Eric Melz
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Melz is an AI/ML-focused founder and seasoned software leader with over a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems at companies including LinkedIn, Google-adjacent roles, and Ticketmaster. He currently leads perfin.ai, an AI-first fintech startup that turns fragmented financial data into real-time, personalized insights, and is hands-on with LLM systems, prompt design, and RAG architectures. Previously he led engineering and ML teams to scale high-throughput search, NLP, and data pipelines across startups and enterprise products, combining product strategy with cloud-native architecture. Eric’s recent work includes rigorous model evaluation for coding agents and a cohort-based program to build LLMs from scratch, reflecting uncommon depth in both model critique and production deployment. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a strong academic foundation (USC MS, UCLA BS) with a pragmatic focus on turning research-grade models into user-facing fintech features.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
docker2
snakemake1
middleware1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ericmelz/synutil
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Synology Utilities
Contributions:1 PR, 60 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
ericmelz/XCS224U-Project
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:56 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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