Summary
Aran Smith is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Dublin with a decade of industry experience spanning software engineering, data engineering, QA and robotics research. He currently builds and deploys LLM-based RAG question-answering systems and production ML pipelines on AWS (including Bedrock), while ensuring data privacy and AI Act compliance. Earlier roles saw him design large-scale ETL and reporting frameworks using Glue, Redshift, S3, Airflow and DVC to make experiments reproducible and operational reports reliable. His MSc in Artificial Intelligence is grounded in hands-on robotics research—implementing adaptive algorithms on the R-Hex platform—which complements his production focus and explains his interest in resilient, adaptive ML systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who bridges research and engineering, comfortable moving models from experimentation into compliant, auditable production workflows.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Moyne Community School
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at University of Southampton
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Applications and Software Engineering, 2.1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Applications and Software Engineering, 2.1 at Dublin City University
English, German, German