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Adam Silva

Hi, my name is

Adam Silva

Architecting Scalable AI & LLM Solutions

I'm an AI Engineer specialising in production-grade machine learning systems, LLM fine-tuning, and RAG pipelines. I build intelligent backends that turn unstructured data into measurable business outcomes.

01.

About Me

I'm an AI Engineer, with 10+ years of experience designing and building intelligent systems — from LLM-powered chatbots and RAG pipelines to agentic automation tools and production web platforms. I've led the full stack from model experimentation to cloud deployment on AWS Bedrock and Azure Foundry.

I founded Estudar TI, an AI training and consulting company in Brazil, where I led a cross-functional team to ship 200+ projects and AI training programmes that reached over 7,000 students.

I'm currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of the Potomac while staying hands-on with the latest developments in LLMs, agentic systems, and GenAI. I'm based in Silver Spring, MD and open to new opportunities in the US.

Technologies I work with:

  • Python
  • LLMs & GenAI
  • RAG & Agentic Systems
  • LangChain / HuggingFace
  • PyTorch / TensorFlow
  • AWS / AWS Bedrock
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Google Cloud / Vertex AI
  • JavaScript / REST APIs
  • Next.js / React
  • SQL / Postgres, MySQL
  • Linux
Adam Silva
02.

Where I've Worked

AI Engineer @ Estudar TI

May 2015 — Oct 2025

  • Designed and implemented AI agents, LLM-powered chatbots, RAG pipelines, and automation tools using LangChain, HuggingFace, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
  • Deployed AI-powered applications on Amazon AWS Cloud, AWS Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry, leveraging managed services to ensure scalability, reliability, and secure integration.
  • Built and maintained production-grade web platforms using Python, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL, ensuring performance, reliability, and security across multiple high-traffic sites.
  • Maintained and enhanced a CRM and chatbot platform built with React, Node.js, and Redis, focusing on performance, scalability, and robust error handling in production.
  • Led a cross-functional team of 4 (design, marketing, sales, and engineering) to ship digital products, online courses, and AI trainings reaching more than 7,000 students.
PythonLangChainHuggingFacePyTorchAWS BedrockAzure AI FoundryReactNode.jsMySQL
04.

Some Projects I've Built

Featured Project

LuminaLLM

A modular fine-tuning framework for adapting Llama 3 and Mistral to domain-specific tasks using QLoRA and PEFT. Achieves 75% VRAM reduction via 4-bit NF4 quantisation, enabling full training runs on a single consumer GPU. Ships with W&B experiment tracking and a benchmarking suite covering perplexity, ROUGE, and LLM-as-judge evaluation.

PythonPyTorchQLoRAPEFTLlama 3MistralHugging FaceW&BCUDA

Featured Project

Nexus RAG

An agentic, production-grade RAG system with hybrid retrieval (ChromaDB vector search + BM25) and cross-encoder re-ranking to cut hallucination rates on enterprise documentation. A LangGraph agent routes each query — answering from the internal knowledge base or falling back to GPT-4 / Claude 3.5 as needed.

PythonLangChainLangGraphFastAPIChromaDBOpenAIAnthropic ClaudeBM25

Featured Project

MLOps Sentinel

A production-ready MLOps template covering the full model lifecycle — from automated training pipelines and model serialisation to a FastAPI inference layer, multi-stage Docker packaging, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and real-time Prometheus metrics for latency and throughput observability.

PythonFastAPIDockerGitHub ActionsPrometheusScikit-learnXGBoostPytest
05.

Open Source Contributions

Selected contributions to open source projects outside my own repositories.

OpenTelemetry / opentelemetry-ecosystem-explorer

Refactored Ecosystem Explorer Automation

About the project

A CNCF-hosted tool that tracks and surfaces the OpenTelemetry ecosystem — monitoring third-party integrations, SDKs, and plugins across hundreds of repositories via automated watchers.

PythonOpenTelemetryRefactoringuvCNCF

What I did

  • Architected watcher-common Python package with 3 shared base classes (VersionDetector, BaseInventoryManager, BaseRepositoryManager)
  • Eliminated ~280 lines of duplicated version detection and git/repository management logic
  • Wired the package as a uv workspace member so each watcher depends on it via { workspace = true }
  • PR merged by OpenTelemetry maintainers into this globally impactful CNCF project

SynapseKit / SynapseKit

Implemented LlamaCppLLM and CloudflareLLM Providers

About the project

An open-source Python framework for building LLM-powered applications with a unified interface across 23+ providers and 38+ tools, designed for easy extensibility.

PythonLLMAsyncIOCloudflareLlamaCPP

What I did

  • Built LlamaCppLLM for on-device GGUF model inference; used asyncio.to_thread() to keep streaming non-blocking
  • Built CloudflareLLM integrating Cloudflare Workers AI via the /ai/run/ REST endpoint with SSE streaming via httpx
  • Contributions part of the release that grew the platform to 23 providers and 38 tools

azapg / FAIR

Built Animated AI Input Components

About the project

An open-source platform for automated student assessment using AI — providing flexible grading pipelines, rubric evaluation, and A/B testing of grading approaches for researchers and educators.

TypeScriptReactCSS HoudiniTailwindshadcn/ui

What I did

  • Built reusable AiInput and AiTextarea components with an animated glowing border effect using CSS Houdini (@property --ai-angle) and a rotating amber-to-cyan gradient
  • Components support ref forwarding, containerClassName, and full accessibility
  • Integrated AiTextarea into the rubrics dialog's 'Generate with AI' section, replacing a redundant inline gradient

24kchengYe / human-skill-tree

Added AI/ML Learning Path Skill

About the project

An AI-powered learning platform that transforms chatbots into structured educational companions using cognitive science principles — covering 800+ subjects across 15 national education systems with 6 AI tutors and multi-agent classroom simulation.

TypeScriptNext.jsMarkdownAI Literacy

What I did

  • Authored a 342-line skill definition (SKILL.md) with a three-layer progression: AI User, AI-Enhanced Worker, and AI Builder
  • Implemented a diagnostic-first, Socratic teaching methodology with spaced repetition checkpoints across each layer
  • Registered the skill in tree-config.ts, wiring prerequisite (k12-mathematics) and downstream edges (data-analysis-stats, tech-career)
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Certifications

07.

Other Projects

A collection of smaller experiments, competition notebooks, and side projects.

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2024YouTube Comment Fetcher
2024WP Comment Responder

08. What's Next?

Get In Touch

I'm currently open to new opportunities — whether it's a full-time AI Engineering role, a consulting engagement, or an interesting collaboration. My inbox is always open.

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