Alec Karfonta
Sr Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Raft
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Karfonta is a Sr Principal Machine Learning Engineer with 12+ years building production ML and NLP systems for both commercial and government clients, including DoD, DHS, and USCIS. He designs and ships constrained, air-gapped solutions—such as a single-GPU real-time voice agent and a Graph RAG system combining vector search with auto-constructed knowledge graphs—for demanding operational environments. Alec has led end-to-end projects from serverless ETL and PII matching to dynamic pricing models in healthcare, and is comfortable across cloud (SageMaker, Lambda, Kinesis), on-prem, and embedded stacks. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida, an active TS clearance, and continually sharpens his skills through hands-on personal projects like 3D printing and hardware-focused hobbies that push system-level thinking.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of South FloridaNanodegree Machine Learning, Nanodegree Machine Learning at UdacitySt. Petersburg College
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Github Skills (12)
docker6
docker-compose6
swagger6
keras-neural-networks6
attention-model6
tensorflow5
attention-mechanism5
keras4
deep-learning3
youtube3
chatbot2
monitoring1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alecKarfonta/Libgdx-Projects
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
alecKarfonta/Gridworld
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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