Summary
Mauro Small is an Agentic AI Solutions Engineer based in Montreal with eight years of experience building production ML and NLP systems. He specializes in agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation architectures, and turning research-grade models into reliable business tooling across enterprises. His background spans hands-on ML engineering at Scale AI and Cerence—where he trained models that serve hundreds of millions of cars and mentored a team of 13 NLU developers—through to building company-wide AI capabilities at Broccolini. Mauro combines a mechanical engineering foundation from Virginia Tech with strong software and DevOps skills (Docker, CI/CD, Jenkins) to bridge model development and scalable deployment. Notably, he has deep experience evaluating LLM code generation and automating test suites for large-scale agent validation, reflecting a practical focus on model robustness in production. He brings a pragmatic, data-centric approach to solving real business problems with AI while mentoring teams to adopt reproducible ML practices.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech
English, French, Spanish