Brandon Shurick

Senior Data & Applied Scientist

8+ years of experience transforming ML research into production solutions at enterprise scale. Proven track record of building AI systems serving thousands of users, with expertise in LLM integration, recommendation systems, and production ML infrastructure.

8+
Years at Amazon
80%+
AI Helpfulness Rate
$3.5M
Annual Cost Savings

AI & ML Projects

Production-tested AI systems and research projects demonstrating expertise in LLM integration, ML engineering, and scalable architecture.

Enterprise AI Analytics Platform

2024+Production

Production-scale conversational AI system for data democratization achieving 85% helpfulness rate.

LLM Systems
Anthropic ClaudeOpenSearchRAG Systems+5

LLM Fine-tuning for Domain-Specific AI

2023Research

Conducted LLM fine-tuning research using few-shot prompting for domain-specific AI development, evaluated in internal scientific paper.

AI Architecture
LLM Fine-tuningFew-shot PromptingDomain-specific AI+3

Production Demo: ML Notebook to Deployed Package

2022Open Source

Comprehensive ML production demonstration from notebook to deployed Python package with CI/CD, presented at The Data Science Conference 2022.

Open Source
PythonCI/CDMLOps+4
View on GitHub

Enterprise Content Recommendation Engine

2021Production

Production-scale ML recommender system for personalized business intelligence serving thousands of enterprise leaders.

ML Engineering
LightGBMMachine LearningRecommender Systems+4

Industrial Risk Prediction System

2020Production

Large-scale Spark ML model for operational risk prediction, achieving 8% reduction in high-risk events with multi-million dollar impact.

ML Engineering
Apache SparkMachine LearningRisk Prediction+4

Employee Attrition Prediction & Engagement System

2019Production

Enhanced ML model and full-feature manager engagement website enabling targeted campaigns that increased employment time by 10% across 1M+ fulfillment center population.

ML Engineering
Machine LearningPredictive AnalyticsA/B Testing+4

Professional Experience

8+ years of experience building production ML and AI systems at scale, from research to deployment.

Leading AI/ML systems development for PeopleInsight, serving 30k+ employees with conversational analytics and production ML infrastructure

Key Achievements

  • Architected RAG-based AI system using Anthropic Claude and OpenSearch for 30k+ employees, achieving 20 percentage point helpfulness rate increase
  • Led a multi-agent architecture refactor and ran systematic experiments, quantifying the impact on cost, quality, and response latency across several design alternatives
  • Built rapid prototyping platform enabling team AI feature experimentation, including hackathon development
  • Designed and deployed LightGBM recommender system for personalized HR reports serving thousands of Operations leaders across 20+ lines of business
  • Developed large-scale Spark ML model for warehouse safety risk prediction, achieving 8% reduction in high-risk events ($3.5M savings/year)

Technologies & Tools

PythonTypeScriptAnthropic ClaudeBedrockOpenSearchVector DatabasesRAG SystemsPrompt EngineeringLLM-as-a-JudgeScikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowLightGBMSparkSageMakerAWSCDKLambdaECSS3GlueContainersCI/CDMicroservices

Get In Touch

Let's discuss opportunities in AI systems, ML engineering, or leadership roles. I'm always interested in challenging problems and innovative solutions.

Contact Information

brandon.shurick@gmail.com
Seattle, WA

Areas of Interest

AI Consulting

LLM integration, ML architecture, production AI systems

Speaking

Conferences, meetups, technical workshops

Collaboration

Open source projects, research partnerships

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