Adioz Eshitemi

Full-stack AI engineer with 8 years of experience in backend systems and web applications. Takes AI into production for enterprise clients and owns each system from design to support. Builds tool-using agents that make real and auditable changes.

Trains and distils models on GPU, then serves them on CPU. Believes AI should be as efficient as it is intelligent, so designs resource-aware AI: small, quantized models that meet tight latency budgets without wasted compute. Treats agents as production software, with typed tools, fail-closed guardrails and a named operator behind every change.

Lead Engineer (AI & Backend) at BBR (Big Bold Red Agency) (2025 – Present)

• End-to-end ownership: Own BBRaiN across its Rust inference service, vendor hub, admin console and GPU training pipeline; deployed inside each client's own cloud (VPC).
• Agentic AI in production: Built an admin assistant agent that turns plain-language requests into audited configuration changes through typed write tools.
• AI in the binary: Serve vision, embedding and ranking models from a single Rust service on CPU, with no GPU runtime, within a tight latency budget.
• Guardrails and licensing: Built fail-closed content safety controls, per-feature licensing, and custom security validation tooling in Rust (Offensive Rust methodologies) to prevent adversarial manipulation and unauthorized feature execution.

Junior AI Engineer at Berrijam (2023 – 2025)

• AI integration: Integrated ML models and LLM APIs into Go, Java and Python microservices over REST and gRPC.
• LLM features: Built prompt, retrieval (RAG) and structured-output features for client-facing tools.
• Data preparation: Cleaned, transformed and validated client datasets for modelling and analytics.
• Prototype to production: Turned validated AI prototypes into services with Docker, CI pipelines and monitoring.
• Evaluation and docs: Tested model outputs against baselines and documented APIs.

Fullstack Engineer (Java & Go) at Zone01 (2023 – 2025)

• Service performance: Cut inter-service overhead by 30% by moving services to Golang and gRPC.
• Streaming pipelines: Ran Kafka pipelines with sub-second ingestion for real-time monitoring.
• Team standards: Set code-quality and DevSecOps standards and mentored engineers.

Backend Engineer (Golang & Java) at Upwork (2018 – 2024)

• Real-time systems: Built Golang (REST, WebSockets) and Java Spring Boot backends for international startups.
• Full-stack delivery: Integrated Angular frontends with Go and Java backends through well-documented APIs.
• Reliability: Deployed Dockerized services with auto-scaling and monitoring, holding 99% uptime.

Software Engineering – ALX Africa (2021 – 2024)

Apprentice Mentorship – Zone01 Kisumu (2024 – 2025)