José Daniel Sarmiento Blanco

AI Engineer & Software Developer

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sobre mí

Results-driven Artificial Intelligence Engineer and Software Developer with 3+ years of experience engineering high-throughput Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. Proven track record optimizing deep learning models in PyTorch and CUDA (reducing latency by 40%), building production conversational AI engines, and scaling distributed microservices in Rust and Python. Expert in translating business requirements into resilient, production-ready AI solutions supported by rigorous CI/CD and cloud-native architecture.

Experiencia laboral

Worldpanel by Numerator

AI and Software Engineer

2025 - Actual

Architected and deployed automated data mining pipelines using Python, .NET, and SQL, ingesting 500K+ consumer market research records daily. Engineered real-time ETL aggregation workflows, reducing data ingestion latency by 35% and accelerating analytics query responsiveness. Optimized complex SQL Server queries and data indexing, cutting backend reporting runtimes by 40% for enterprise dashboards.
AXD.SAS

Developer – Lab X (Multimodal Generative AI)

2025 - 2025

Spearheaded applied research in multimodal generative AI synthesizing language, vision, and speech representations, accelerating prototype iteration cycles by 30%. Constructed bilingual (Spanish/English) conversational agents with NLP, ASR, and TTS pipelines, delivering <250ms end-to-end response latency.
AXD.SAS

Software Developer (R&D) – Advanced Role

2025 - 2025

Designed and deployed computer vision pipelines with YOLOv8, PyTorch, and TensorRT, achieving a 40% reduction in inference latency in production. Fine-tuned Transformer architectures for NLP dialogue and speech synthesis, boosting semantic intent classification accuracy by 18%. Engineered event-driven distributed streaming microservices using Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ, processing 10K+ msg/sec reliably.
AXD.SAS

Software Developer (R&D) – Core Role

2022 - 2025

Developed high-concurrency microservice APIs in Rust (Actix-web) and Python to serve ML models, cutting p99 response times to <50ms. Built production conversational analytics engines using Transformers, spaCy, and NLTK, parsing dialogue logs to extract actionable business insights. Implemented an end-to-end voice conversation pipeline (STT, NLP dialogue management, TTS) supporting 50K+ monthly interactive user sessions. Optimized ML algorithms to achieve a 300% performance improvement; built CI/CD deployment pipelines, cutting developer onboarding by 25%.

Educación

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

2026 - 2028

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering – Decision Support Methods
Universidad Industrial de Santander

2019 - 2025

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
International Labour Organization (ILO)

2023 - 2023

Professional Diploma in Data Analytics

Proyectos

Yolo V10 c++ •

Engineered a modular C++ computer vision application for real-time object detection using YOLOv10 and ONNX Runtime 1.17, achieving 60+ FPS inference with Top-K layer optimizations and custom OpenCV 4.9 tensor manipulation.

C++YOLOv10ONNX RuntimeOpenCVTensorRT
Cifar 10 •

Implemented a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in TensorFlow with custom data augmentation and learning rate scheduling, attaining 91.5% accuracy evaluated across Recall, AUC-ROC, and Categorical Accuracy.

PythonTensorFlowCNNComputer VisionScikit-learn
Kafka-lab •

Engineered distributed streaming pub/sub pipelines in Apache Kafka using C, C++, and Python for high-throughput producers and consumers containerized with Docker Compose.

Apache KafkaC++PythonDockerDistributed Systems
ObjectDetectionApi •

High-performance REST API developed in C++ using Oat++ for real-time object detection in image streams powered by YOLOv8 and OpenCV preprocessing.

C++YOLOv8Oat++OpenCVREST API
Api GateWay •

Built an asynchronous API gateway in Rust using Actix-web supporting HTTP 1.1/2 with reverse proxy and rate limiting for Python and Bun microservices.

RustActix-webMicroservicesPythonDockerNginx
Infrastructure Integration •

Designed and deployed containerized microservices load balanced with Nginx, configuring reverse proxy routing, SSL termination, and production deployment scripts.

NginxLoad BalancerDockerPythonCI/CD

Habilidades

Python
Rust
Cpp
TypeScript
Docker
Git
GitHub
MySQL
Mongo
Node