About
I am a Machine Learning Engineer and Solution Architect with 6+ years creating production models for language, vision, and tabular data. My current focus is end-to-end LLM and VLM applications: retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, tool-using agents with function calling, automated evaluation, and large-scale deployment of fine-tuned open models. Earlier work includes medication adherence analytics at CVS Health, a novel multi-task CNN architecture to segment and classify brain-microscopy images, RoBERTa models to flag COVID-19 outbreaks from news articles, and explainable fraud-risk scoring at JPMorgan Chase.
Currently, I am an Applied Machine Learning Engineer at Fireworks AI in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Machine Learning Engineer & Solution Architect
ML Engineer & Solution Architect with 6+ years of experience in deep-learning (NLP, vision, tabular data) and LLM/VLM apps, including RAG, information extraction, agents, evals, deployment, and monitoring.
- University: Georgia Tech, UMiami
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Degree: B.S., M.S.
- Email: j.miano@outlook.com
- Languages: English, French, Spanish
Skills
Programming Languages
- Python
- Go
- SQL
- MATLAB
- Java
- C
ML & Big Data
- PyTorch
- Transformers
- LlamaIndex
- Scikit-learn
- PySpark
- Dask
Visualization
- Matplotlib
- Seaborn
- Plotly
- Streamlit
- Tableau
- Gradio
Techniques
- Deep Learning
- Agents
- Feature Engineering
- Ensemble Methods
- Unsupervised Learning
- Prompt Engineering
Data Domains
- Natural Language
- Image
- Audio & Speech
- Tabular Data
- Time Series
- Video
DevOps & Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Git
- Azure
- GCP
- AWS
Resume
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Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Machine Learning Specialization
- Graduate Research Assistant at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Coursework in deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning theory
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
May 2018 - May 2020
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- 2nd B.S.
- Coursework in computer science and mathematics
- Specializations in theory and artificial intelligence
Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience
Aug 2012 - May 2016
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
- Minors in Finance and Chemistry
- Research in cellular neuroscience
- Pre-medical track with medical shadowing experience
Research & Internships
Graduate Research Assistant (AI & ML)
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA
- Implemented neural natural language processing models (RoBERTa) to automate COVID-19 outbreak detection using web-scraped news article contents
- Published a paper as first author in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence as part of the 2021 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Conference
Research Assistant (AI & ML)
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Neural Data Science Lab, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
- Engineered a multi-task convolutional neural network for microstructure segmentation and brain area classification of mouse brain x-ray microtomography data
- Presented a joint poster at the Allen Institute BioImage Informatics 2019 Conference (funded with PURA Travel Award)
Software Engineering Summer Intern
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
American Express, Phoenix, AZ
- Trained natural language processing machine learning models using Python to automate incident ticket routing
- Explained summer project and results to VP-level organization (40+ colleagues) during end-of-internship presentation
Work Experience
Applied Machine Learning Engineer
Jun 2025 - Present
Fireworks AI, San Francisco, CA
- Fine-tune and deploy open GenAI models (LLMs, VLMs) for a variety of customer use cases
- Integrate customer feature requests as improvements to the Fireworks AI platform
- Evangelize Fireworks AI by developing technical documentation and tutorials
Senior Machine Learning Engineer → GenAI Lead
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
Superlinear, Brussels, Belgium
- Led a team of 8 GenAI-focused machine learning engineers, which includes career growth mentorship, organizational planning, and project delivery support for a project portfolio valued at €1,000,000+ in yearly revenue
- Coordinated the technical architecture, development, and productionalization of a pharmaceutical client's LLM-based applications, enabling €50,000+ of yearly cost savings via automatic translation and PII detection
- Generated €250,000+ revenue via technical architecture design, proposal crafting, and presentations to key stakeholders
- Developed convolutional autoencoders to denoise barcode images for a project with a retail partner, leading to a 15%+ lift in barcode recognition accuracy
Senior Data Scientist (AI & ML)
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
- Engineered 100+ features for customer authentication risk assessment models, specifically to mitigate digital authentication risk
- Trained ML models to predict fraudulent customer authentication events, balancing customer service experience (false positives) with fraud risk (false negatives)
- Coordinated the explainable AI track for the inaugural 2022 JPMorgan Chase AI Summit, which brought together 10+ speakers and 100+ attendees
Consultant → Senior Consultant
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
CVS Health, Woonsocket, RI
- Developed predictive models to identify patients at risk of non-adherence, enabling targeted outreach programs across 5,000+ CVS stores nationwide, improving medication adherence rates in outcomes-based contracts
- Quality-tested 50+ features for an enterprise-level predictive modeling project in collaboration with stakeholders from several departments
Projects
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Papers
While studying at the Georgia Institute of Technology, I had the opportunity to contribute to 4 published papers and complete a thesis.
Using Event-Based Web-Scraping Methods and Bidirectional Transformers to Characterize COVID-19 Outbreaks in Food Production and Retail Settings
1st Author | 2021
A three-dimensional thalamocortical dataset for characterizing brain heterogeneity
4th Author | 2020
Multi-task learning for neural image classification and segmentation using a 3D/2D contextual U-Net model
Thesis | 1st Author | 2020