AI Engineer — Przemyśl, Poland

Machine intelligence that survives production.

I'm Paweł — an AI engineer with 8+ years of shipping systems for AT&T, NBC Universal, Wasabi, and startups across the US and EU. LLMs, RAG, computer vision — built in Python and Go, deployed on Kubernetes, kept alive in the real world.

pawel — zsh
pawel@void ~ % whoami
AI engineer — LLMs & intelligent systems
pawel@void ~ % ls roles/
ceo@applied-ai/  founder@otherland-labs/
pawel@void ~ % uptime
shipping since 2014 · 0 abandoned deploys
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The model is the easy part. Everything around it is the job.

Most of my career has been spent in the gap between a promising demo and a system someone actually depends on — data pipelines that feed the model, backends that serve it, infrastructure that keeps it up at 3 a.m.

I co-founded Applied AI, where I lead commercial AI deployments as CEO, and I've run Otherland Labs since 2017, delivering AI and engineering work for enterprise clients and government organizations. Before that: speech-to-text at Wasabi, media ML at GrayMeta, nationwide-scale ETL at DIRECTV.

8+
years in production AI & software
2
companies founded & operating
US / EU
enterprise clients served
30%
STT accuracy gain shipped at Wasabi

What I'm building

/01 case study

FormFlow

Multi-brand form administration with AI image-authenticity verification for a major Polish food & beverage group — three independent checks per submitted photo. Designed, built, and deployed end to end at Applied AI.

read the case study →
/02 in development

CityChat

A city guide you talk to — conversational discovery, camera-based landmark search, and a map built for wandering, grounded in curated open data. iOS first.

about the project →
/03 operating

Applied AI

AI engineering company I run with my brother. From infrastructure to intelligence: cloud-native deployments, Go services, custom ML — the full stack, so AI works in production.

appliedai.dev ↗
/04 always on

Homelab AI cluster

A 4-node K3s cluster spanning home and office over a private mesh — GPU workstation serving self-hosted LLMs, embeddings, speech-to-text, and OCR. My personal AI stack runs on hardware I can touch.

k3s · self-hosted inference

Track record

  1. 2025 — now current

    AI Engineer & CEO · Applied AI

    LLM customer-service agents, production RAG pipelines with vector search for enterprise knowledge bases, SaaS NLP products, LLM fine-tuning, and computer-vision quality control. Building the company alongside the systems.

  2. 2024

    Machine Learning Engineer · Wasabi Technologies, Boston

    Optimized multilingual speech-to-text — +30% accuracy, +50% inference speed. Built diarization and LLM summarization pipelines; deployed Gemini, PaliGemma, and Phi-3 for automatic Q&A. Led CV projects: object recognition, OCR, brand detection.

  3. 2023

    Senior Software Engineer · GrayMeta, Los Angeles

    Machine-learning algorithms and Go-based media processing at enterprise scale.

  4. 2022

    Software Engineer · DIRECTV

    Designed and optimized large-scale ETL in Go, deployed across the nationwide U.S. market.

  5. 2019 — 2022

    Software Engineer · Overlooked Inc.

    Microservices Go backend end-to-end; application architecture strategy and development guidelines.

  6. 2017 — now founder

    Founder · Otherland Labs, Przemyśl

    AI/ML and engineering delivery for AT&T/DIRECTV, NBC Universal, and government organizations. Full-stack AI products and Go microservice backends for B2B clients across US and EU markets.

  7. 2014 — 2017

    Freelance Software Developer

    Web and backend work for clients worldwide — JavaScript, Angular, Go.

Tools of the trade

LLMs & AI

  • Gemini · Azure OpenAI
  • PaliGemma · Phi-3 · Whisper
  • RAG · embeddings · vector search
  • Fine-tuning · prompt engineering
  • LangChain · AI agents

ML & data

  • PyTorch · TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn · pandas · NumPy
  • Computer vision · NLP
  • SQL · ETL · big-data pipelines

Engineering

  • Python · Go
  • Kubernetes · Docker
  • CI/CD · cloud-native
  • Microservices in production

Have a system that needs to think?

I'm open to interesting AI engineering problems — through Applied AI for company engagements, or directly.

49.78°N 22.77°E Przemyśl, Poland UTC+1/+2