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Josiah Aviles

Senior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

AlightUniversity of ChicagoChicago, IL5 Years ExperienceSenior Level

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Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.

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Key Strengths

  • owned ML/AI systems end-to-end from design through deployment and monitoring
  • shipped RAG-based search summarization feature with 20% improvement in user feedback scores
  • strong production LLM evaluation mindset using live LLM-as-a-judge scoring
  • iterative prompt optimization with blast-radius analysis and regression evaluation
  • deep search relevance expertise across semantic retrieval, hybrid search, and reranking
  • balanced latency, cost, and quality tradeoffs in production AI systems
  • experience building multi-agent LLM systems with orchestrator and specialized sub-agents
  • applied AI features to business outcomes, including contracts won
  • improved engineering workflow through AI-assisted code review and paved-path service templates

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Experience

Senior AI/ML Software EngineerAlight · Jan 2022 – Present
AI EngineerAI Initiative · Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Software EngineerProject Reclass · Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

Education

University of Chicagobachelor, Philosophy & Computer Science (2022)

Awards

  • CEO Equity Award - Alight (2024)
  • CEO Equity Award - Alight (2025)
  • 1st Place - Alight Company-Wide Hackathon (2025)

Languages

English

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