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Jerome Hardaway is a senior data and AI engineer and engineering leader with twelve years at Vets Who Code. He is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and works remotely.
- Roles
- Senior AI Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, AI Engineering Leader
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Availability
- Open to conversations now
- Current role
- Founder and Executive Director, Vets Who Code, since 2014
- Core skills
- Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, pgvector, SQL, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, data pipelines, RAG, LLM evaluation, AI agents, CI/CD, technical leadership
- Recognition
- Google Developer Expert, GitHub Star, White House honoree
- Service
- United States Air Force veteran, Security Forces, 2004 to 2009
Pick your role
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Senior AI Engineer
Built a production RAG backend alone, and cut LLM grading spread from 5.1 points to 1.2 with a measured eval.
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Senior Data Engineer
Built a pipeline that turns 4,455 military job codes into published career data, with salary figures that name their source.
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AI Engineering Leader
Founded and led an engineering organization for twelve years, and set its standards for AI work: evals, decision records and CI gates.
Proof in three links
- A published LLM eval, with the rounds where it got worse.
- A production AI backend: 388 of 389 commits, 670+ tests.
- An open-source codebase where 310 of the 361 commits in the last 12 months are his.
Contact
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