AI/ML Engineer with LLM Integration Expertise

Elijah is a Computer Science student (B.A., CU Denver, May 2026) with 2.5 years of production engineering experience, where they solo-deployed and maintained a Koha library system with 99.9% uptime for 200+ users. They also bring 7 years of prior experience as an RBT working with nonverbal children, which provides deep domain expertise in reinforcement, observation, and pattern recognition, directly applicable to ML. Elijah is proficient in Python (FastAPI, Flask, asyncio, pandas), JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Linux, Docker, Bash, and REST API design. They have strong expertise in LLM integration (Anthropic API, local Ollama), prompt engineering, and agentic workflows, being a daily Claude Code user. Their impressive side project, Aurora, is an autonomous AI artist orchestrating 26 locally-hosted LLMs, featuring persistent memory, dream consolidation, and emotion modeling, with over 1,500 sessions and 38,000+ logged events. Elijah is seeking remote, full-time roles in AI tooling, automation, internal tools, or support engineering, where they can leverage their builder mindset, deep customer empathy, and Python skills to ship end-to-end solutions, comfortable in both queue management and codebase contributions.