Ed Velazquez
Lead ML AI Engineer at Better Car People
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEd Velazquez is a Lead ML/AI Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade NLP, ASR, and LLM systems that prioritize cost-efficient inference and real-world ROI. He co-founded and served as CTO of Noted Analytics, where he led engineering and developed end-to-end data pipelines, OCR, HMM-based speech models, and NLU for enterprise transcription and CRM integrations. At Better Car People he engineered edge-deployable, highly quantized extractors and vehicle-specific ASR models that cut latency and manual review substantially, and he routinely combines model quantization, vLLM, and multi-vendor model selection to optimize deployments. A former classical music student and graphic designer, he brings a unique analytical ear to signal and language problems and a long history of hands-on web and data tooling dating back to his teens. He mentors AI startups on production hardening, RAG and agentic pipelines, and hires/builds teams that balance research with shippable systems. Based in New York, he focuses on turning NLP research into scalable products that measurably reduce operational cost.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraphic Design, Graphic Design at Colegio EMD YsatyMLND, Machine Learning, MLND, Machine Learning at UdacityGraphic Design, Classical Music, Graphic Design, Classical Music at Dordt University
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (6)
application-framework10
php10
laravel10
web-application10
foundation10
expressive10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
edantonio505/research_fail_startups
Nov 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 8 months
edantonio505/linkedin_scrape
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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