Intro
I'm Richie Turiano, a production AI engineer based in Gainesville, Florida. I build and deploy machine learning, LLM, and data systems that hold up at enterprise scale: from NLP and threat-detection pipelines to MLOps infrastructure and full-stack cloud platforms.
Over 5+ years at Cisco's Talos Intelligence and beyond, I've focused on the engineering that turns AI research into reliable, customer-facing software: fine-tuning models, structuring sensitive training data, and shipping services that stay up. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science & Philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Projects
Experience
Data Analytics Engineer
July 2025 - Dec 2025
Louisiana Pacific
Nashville, TN
Engineered Python, Snowflake, and dbt pipelines integrating Salesforce data into a medallion architecture, replacing manual quarterly reporting and saving 40+ hours per cycle through real-time analytics and Tableau dashboards.
Data Analytics Engineer
July 2025 - Dec 2025
Louisiana Pacific
Nashville, TN
Engineered Python, Snowflake, and dbt pipelines integrating Salesforce data into a medallion architecture, replacing manual quarterly reporting and saving 40+ hours per cycle through real-time analytics and Tableau dashboards.
Machine Learning Engineer — NLP & Data Systems
Jan 2022 – May 2025
Cisco Talos
Remote
Developed and fine-tuned NLP and LLM-based classification pipelines (PyTorch, Hugging Face, BERT, LLaMA) that reduced false positives by 20%, and operationalized ML deployment with Kubeflow, MLflow, and Databricks.
Machine Learning Engineer — NLP & Data Systems
Jan 2022 – May 2025
Cisco Talos
Remote
Developed and fine-tuned NLP and LLM-based classification pipelines (PyTorch, Hugging Face, BERT, LLaMA) that reduced false positives by 20%, and operationalized ML deployment with Kubeflow, MLflow, and Databricks.
Machine Learning Engineer — NLP & Data Systems
Jan 2022 – May 2025
Cisco Talos
Remote
Developed and fine-tuned NLP and LLM-based classification pipelines (PyTorch, Hugging Face, BERT, LLaMA) that reduced false positives by 20%, and operationalized ML deployment with Kubeflow, MLflow, and Databricks.
DevOps/Full Stack Software Engineer
Jul 2020 – Jan 2022
Cisco Systems · CX Platform
Remote
Built TypeScript/React dashboards and Python/SQL ETL services that lifted user engagement by 20%, integrating cloud-native infrastructure across Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS for globally distributed teams.
DevOps/Full Stack Software Engineer
Jul 2020 – Jan 2022
Cisco Systems · CX Platform
Remote
Built TypeScript/React dashboards and Python/SQL ETL services that lifted user engagement by 20%, integrating cloud-native infrastructure across Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS for globally distributed teams.
Data Engineering Intern
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
BoostedAI
New York, NY
Built a data pipeline from scratch to ingest and process external FRED economic data using Python APIs and Pandas, delivering clean, analysis-ready datasets for downstream modeling and research workflows.
Data Engineering Intern
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
BoostedAI
New York, NY
Built a data pipeline from scratch to ingest and process external FRED economic data using Python APIs and Pandas, delivering clean, analysis-ready datasets for downstream modeling and research workflows.
Data Engineering Intern
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
BoostedAI
New York, NY
Built a data pipeline from scratch to ingest and process external FRED economic data using Python APIs and Pandas, delivering clean, analysis-ready datasets for downstream modeling and research workflows.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Philosophy
Sep 2016 – May 2020
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Coursework spanned machine learning fundamentals, linear algebra, bioinformatics, and big data systems — including building transformer architectures from scratch based on the "Attention Is All You Need" paper, applied to protein structure prediction in the style of AlphaFold. Complemented by advanced study in AI ethics, philosophy of mind, and the history of democratic thought.
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Sep 2016 – May 2020
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Coursework spanned machine learning fundamentals, linear algebra, bioinformatics, and big data systems — including building transformer architectures from scratch based on the "Attention Is All You Need" paper, applied to protein structure prediction in the style of AlphaFold. Complemented by advanced study in AI ethics, philosophy of mind, and the history of democratic thought.
License & Certification
Generative AI with Large Language Models
Issued 2025
Generative AI with Large Language Models
Issued 2025