Summary
Joseph Klemen is a Senior AI Engineer with 12 years of experience building practical, auditable AI systems that drive real business outcomes from Indianapolis. He specializes in agentic AI, advanced retrieval-augmented generation, and production-ready tooling that lets models understand tasks, access trustworthy sources, and execute work through well-designed integrations. At Qualia he led teams to ship document-processing and agentic chat tools, created an LLM evaluation framework for high-stakes financial fields, and engineered a skill that compressed a two-week technical design process into two days. His background spans full-stack product delivery, backend microservices in Go/Ruby, and observability tooling that enables conversational incident triage. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic playbooks—covering prompting, tool calling, and rollout management—that turn research-grade capabilities into dependable features. He pairs hands-on engineering and mentoring with a track record of reducing operational risk while accelerating delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree, Computer Science, Masters Degree, Computer Science at Purdue University