Ridwan Bello Salahuddeen

Senior AI/ML Engineer with a proven track record of taking AI solutions from rapid prototype to production at scale for global legal organizations. Expert in architecting production-grade RAG pipelines, legal-specific prompt engineering, and AI agent frameworks.

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ML & Data Engineering Specialist

Expert in Large Language Models, Data Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Production AI Systems

LLM Development

Fine-tuning, optimization, and deployment of transformer models for production use cases

RAG Systems

Building scalable retrieval-augmented generation systems with vector databases

Data Engineering

Designing and implementing scalable data pipelines, ETL processes, and data infrastructure

Production AI

Deploying and scaling AI systems with high throughput and low latency

About Me

Professional Summary

Senior AI/ML Engineer with a proven track record of taking AI solutions from rapid prototype to production at scale for global legal organizations. Expert in architecting production-grade RAG pipelines, legal-specific prompt engineering, and AI agent frameworks.

Deep hands-on experience in building reliable, grounded AI systems utilizing knowledge graphs (Neo4j), vector databases, and sophisticated evaluation loops (RAGAS, DeepEval). Passionate about delivering trustworthy AI tools that attorneys rely on every day.

Machine Learning
Data Engineering
Cloud Platforms
ML Infrastructure

Personal Information

Full Name

Ridwan Bello Salahuddeen

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Email

ridzy619@gmail.com

Phone

+1 470-778-1174

Professional Experience

AI/ML Engineer - Legal Document Intelligence

Apple (Contractor)
Feb 2025 – Present
  • Prototype to Production: Prototyping and scaling production-grade AI capabilities for legal document parsing and information extraction, utilizing Gemini 2.5 and optimized schemas.
  • GraphRAG & Retrieval: Architected and optimized a legal RAG solution using hierarchical, hybrid chunking and retrieval strategies, integrating Neo4j (Knowledge Graphs) for improved accuracy and grounding.
  • AI Agent Solutions: Developing a multi-agent pipeline using LangGraph for automated legal document drafting and analysis, integrating disparate legal tools and databases via Model Context Protocol (MCP).
  • Prompt & Context Engineering: Implementing prompt optimization using DSPy and Pydantic for structural validation, ensuring high-fidelity extraction from unstructured legal text.
  • Evaluation & Safety: Built repeatable evaluation and regression-testing loops for RAG systems (gold sets, automated scoring, failure analysis) to measure accuracy, relevance, and safety.
  • System Design: Containerizing and deploying AI services using Docker and FastAPI, implementing robust monitoring, observability, and high security controls.

Co-Founder & Technical Lead

Byte Analytics
August 2022 – Present
  • Led the design and development of system architecture for a scalable financial reconciliation system, directing a team of engineers.
  • Engineered and delivered regulatory International Financial Reporting Standards 9 (IFRS 9) compliance systems for two top banks in Nigeria, managing projects from conception to deployment and stakeholder acceptance.

Senior AI/ML Engineer

BeeKeeperAI (Healthcare) & RigrAI (Video)
Jan 2023 – Feb 2025
  • Scaling & Production: Directed the fine-tuning and production deployment of Llama-based models for summarization, incorporating safety guardrails and PII protection mechanisms; adopted by major LEAs in Europe.
  • Inference Infrastructure: Engineered scalable model serving with FastAPI and Nvidia Triton, optimizing for low-latency video processing; used by Interpol and national police forces in Canada and Denmark.
  • Evaluation Frameworks: Instrumented GCP data pipelines (BigQuery, Dataproc/Spark) for large-scale model evaluation and data quality checks to uphold rigorous reliability standards.
  • PHI Detection: Led the implementation and deployment of a BERT-based token classification model for PHI detection, achieving 97.3% F1 score.

Senior Data Science Engineer

Tribes.ai
Jan 2022 – Nov 2022
  • Led development of core Apache Airflow pipeline templates for auto-generating client-specific pipelines, reducing processing time by 45% and accelerating delivery of data products.
  • Optimized large-scale batch ETL using Spark (Dataproc), BigQuery, and Datastore for improved performance, showcasing experience with distributed data processing.

Enterprise Data Science Engineer

Sterling Bank PLC
Sep 2021 – Jan 2022
  • Led the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of fraud detection models, improving F1-score performance and presenting outcomes to business leaders to inform strategy.
  • Architected and optimized data processing workflows using Azure Synapse and Databricks for production deployment, demonstrating experience with cloud-based data processing.

Data Science Engineer

Access Bank PLC
Mar 2017 – Sep 2021
  • Developed and deployed a real-time transaction monitoring system using anomaly detection models and Spark Streaming, achieving a 46% reduction in the false-negative rate.
  • Drove initiatives for database performance optimization through efficient schema design and indexing on cloud infrastructure (AWS), reducing query latency by 30% and influencing data strategy.

Technical Skills

ML Frameworks

PyTorch 95%
TensorFlow 90%
JAX 85%
NLP (LLMs, Transformers) 92%
Keras 90%
scikit-learn 92%

ML Infrastructure

Model Serving (Triton, FastAPI) 88%
Distributed Training (NCCL) 85%
Pipeline Design 90%
Monitoring & Validation 87%

GPU Acceleration

CUDA 85%
CuDNN 82%
TensorRT 80%

Data Engineering

Apache Airflow 90%
Apache Spark 88%
ETL/ELT Pipelines 92%
Data Warehousing 85%
PostgreSQL 85%
Neo4j 80%
Redis 82%
Apache Kafka 78%

Cloud & DevOps

AWS 90%
Azure 85%
GCP 80%
Kubernetes 82%
Docker 88%
CI/CD 85%

Programming

Python 95%
SQL 90%
R 85%
Java 75%
Shell Script 80%

LLM & AI Agents

LLMs & Agent Frameworks (LangGraph, MCP) 95%
RAG & GraphRAG (Neo4j) 92%
Prompt Engineering (DSPy) 90%
Evaluation (RAGAS, DeepEval) 88%
Fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA) 88%
Vector Databases 85%

Education

Master of Science in Machine Learning

Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI)
2022 – 2024

Specialized in advanced machine learning techniques and applications.

Master of Science in Statistics and Computer Science

Georgia State University
2023 – 2025

Combined statistical methods with advanced computer science applications.

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
2009 – 2014

Foundation in engineering principles with focus on electrical systems.

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist, Data Engineer, and AI Engineer
  • Udacity: Deep Learning Nanodegree, Data Engineering Nanodegree
  • End-to-End ML with TensorFlow on GCP

Projects & Publications

Memoization-Aware Bayesian Optimization for AI Pipelines with Unknown Costs

Published at ICLR 2024, this work presents a novel approach to reducing hyperparameter tuning costs in ML pipelines.

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Pothole Anomaly Detection

Research paper critically appraising approaches for real-time pothole detection in developing nations.

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Deep Learning Model for Potholes Data Augmentation

Exploratory analysis of modified deep learning models for potholes data augmentation at IEEE Conference.

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Hyperparameter Optimization Thesis

Master's Thesis on efficient hyperparameter optimization for large-scale ML systems.

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Hyperparameter Tuning Costs Research

Research on reducing hyperparameter tuning costs in ML, Vision and Language Model Training Pipelines.

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Get In Touch

Contact Information

Email

ridzy619@gmail.com

Phone

+1 470-778-1174

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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