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.

Farid Maleki — portrait photo

Open to EU relocation

Impact

Measured outcomes, not demos

6 weeks → 30 minutes

Turnaround

Eastern Pharmaceutical Group

95%+

Retrieval accuracy

Eastern Pharmaceutical Group

under 1 hour

MTTR

MCI R&D Center

70%

Latency reduction (3x faster)

MCI R&D Center

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

End-to-End AI Solution DesignMulti-Agent Systems ArchitectureProduction RAG SystemsSemantic Matching & RecommendationsVector Search & Hybrid RetrievalProduct DevelopmentModel Context Protocol (MCP)Agentic AI Solutions

Agentic Systems & Architecture

Agentic AI SolutionsMulti-Agent Systems ArchitectureEnd-to-End AI Solution DesignAI System ArchitectureLangGraphLangChainHermes AgentOpenClawTemporal.ioEvent-Driven AI WorkflowsFlowiseAnythingLLMMCP

Conversational & Voice AI

Conversational AIVoice AI (ASR/TTS)On-Premise Voice AgentsIntent DetectionTool / API Binding for Agents

RAG, Search & Recommendations

Production RAG SystemsVector Search & Hybrid RetrievalSemantic Matching & RecommendationsQdrantVespa.aiElasticsearchEmbeddingsSparse VectorsRetrieval Evaluation

Reliability, Guardrails & Compliance

Guardrails & Output ValidationPrivacy-Safe / On-Prem AIPrompt OptimizationCompliance-Grade Document AI

LLM Providers

OpenAIAnthropic (Claude)Google GeminiMistral

Infrastructure & LLMOps

LLMOps & ObservabilityDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaLokiNginxModel Pool ArchitectureGCPAzure

Development

PythonFastAPIDjangoPyTorchHuggingFaceTypeScript

Data & Analysis

Time-Series Anomaly DetectionTime-series analysisETL pipelinesNLPMachine Learning

Get in Touch

Let's build something that ships

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