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Gnangze Elie Gildas Traore

AI Systems Engineer

LLM / RAG / Computer Vision

Hsinchu City, Taiwan

About

AI Systems Engineer who turns LLMs, agents, and computer vision models into production software that makes or saves businesses money, with the backend, payments, and DevOps depth to ship the whole system, not just the model. Continuous AI work since 2020, MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (NYCU, GPA 4.22/4.30), two peer-reviewed publications on edge AI, trilingual (English, French, Mandarin), based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

  • 6+ years

    Continuous AI work since 2020

  • MSc EECS

    NYCU, GPA 4.22/4.30

  • 2 papers

    Peer-reviewed, edge AI (IEEE, ACM)

  • 3 languages

    English, French, Mandarin

Experience

  1. Aug 2025 - Present

    AI Engineer

    Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) · Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Applied research institute. UAV computer vision and vision-language model (VLM) workflows, from dataset curation to edge deployment.

    • Built and shipped UAV-focused computer vision and VLM workflows end to end, from dataset curation to model evaluation and deployment.
    • Developed an automated long-tail synthetic data pipeline that generates, validates, and version-tracks augmented samples with a gated, verification-first workflow.
    • Deployed real-time inference services via APIs for internal integration, enabling repeatable evaluation runs and production-style testing.
  2. Apr 2026 - Present

    Lead Engineer (contract)

    Business platform for a consulting firm (independent contract) · Remote

    Full delivery of a multi-module business platform for a paying client, won through a competitive request for proposals. Client details confidential.

    • Designed and built a NestJS + Next.js modular monolith (PostgreSQL, Redis, Prisma) with a plugin-style payment hub integrating mobile money and card aggregators.
    • Implemented granular role-based access control, mandatory two-factor authentication, and a bilingual English/French product with mirrored i18n keys enforced in CI.
    • Set up production operations: Traefik/Caddy routing, Grafana/Prometheus/Loki observability with alerting, WAL-streamed database backups to object storage with rehearsed restore drills.
  3. May 2025 - Present

    Founder, AI Systems Engineer

    CaveMind Labs · Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Own venture: production-grade agentic AI and computer vision services.

    • Built a self-hosted Private Agent Runtime that turns LLM workflows into reliable software: durable state, restart-safe execution, drift-resistant scheduling, real-time streaming via Server-Sent Events, notification routing, and a human acknowledgement (ACK) loop with a full audit trail.
    • Integrated multi-model support (OpenAI and Gemini) behind a model-agnostic layer; used LLM semantic analysis to filter noise, summarize meaningful changes, and classify severity for monitoring use cases.
    • Architected, developed, and deployed a service-oriented image and video restoration application serving multiple Vision Transformer (Uformer) models with VRAM-aware resource management and an intelligent cache (FastAPI backend, Next.js/React frontend, WebSockets, Docker images published on Docker Hub).
  4. May 2025 - Jul 2025

    AI Engineer

    Juxin Digital Technology Co., Ltd. · Taiwan

    • Developed and trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) for advanced low-light image and video enhancement.
    • Optimized models for next-generation, low-latency performance on production hardware.
    • Integrated the enhancement model into a multi-stage vision pipeline feeding a downstream instance segmentation model.
  5. Apr 2024 - May 2025

    Full-Stack Developer and AI Engineer

    InsightMed Diagnostics · Hsinchu, Taiwan

    • Independently architected and developed a full-stack ECG (electrocardiogram) labeling web application with real-time visualization, annotation, database management, and Docker containerization for reproducible deployment.
    • Engineered the backend with Django and Django Channels for WebSocket-based real-time communication; built the interactive front end with Dash (Plotly), HTML, and JavaScript for manual annotation of P-waves, QRS complexes, and other key features.
    • Implemented deep-learning-based automated time-series labeling with continual learning from domain-expert feedback.

Projects

  • CaveMind Labs · Founder, Full-stack engineer

    Self-hosted agent platform that monitors text-only compliance sources (policies, emails, web pages) and turns changes into actionable alerts with a persistent acknowledgement (ACK) loop and audit trail. Built for compliance, privacy, and security consultancies and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness programs.

    • Reliable scheduled monitors, noise-filtered summaries of meaningful changes, escalating reminders until a human acknowledges.
    • Real-time dashboard with task controls (pause, resume, frequency), run history, and notifications.
    • Multi-model (OpenAI and Gemini) behind a model-agnostic layer.
    • FastAPI
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • SQLAlchemy
    • AI agents
    • SSE
  • uformer-hub-service

    May 2025 - Jun 2025

    CaveMind Labs · Architect, Developer

    Production-grade, service-oriented AI application for image and video restoration serving multiple Vision Transformer (Uformer) models.

    • Asynchronous FastAPI backend with dynamic, resource-aware VRAM management and an intelligent cache.
    • Next.js and React frontend with REST and WebSocket integration for real-time streaming, file processing, and system monitoring.
    • Full CI/CD and DevOps pipeline with Docker and Docker Compose; images published to Docker Hub for public use.
    • FastAPI
    • Next.js
    • PyTorch
    • Docker
    • WebSockets
  • content-forge

    Developer

    AI video generation pipeline built on the LTX video model, with a gallery application, job tracking, and object-storage-backed media management.

    • Python
    • LTX video
    • FastAPI
    • Docker
    • Object storage
  • Monocular depth estimation with diffusion models

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

    Replication and fine-tuning of the Marigold model, repurposing diffusion-based image generators for monocular depth estimation (NYCU Advances in 3D Vision).

    • Fine-tuned on synthetic datasets (Hypersim, Virtual KITTI) and real-world data (NYU Depth).
    • Achieved 96.40% Delta1 and 99.78% Delta3 accuracy; documented the synthetic-to-real generalization gap.
    • Diffusion models
    • PyTorch
    • Depth estimation
  • Zero Trust VPS platform stack

    Operator

    Infrastructure-as-code platform on a VPS: Traefik v3 reverse proxy with automatic TLS, Portainer, PostgreSQL, and per-application Cloudflare Tunnels with Cloudflare Access, exposing no public ports.

    • Traefik
    • Docker Compose
    • Cloudflare Tunnel
    • Zero Trust
    • Linux

Skills

AI agents and LLM engineering
  • Agentic systems
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI SDK
  • Gemini SDK
  • Prompt engineering
  • Human-in-the-loop acknowledgement workflows
  • Audit trails
Computer vision and deep learning
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • Vision Transformers (ViT)
  • Vision-Language Models (Qwen-VL, InternVL)
  • Diffusion models
  • YOLO
  • LoRA fine-tuning
Edge AI and model optimization
  • TorchScript
  • ONNX Runtime
  • INT8 quantization
  • NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Nano
  • Coral TPU
  • Raspberry Pi
Backend and full-stack
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • Django and Django Channels
  • NestJS
  • Next.js
  • React
  • REST API design
Payments and e-commerce
  • Payment aggregator integration (mobile money, cards)
  • Checkout and marketplace backends
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Two-factor authentication
  • Internationalization (EN/FR)
  • Shopify
DevOps and infrastructure
  • Docker and Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • Linux
  • Traefik
  • Caddy
  • Cloudflare Tunnel and Zero Trust
  • Grafana, Prometheus, Loki
Classical machine learning and data
  • Bayesian regression
  • Support Vector Machines
  • Kernel K-means
  • Spectral clustering
  • PCA, LDA, t-SNE
  • Genomic data analysis (polygenic risk scores)
Programming languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C
  • C++
  • Fortran 95
  • HTML
  • CSS

Education

  1. Sep 2023 - Jan 2025

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)

    Master of Science (MSc), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    GPA 4.22 / 4.30

    Courses: Advanced Machine Learning, Advances in 3D Vision

  2. Jun 2021

    Tamkang University (TKU)

    Bachelor's degree (with honors)

  3. Dec 2016 - Aug 2017

    Fu Jen Catholic University, Chinese Language Center

    Language program, Mandarin Chinese

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Mandarin Chinese

    Fluent

Publications

  1. An Evaluation of Energy-efficient AI Models for Edge Deployment in 12-lead ECG Classification

    2024 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks, and Satellite (COMNETSAT), 2024

    Co-authored with Prof. Ching-Yao Huang et al.

  2. Design and Development of Energy-efficient Edge AI Models for 12-lead ECG Diagnosis System in Rural Areas

    2024 7th Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC 2024), ACM, 2024

    Co-authored with Prof. Ching-Yao Huang et al.

Awards

  • Honorary Member, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China

    Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, Jun 2021

  • Bachelor's Degree Honors

    Tamkang University (TKU), Jun 2021

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