John Uiterwyk
Software Engineer - Applied AI at Ab Initio Software
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Uiterwyk is a Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI with over a decade of experience building and scaling large-scale data and ML systems across telecommunications, finance, media, and government. He has led AI research and production work at Ab Initio and nbn, delivering distributed fine-tuning of open models, RAG and semantic search solutions, agent systems, and cloud-native time series anomaly detection. His background spans end-to-end platform engineering—from petabyte-scale CI/CD and network telemetry pipelines to mobile diagnostic apps and telco digital twins—demonstrating both deep systems architecture and hands-on implementation. Colleagues rely on him to translate cutting-edge research into operational services using technologies like Kubernetes, Spark, NiFi, Presto, AWS serverless, and Neo4j. He pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a practical record of shipping innovative, productionized AI products that solve mission-critical problems at scale. A subtle strength is his track record of bridging R&D and engineering delivery, turning prototypes into robust, observable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Boston CollegeThe University of MelbourneBachelor of Computer Science, Application Programming, 4.0, Bachelor of Computer Science, Application Programming, 4.0 at RMIT University
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (56)
python10
harness10
agent-framework10
llm10
genai10
pytorch9
amd9
inference9
ai9
image-generation9
gpt9
pydantic9
cuda9
docker8
transformer8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JohnUiterwyk/GeneticVision
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:219 commits in 7 months
JohnUiterwyk/document-search-and-summarisation
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:90 commits in 2 months
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