Emily Ekdahl
Founding AI Engineer at Deduction.com
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Ekdahl is a Founding AI Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and data platforms that scale from prototypes to customer-facing services. She has repeatedly shipped Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines, multi-agent assistants, and automated AI-driven tooling—like PR reviewers—that cut latency, costs, and time-to-delivery across startups and mid-market companies. Comfortable across the stack, she’s integrated models via AWS Bedrock and OpenAI APIs, built Metaflow/FastAPI-backed ML workflows, and open-sourced developer tooling to simplify containerized analytics. Based in Chicago, she blends product-focused engineering with cross-functional mentorship and a proven track record of accelerating onboarding and operational efficiency. Outside of work she balances long engineering sprints with hiking and yoga alongside her Shiba Inus, a small but telling indicator of disciplined curiosity and persistence.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering at Actualize Coding BootcampAI Specialization Masters of Science Data Science, AI Specialization Masters of Science Data Science at Northwestern University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (51)
alerts9
data-quality9
eda9
data-integrity9
sqlfluff9
pipeline9
pypi9
python8
dvc8
rails8
mvc8
data-modeling8
ruby8
data-profiling8
dbt8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
emekdahl/deliberate_practice
Mar 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:93 pushes, 3 branches, 3 issues in 4 years 10 months
emekdahl/data_science_programming
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:109 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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