Jacob Braswell

Senior AI Solutions Engineer

Arlington, VA

jacob.braswell00@gmail.com|LinkedIn|GitHub

Experience

Seekr — Senior AI Solutions Engineer

January 2026 – Present

  • • Fine-tuning foundation models for domain-specific tasks using PEFT/LoRA, instruction tuning, and custom alignment pipelines
  • • Configuring and maintaining GPU infrastructure for secure, air-gapped Sovereign AI deployments with full data residency control
  • • Designing agentic AI architectures with self-improvement loops and measurable tool-use effectiveness
  • • Building evaluation frameworks for model explainability, behavioral drift detection, and agentic task completion
  • • Optimizing production model serving with vLLM and KServe in cloud-native Kubernetes environments
  • • Automating platform provisioning with Terraform modules and Helm charts for repeatable, auditable deployments

Booz Allen Hamilton — MLOps Engineer

April 2023 – December 2025

  • • Building Generative and Agentic AI solutions
  • • Building multi-cluster MLOps platforms and GitOps workflows on AWS GovCloud
  • • Implementing KServe for scalable inference and Karpenter for resource optimization
  • • Designing Infrastructure-as-Code solutions with Terraform and GitHub Actions

Collibra Inc — MLOps Engineer

December 2021 – April 2023

  • • Built ML pipelines and worked with Kubeflow environments
  • • Created CI/CD pipelines for hundreds of machine learning models using Jenkins
  • • Developed model evaluation monitoring and logging pipelines
  • • Integrated Airflow for ETL pipelines and data processing workflows

SAS Institute — Solutions Architect

July 2019 – December 2021

  • • Created MLOps training environments and deployed Kubernetes at scale
  • • Built cloud-based training environments for hundreds of customers
  • • Implemented cloud governance automation using Cloud Custodian
  • • Used Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos for monitoring Kubernetes workloads

North Carolina State University — Course Manager

April 2019 – July 2021

  • • Managed MBA courses covering Data Driven Managerial Decision Making
  • • Created learning resources using Python, R, and LaTeX

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories — Data Scientist (Capstone)

November 2018 – May 2019

  • • Built CNNs using TensorFlow for topographic fusion image parameter prediction
  • • Deployed GAN and CNN models using Docker containers for VR simulator applications

Education

Brigham Young University — Applied Statistics and Analytics

2015 – 2019

Relevant Coursework: Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Time Series Analysis, MCMC Sampling and Modeling

Technical Skills

Languages

PythonRJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLBash

Cloud Platforms

AWSGCPAzure

ML / AI

LangchainLlamaIndexPyTorchHugging FaceTensorFlowvLLMKServe

Vector Databases

PineconeChromaVespa

Infrastructure

DockerKubernetesTerraformCrossplaneHelmKustomize

DevOps

JenkinsArgoCDFluxCDGitLinux

Web Development

Next.jsReactVueFastAPI

Monitoring

PrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchOpikRagas

Certifications

AWS ML Specialty
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Personal Projects

ChatBom.AI

RAG web application leveraging a large embedded text corpus using Langchain, Next.js, React, and Pinecone for intelligent document querying and conversation.

RoastMyCV

AI-powered resume critiquing tool providing personalized feedback using generative AI, Langchain, Next.js, and React to help job seekers improve their resumes.

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