Senior Data Scientist / AI Engineer
Farid Maleki
Driving AI Transformation — Conversational AI, Agentic Orchestration, LLMOps
Senior AI Engineer/Data Scientist with 6+ years of experience delivering production AI systems, with a focus on conversational AI backends, agentic orchestration, and LLM-integrated services in regulated and customer-facing environments. Experienced in designing secure, context-aware backend architectures that connect AI agents to core business systems through well-defined APIs, event-driven patterns, and privacy-safe data flows. Background spans fintech-adjacent, healthcare, and telecom domains, with consistent attention to reliability, scalability, and customer trust.

Open to EU relocation
Impact
Measured outcomes, not demos
6 weeks → 30 minutes
Turnaround
95%+
Retrieval accuracy
under 1 hour
MTTR
70%
Latency reduction (3x faster)
Selected Work
Featured projects
Production AI systems shipped in regulated, customer-facing environments.
Career
Recent experience
MCI R&D Center
November 2025 – Present
Senior Data Scientist / AI Engineer
Driving AI transformation in telecommunications through autonomous systems and network intelligence.
- Architected and deployed an on-premise voice-to-voice AI call center agent replacing human operations, with intent detection, knowledge retrieval, and API integration as binding tools
- Built a model pool architecture for ASR, LLM, and TTS with Nginx load balancing — cut latency 70% (3x faster) and raised throughput to 100 concurrent calls
Robin
May 2025 – November 2025
AI Engineer
Built matching, recommendation, and conversational systems for a recruitment platform.
- Designed a CV-to-job matching system on Elasticsearch and Vespa.ai, improving relevance accuracy by 33%
- Built a personalized recommendation system with preference vectors updated from user action data — improved relevant-result discovery up to 50% and preference accuracy up to 70% in the first iteration
Expertise
Core expertise
Top skills
Agentic Systems & Architecture
Conversational & Voice AI
RAG, Search & Recommendations
Reliability, Guardrails & Compliance
LLM Providers
Infrastructure & LLMOps
Development
Data & Analysis
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