Open to ML/AI Engineer & Data Scientist roles — SF Bay Area / remote

Hi, I'm Russ.
I build deployable AI systems.

I build practical AI/ML systems across RAG, computer vision, and medical imaging — and turn models into usable software: APIs, evaluation pipelines, Dockerized services, and clean interfaces.

LinkedInGitHub· San Francisco, CA
Rustam Mukhtarov
2
Production-style AI services (Docker + CI)
49
Automated tests passing in CI
1st
Place, Int'l UAV competition
30+
Students supported as a TA
Selected work

Featured projects

A few things I've built recently.

RAG Document Assistant

Jul 2026

0 fabricated facts · 100% abstention on unanswerable questions

Production-style RAG system for domain PDFs: FastAPI, ChromaDB, and Claude with schema-constrained generation. Answers are grounded in per-claim citations and the system abstains when the documents don't contain the answer.

RAGFastAPIChromaDBClaude APIDockerCIEvaluation

Medical Image Classifier API

Jun 2026

94% accuracy / 0.94 macro-F1 on reproducible benchmark

Production-style PyTorch image classification service: shared train/serve preprocessing, FastAPI inference with Grad-CAM explanations, and honest evaluation on a reproducible synthetic benchmark (non-clinical).

PyTorchFastAPIMedical ImagingGrad-CAMDockerCI

DriveShare – App & Website

Jan – May 2025

Two-sided marketplace, web + mobile

Peer-to-peer parking marketplace: homeowners rent driveways; drivers book affordable spots.

Next.jsTailwindPostgreSQLFigma
Toolkit

What I work with

From models and evaluation through APIs, Docker, and CI.

LLM & GenAI

RAG PipelinesClaude APILangChainLlamaIndexHugging FaceChromaDBFAISSPrompt EngineeringFine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA)LLM Evaluation

AI / ML

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnMONAIComputer VisionOpenCVYOLOTransfer Learning3D U-NetGrad-CAM Explainability

Engineering & MLOps

PythonTypeScriptC++SQLFastAPIFlaskNext.jsReactPostgreSQLDockerGitHub Actions (CI)pytestGitLinux

Languages

English (Fluent)Russian (Fluent)Turkish (Fluent)Azerbaijani (Fluent)Spanish (Beginner)

Let's build something people love.

I'm open to ML/AI engineering and data science roles, collaborations, and interesting projects. The fastest way to reach me is email.