Shea Valentine is a founder and seasoned AI/ML engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems for regulated, high-stakes environments from Paris. He designs and deploys aligned, auditable ML and LLM solutions—bridging technical, legal and executive stakeholders—to meet EU AI Act, GDPR and sector-specific compliance needs. Previously a Principal AI Engineer and Director of Data/AI, he scaled ML platforms, cut build times and automated reporting while leading ethics and fairness initiatives across multinational teams. Shea also builds privacy-first, local AI tooling for research workflows, emphasizing interpretability, persistent context and secure data pipelines. Notably, he combines deep systems engineering (from high-availability APIs to OCR/NLP at scale) with hands-on product leadership and a track record of translating regulatory complexity into deployable architectures.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Bachelor of Arts - BA BSA in Computer Science & Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Bachelor of Arts - BA BSA in Computer Science & Psychology at The Evergreen State College
Contributions:81 commits, 18 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 months
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Shea Valentine - Founder at AI Alignment Solutions