Maroš Jančo
Senior AI / ML Engineer — production LLM, RAG and agentic systems
Summary
Generalist AI engineer with 10+ years shipping applied ML, NLP and LLM products end-to-end — currently leading prompts, evals, RAG and agentic systems at Upheal. Trained at Imperial College London (BSc Mathematics with Statistics for Finance, First Class) and UCL (MSc Machine Learning). Founder of Lexomat; strong product, customer and design instincts from owning features and a company.
Experience
Upheal· Senior AI Engineer · New York (remote)
Nov 2023 – PresentBest Startup Award. AI clinical-documentation platform for therapists.
- Own prompts, models and quality for AI-generated progress notes (core product) across 250+ documentation sections; shipped 100+ production releases across multiple model generations without quality regression. Mentored new hires; reported AI roadmap and cost trade-offs directly to founders.
- Lowered AI costs by ~50% while improving quality. Built an LLM-as-judge eval framework on Langfuse (datasets, eval runs, trace-level flow debugging) plus an A/B-testing pipeline; used to gate releases, catch regressions and shorten the prompt-iteration cycle.
- Productionised RAG, prompt orchestration and agentic patterns across Gemini, Claude, GPT-* and Llama; benchmarked Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and Anthropic continuously, routing traffic by use case rather than committing to one provider.
- Automated a Claude-Agent-SDK customer-support agent (internal-tool integration, hardened prompts and guardrails).
- Ran LLM observability and MLOps (Langfuse, Grafana, BetterStack, AWS CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vertex AI, Superset); lifted team velocity via Claude Code in daily workflow, improved CI/CD, and internal sessions on modern RAG / prompting / agentic best practices.
ATEN Consult· AI Product Consultant · London
Aug – Oct 2023- Led ideation and planning of an expert-validated knowledge-graph platform; reshaped business model, scope, financials and technical architecture for a successful UK Smart Funding submission after 12 months of prior poor-quality work.
Cervest· Senior Data Scientist · London
Jun 2021 – Jun 2023Global Impact 50 Award 2023. Physical climate risk for enterprise assets.
- Built from scratch the first physical-climate-impact platform assessing combined-hazard damages on assets and portfolios worldwide; shipped a financial-impact model predicting stock-price shocks from adverse climate events.
- Led a global wildfire-damage prediction product end-to-end and built a company → subsidiary → asset framework for SP500 and FTSE100 firms; optimised distributed pipelines over TBs of geospatial, satellite and financial data (PySpark, Databricks, Geopandas, Xarray, k8s).
BNP Paribas· Machine Learning Researcher · London
Jun 2016 – Jun 2021Global investment-bank R&D lab.
- Built a history-augmented collaborative-filtering recommender for client document recommendations (Amazon S3, Spark, Dask); weekly chatbot recommendations save thousands of clients hours of search.
- Designed and shipped an NLP entity-extraction system from scratch — Random Forests, GBT, Kneser-Ney n-gram LMs, Naive Bayes and Word2Vec into one interpretable classifier; later scaled with LSTM- and BERT-based architectures. A dozen+ resulting NER models now automate chat-to-price FX execution worldwide daily.
Selected side projects
Lexomat · lexomat.sk →
Solo-founded AI legal-research chat for Slovak and Czech law, indexing millions of documents; drove product, design, agentic AI flows, pricing, GDPR and infra end-to-end (one contractor on delivery). Stack: Next.js / TypeScript, Python / FastAPI, Supabase + PGroonga, Vertex AI.
Souli · github.com/dzino-app/souli.app →
Open-sourced end-to-end-encrypted AI companion that gamifies personal growth. Privacy-first architecture — chat content encrypted end-to-end, including in transit to and from the model. Full-stack TypeScript + privacy engineering.
PayToEat.sk
Co-founded and ran a food-delivery app (2019); led product, ops and growth across Slovak towns. Pre-AI era; the business still serves customers today in one Slovak town.
Education
- UCL — MSc Machine Learning · 2016–2017
- Imperial College London — BSc (Hons) Mathematics with Statistics for Finance, First Class · 2013–2016
- Databricks Certified ML Associate (2023)
Selected stack
Python · TypeScript · SQL · PyTorch · Scikit-learn · Pandas · LangGraph · LangChain · CrewAI · Smolagents · Claude Code · Claude Agent SDK · Langfuse · LiteLLM · Vertex AI · Gemini API · AWS Bedrock · Anthropic API · MCP · FastAPI · Next.js · Supabase / Postgres (PGroonga) · PySpark · Databricks · Docker · Kubernetes · Grafana · GitHub Actions
Contact: maros@marosjanco.com · LinkedIn · GitHub