Hi, I'm Julian 🚀
System's Engineer(SRE), I love solving problems and building products that just work, find me on X.
https://www.jvev.link/

About

A part from building EKS platforms, I'm interested in AI & ML R&D, mostly for my own amusement, I tweet under @Sentient_Radar - Python for DataScience, AI agents. A bit about me I have a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Master in Information and Communication Technology and AI & ML training, [Helped build startups and worked in financial sector companies as an SRE], and My first ML hackaton.

Work Experience

C

CommBank

July 2013 - Current
Principal Engineer
Modernising and migrating apps to EKS, solving performance and reliability issues, optimising for cost.
N

Ninefold

January 2012 - July 2013
Cloud Engineer
Custom build PaaS platform for Ruby on Rails applications.
N

Nextgen

January 2012 - April 2008
Infrastructure Engineer
P2V and V2V migrations of applications to private cloud, storage and network engineering.

Education

M

MIT IDSS

2023 - 2024
https://eportfolio.mygreatlearning.com/julian-valbuena
W

Wollongong University

2001 - 2002
Master of Information and Communication Technology
U

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

1996 - 2000
Electronic Engineer

Skills

Python for Data Science
Data Analysis
ML Algorithms
LLM tunning
Python
Docker
Kubernetes
SRE
My Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects on my spare time, see below.

Research Agent - Local LLM

I'm trying out a fully local research agent, this agent will research any topic and write down a few paragraphs it has the ability to search the web for information and write about it. It works relatively ok on macbook M3 series.

crewai.js
Node.js
Magic UI
ollama
Codebase

Classification Model

Developed a classification model, performed EDA, build a decision trees and Random Forests

RAG
Python
Google Colab
GPU
PineconeDB
Hackathon Workbook

CrewAI Helper Crew

CrewAI multi-agent research crew, runs locally with ollama

CrewAI
Python
Serper.dev
GPU
CrewAI Helper Crew
Hackathons

I like building things

hackatons and other activities.

  • M

    MIT IDSS

    Remote

    Developed a prediction model to predict customer satisfaction for passengers in the Shinkansen, 1st runner up
Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on X and I will respond whenever possible. I will ignore all soliciting.

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