Rob Werfelmann
Senior AI Engineer at Credential Network
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Werfelmann is a Senior AI Engineer with 12 years of technical experience and a strong focus on NLP, model engineering, and end-to-end AI workflows. He has led the development and long-term productionization of a custom BERT variant for patent language that powered document similarity and clustering for nearly four years, demonstrating both technical depth and product impact. His background spans academia and industry—Master’s-level research experience at KAUST and applied work across healthcare, insurance, and education clients—where he’s combined prompt engineering, literature extraction, and scalable model deployment. Colleagues know him for prioritizing clarity and maintainability in models so teams can iterate quickly, and for mentoring peers to bridge research and productization. Based in Spokane, WA, he seeks collaborative environments where sophisticated architectures meet real-world constraints like cost and scalability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 4.00, Computer Science, 4.00 at Mt. Hood Community CollegeCalifornia State University, NorthridgeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.71, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.71 at Portland State UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySanta Monica College
German, Arabic
Github Skills (37)
audio9
nlp8
python8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
seq2seq8
pytorch8
llm7
deep-learning7
transformer7
transfer-learning7
speech-recognition6
ai6
bert6
multimodal6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kl0211/pdx-cs-tutors
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 8 months
sign-insignportlandelectronicportland-state-university
kl0211/mtl_exercise
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 days
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