Co-founder & CTO
- Building something new — details coming soon.
Available for select advisory engagements
Turning complex AI into reliable products
I bridge cutting‑edge AI research with high‑scale production systems. From LLMs to computer vision and voice, I partner with teams to design, evaluate, and ship AI that is correct, safe, and intuitive.
- 10+ years
- AI, product & engineering
- Co‑founder & CTO
- Stealth startup
- Ex‑Mobileye
- ML for autonomous driving
How I help teams
- AI product strategy and roadmapping
- Design of LLM‑powered and agentic systems
- Evaluation, safety and reliability frameworks
- Scaling research into production platforms
About
Bridge‑builder between research, product, and production AI.
Over more than a decade across startups and global companies, I’ve led teams building AI systems in computer vision, conversational AI, and generative models. My focus is on making advanced AI systems behave predictably in the messy constraints of real products: latency, cost, safety, compliance, and user trust.
I enjoy working with founders, product leaders, and technical teams who care about both rigor and velocity-turning ambiguous problems into clear system designs and measurable outcomes.
Recent focus areas
- AI‑assisted formal verification for Web3 and high‑stakes systems
- End‑to‑end conversational AI platforms (LLM, STT, TTS, tooling)
- Evaluation harnesses and data‑centric iteration pipelines
- Scaling teams and processes around AI products
Selected Experience
A track record from early prototypes to production platforms.
Director of AI & Product
- Leading AI systems that automatically detect, prove, and prevent bugs through AI‑driven workflows, formal verification, and smart data‑centric integrations.
- Owning the full lifecycle from problem discovery through system design, evaluation, and deployment.
Head of Technology & Lead Conversational / Gen AI
- Reduced operational costs by 90% via system redesign and automation.
- Scaled research and data teams from early stage to production.
- Architected the generative AI stack, including LLM fine‑tuning, data pipelines, and low‑latency chat systems—shipping production models across LLMs, STT, TTS, and generative vision.
- Built and iterated the first company POC into the flagship MVP.
Machine Learning Researcher & Engineer
- Designed enhancements for pixel‑level semantic and instance segmentation models used in autonomous driving.
- Developed real‑time embedded computer‑vision algorithms and big‑data solutions for ML evaluation at scale.
Founder & CEO (Volunteer)
- Led a 45‑person multidisciplinary volunteer team across research, medicine, engineering, product, and PR.
- Secured IRB approvals and launched web and mobile platforms collecting thousands of clinical samples.
Advisory & Collaboration
Ways we can work together.
AI Product Strategy
Clarify where AI truly moves the needle in your product, and design a roadmap that balances ambition with feasibility, risk, and time‑to‑value.
System & Architecture Reviews
Review or co‑design the architecture of LLM‑powered and multi‑modal systems, from data pipelines and evaluation to safety, observability, and scaling.
Hands‑on Prototyping
Move from slideware to working prototypes: low‑latency chat experiences, AI copilots, or model‑driven products that your team can iterate on.
Team Mentorship & Org Design
Help technical and product leaders set up the right structures for AI work: roles, processes, and culture that sustain velocity without sacrificing rigor.
Expertise
From research prototypes to production platforms.
Leadership & Product
Team leadership, mentoring, and cross‑functional collaboration across engineering, research, and business.
Team leadership
Stakeholder management
Roadmapping
Scrum & execution
Product discovery
Machine Learning
Broad experience across conversational AI, LLMs, computer vision, and audio models.
LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama)
Prompt & system design
Fine‑tuning & LoRA
Conversational AI
Segmentation & detection
ASR / TTS / VAD
Evaluation & metrics
Engineering
Hands‑on with modern AI tooling and infrastructure at scale.
Python
C++
JavaScript
Solidity & Web3
FastAPI
Docker
GCP / AWS / Azure
LangChain
CI/CD
Linux
Contact
Tell me about your team, product, and where AI fits.
Direct contact
For advisory, collaboration, or speaking inquiries, reach out using the details below. Briefly describe your context and what you’d like to explore.
- contact@lerinman.com