesPythonSQLPySparkPostgreSQLStreaming PipelinesSCADA/Sensor DataLangGraphRAG PipelinesMulti-Agent SystemspgvectorChromaDBComputer VisionQwen2-VLONNX Runtime

Open Source

LangGraph (PR236437, PR239225)Microsoft AutoGen (PR237157)CrewAI (PR234260)LangChainHuggingFace TransformersDSPy (Stanford NLP)LlamaIndexPydanticAIMCPAgnoClaude CodeCursor