Paul Iusztin
Founding Al Engineer at Decoding AI Magazine
Timișoara, Romania
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Top SchoolPaul Iusztin is a founder, author, and senior AI engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building production-grade AI systems and shipping 20+ apps. He wrote the bestseller LLM Engineer's Handbook and leads the Agentic AI Engineering course, teaching end-to-end AI engineering from data collection to deployment, monitoring, and evaluation. Paul has driven MLOps and infrastructure work across startups and scaleups—optimizing batch pipelines, cutting latency and costs by large margins, and scaling RAG ingestion pipelines from 1.5k to 36k+ documents per hour. His background spans computer vision, real-time recommender systems, and autonomous systems, and he routinely combines deep learning research with pragmatic software patterns like IaC, CI/CD, and modular Python packages. Based in Timișoara, Romania, he builds content and community through Decoding AI to help engineers escape PoC purgatory and 10x their AI engineering skills. An interesting detail: beyond teaching and writing, he consistently focuses on transportable engineering primitives—reusable frameworks and deployment patterns—that make research-ready models reliably work in production.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at Politehnica University of Timisoara
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (85)
transformers10
great-expectations10
huggingface10
mlops10
streamlit10
streaming10
comet-ml10
beam10
pulumi10
llmops10
generative-ai10
fine-tuning10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
cicd10
stock-trading10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
decodingml/articles-code
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 reviews, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year 1 month
iusztinpaul/hands-on-llms
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
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Contributions:12 reviews, 70 PRs, 186 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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