Sterling, VA · Available for opportunities

Miroslav Mitic

AI Engineer • Python Developer • Data Engineer

Software engineer with 10+ years of experience, focused on building AI-based applications, data platforms, and cloud-native systems. Specialized in LLMs, RAG architecture, AI evaluation frameworks, FastAPI, Python, AWS, Azure, and MLOps, with extensive experience leading engineering teams and delivering scalable solutions across the enterprise, finance, and technology sectors.

Miroslav Mitic

About

Building reliable AI systems, end to end

I'm an AI engineer and backend developer with a decade of experience spanning finance, enterprise, and technology. I focus on turning LLMs into dependable products — building evaluation pipelines, RAG architectures, and document-intelligence systems that hold up in production, backed by cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and Azure.

10+
Years in software engineering
40%
Predictive accuracy gained with RAG-based LLMs
35%
Data-processing efficiency gained on AWS
99%
Uptime on automated CI/CD deployments

Career

Experience

AI Engineer

Vitech · Vienna, VA

Jan 2024 – Present
  • Built an LLM evaluation pipeline for Gemini, Azure OpenAI, and GPT-4 using LangSmith, covering accuracy, schema compliance, and latency.
  • Shipped a FastAPI LLM service with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint across mock and VertexAI Gemini backends.
  • Automated model re-evaluation workflows and refined prompts from failure-case analysis, raising evaluation accuracy.
  • Built an enterprise AI document parser (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images) with hybrid OCR parsing via Azure Document Intelligence and PyMuPDF.

Backend Developer

Dell Technologies · Sunnyvale, CA

Jan 2022 – Dec 2023
  • Designed and optimized RESTful microservices, cutting response times by 30% under high traffic.
  • Built Kafka-based event-driven pipelines for real-time data processing, mentoring 4 junior engineers along the way.
  • Deployed Dockerized services on Kubernetes/AWS, increasing data-processing efficiency by 35%.
  • Led RAG-based LLM predictive modeling, improving accuracy by 40% and cutting project turnaround by 30%.

Senior Python Developer

Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC

Jun 2017 – Dec 2021
  • Built back-end services in Python, Django, and Tornado with RabbitMQ-integrated REST APIs.
  • Built real-time AWS data pipelines with Spark/PySpark, increasing processing speed by 25%.
  • Automated CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, and Docker — 30% faster deploys, 99% uptime.
  • Designed an AWS S3 data lake and deployed ML pipelines in Databricks for financial forecasting.

Software Developer

Idrica · Charlotte, NC

Apr 2011 – Mar 2017
  • Built secure REST APIs for IoT health-monitoring devices streaming real-time data on AWS ECS/Fargate.
  • Applied machine learning to health data, improving predictive insights for operational efficiency.
  • Optimized data workflows, increasing throughput for health-monitoring applications by 20%.

Toolbox

Skills

AI & LLM Engineering

LLM EvaluationRAG ArchitectureLangSmithLangChainPrompt EngineeringAzure OpenAIVertexAI / GeminiGPT-4HuggingFaceDocument Intelligence & OCRMLOps

Backend & APIs

PythonFastAPIDjangoTornadoRESTful APIsKafkaRabbitMQMicroservices

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (S3, ECS, Fargate, CodePipeline)AzureDockerKubernetesJenkinsCI/CDPrometheusELK Stack

Data Engineering

SparkPySparkDatabricksData Lake DesignReal-Time Pipelines

Background

Education & Languages

Washington State University

Master's Degree in Computer Science

2005 – 2008

Languages

  • EnglishNative
  • SpanishC2

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