Principal Applied AI/LLM Orchestration Engineer

Michael Douma is an AI specialist with extensive experience in LLM pipeline orchestration, having managed over 130M API calls across various models. He excels at making complex systems user-friendly, as demonstrated by his #1 trending Hacker News article on multi-word expressions. Currently an AI specialist at the U.S. Treasury, he seeks an applied AI role in a smaller company focused on building developer tools, learning platforms, knowledge products, creative AI, or brain health, particularly where the challenge is making powerful systems accessible. He has led cross-functional teams of 9 to 40, launched Linguabase (a semantic graph with 400K terms and 63M relationships from 130M LLM inferences), and ran a word-game studio funded by a $295K NSF SBIR. His past work includes SpicyNodes (40M users), ProstateCalculator (neural-net health AI, 1.5M patients), and time.gov. He also judges games for IGF, MAGFest, CODiE, and GEE.