Christopher Lopez
Christopher Lopez

Senior AI / ML Software Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 22 Jul 2026
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Location
San Antonio, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a backend engineer with 12 years of experience building Java and Spring Boot services on Azure, and in recent years I have focused on AI platform infrastructure, including LLM inference hosting, vector search, and observability tooling.

I have led production work on AI-backed systems, from architecture through deployment and on-call ownership. I enjoy turning ambiguous business needs into reliable, well-instrumented services that can operate at scale.

My background includes building Python and Java backend services, designing RAG pipelines, and creating ingestion and embedding workflows that process large volumes of data efficiently. I care deeply about performance, reliability, and measurable quality improvements.

I am comfortable working across product, operations, ML, and security stakeholders. I have helped translate requirements into production roadmaps and have mentored less experienced engineers along the way.

A consistent theme in my work is test-driven development and incremental delivery. I like building systems with strong regression coverage, clear observability, and practical guardrails for safety and compliance.

I am especially interested in roles where I can continue building AI infrastructure, search/retrieval systems, and backend platforms that support customer-facing products at scale.

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Working toolkit

Analytics

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Experience

Career history

Senior Software Engineer (AI / ML Systems) Databricks

Led development of production LLM-based features using Python backend services, integrating model inference, retrieval, and ranking into customer-facing applications. Designed and implemented RAG pipelines combining vector search, metadata filtering, and hybrid retrieval. Built scalable ingestion and embedding pipelines, integrated LLM APIs, established evaluation and regression pipelines, and owned reliability, monitoring, and cost governance for AI-backed services.

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer (ML-Assisted Search) Elastic

Developed Python and Java backend services supporting ML-assisted search and NLP-driven relevance. Designed hybrid retrieval systems, built data ingestion and enrichment pipelines, automated indexing and validation workflows, optimized query latency, and helped operationalize experimental NLP models into production features.

Software Developer (Full-Stack & Data Foundations) Algolia

Built Python- and Java-based backend services for data ingestion, indexing, and analytics. Developed automation scripts and background jobs, implemented information retrieval and ranking logic, built internal tools and dashboards, owned production support, and contributed early vector-based similarity features.

Education

Learning history

University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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