Herikc Brecher

Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer

Agentic Systems · RAG · LLMOps · Computer Vision

Open to remote roles worldwide · Relocation-ready · Flexible time zones

  • 6 years shipping production AI
  • 500K+ conversations analyzed monthly
  • 1M+ animals classified
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Selected Work

Case studies

Systems I designed and shipped in production. Client names are withheld where the engagement requires it; the engineering is described exactly as built.

Conversation Intelligence at Scale

TELUS Digital

Problem. A contact center generated more than half a million real customer conversations a month. Nobody could read them, so the signal inside them was lost.

Approach. LLM extraction across every conversation, RAG retrieval over Qdrant and Turbopuffer, and deterministic heuristics wherever determinism mattered more than fluency. Parallel execution pipelines with conversation-memory compression kept per-conversation cost viable at that volume.

  • Python
  • GCP
  • BigQuery
  • Vertex AI
  • Qdrant
  • Turbopuffer
  • LangSmith

3x sales conversion · 2x customer retention · 500K+ conversations processed monthly

Agentic Analytics Layer

TELUS Digital

Problem. Analysts needed answers the platform could not anticipate, at a volume no analyst could reach by hand.

Approach. An agentic layer with intent-based routing, sequential tool calling, automatic retry and human-in-the-loop validation on critical outputs. Model quality holds across releases through an evaluation harness built on a 100K+ annotation reference set, human review and production drift monitoring.

  • Vertex AI
  • Gemini
  • LangSmith
  • BigQuery
  • Python

50 daily users · analyses previously impossible at that volume · 100K+ annotation reference set

Livestock Disease Detection

TELUS Digital

Problem. Field diagnosis depended on manual inspection — slow, costly, inconsistent, and performed on imagery nobody controlled.

Approach. A detection-then-classification pipeline, RT-DETR followed by a Vision Transformer, trained for uncontrolled field conditions. A purpose-built annotation platform took engineers out of the labeling loop entirely.

  • PyTorch
  • ViT
  • RT-DETR
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker

1M+ animals classified across 5 categories · 100K+ per month · 3x lower diagnostic cost and turnaround · 12 annotators, 80,000+ images

Offshore Safety Vision

Deloitte · Petrobras offshore safety program

Problem. 20+ offshore oil platforms producing 24+ hours of video a day on low-resolution cameras over limited bandwidth — conditions where purely neural approaches degrade.

Approach. Detection, classification and segmentation models for helicopter and personnel detection, aircraft and worker-role classification, and hazardous-zone segmentation. Where the networks alone failed on degraded video, accuracy was held by combining them with contour analysis, object-geometry heuristics and multi-object tracking.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • YOLO
  • RT-DETR
  • Mask R-CNN
  • UNet
  • ByteTrack
  • OpenCV
  • AWS
  • MLOps
  • CI/CD

Above 80% precision sustained across the fleet · manual video monitoring replaced · incident detection coverage widened

Golf Swing Biomechanics Platform

Independent consulting engagement

Problem. Amateur golfers get feedback that is subjective, delayed, and impossible to compare against a professional reference.

Approach. A GPU pipeline estimates pose across 33 landmarks per frame, classifies the eight swing phases with a fine-tuned Vision Transformer, detects club and ball with RT-DETR, derives 40+ biomechanical metrics per phase, renders an annotated video synced side by side against a professional reference swing, and grounds an LLM coaching chat in that swing's own metrics through RAG.

  • PyTorch
  • MediaPipe
  • ViT
  • RT-DETR
  • FastAPI
  • LangChain
  • Qdrant
  • AWS Lambda
  • SQS
  • RunPod GPU
  • Neon
  • Docker

25–40s end to end per swing, including rendering and upload · 2–4s coaching responses · FP16 quantization: 1.39x faster inference at half the model size, confidence preserved to four decimals

Flux Wallet

Personal product · fluxwallet.com.br

Problem. Finance assistants read your data and stop there. The useful version writes to it — which is also the version that can do real damage.

Approach. A LangGraph agent with 52 tools that call the same service functions the REST API calls, so an agent-created record is indistinguishable from a form-created one. Destructive operations are two-turn: a dry-run summary with row counts and period span, then explicit confirmation. Intent maps conservatively — "I canceled Netflix" pauses future occurrences rather than deleting history. Long-term memory runs on Mem0 over Qdrant, and complexity-based routing sends cheap questions to cheap models.

  • FastAPI
  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • Mem0
  • Qdrant
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Capacitor
  • Cloud Run
  • Neon
  • Vercel

Production SaaS · per-column AES-256-GCM encryption · enforced multi-tenant isolation · 117 backend test suites and 29 end-to-end specs

Personalized Running Coach Agent

A Brazilian fitness-tech client

Problem. A 500+ member running community needed training that adapts to level, phase and question. No static plan does that.

Approach. Five or more specialized agents adapt to runner level, run phase and question type, monitoring smartwatch telemetry live and generating post-run reports on metrics, progression and injury prevention. Each user's questionnaire, prompt and generated plan persist as embeddings, so every new plan is generated with that history as context.

  • FastAPI
  • LangChain
  • ChromaDB
  • OpenAI
  • Docker
  • SOLID
  • Dependency Injection

500+ member community served · 5+ specialized agents · live smartwatch telemetry

Retail Loss Prevention Vision

An unattended retail chain

Problem. Unattended stores lose inventory with no way to reconcile the loss against what actually left the shelf.

Approach. Surveillance footage is ingested off a network share into a message-queue pipeline, then processed by keypoint-based person detection and pose estimation, fine-tuned YOLO product detection, BoT-SORT tracking with re-identification, and video action recognition — associating products to individuals over time through hand-product overlap, temporal consistency and action confidence. Burned-in camera timestamps are recovered by OCR with a vision-model fallback.

  • PyTorch
  • Detectron2
  • YOLO11
  • BoT-SORT
  • SlowFast
  • OpenCV
  • RabbitMQ
  • RunPod GPU
  • Docker

200+ stores · ~20 FPS per stream · 200,000+ annotated product dataset · 70% detection accuracy · in-store monitoring headcount cut

Early & Open-Source Work

Data science projects from 2021, kept public because the notebooks still stand on their own.

What I Build

Capabilities

The systems I am hired to design, ship and keep running in production.

Technical Skills

Stack

The stack I work in daily, grouped the way I actually use it.

Generative AI & Agents

  • Agentic Systems
  • Multi-Agent Orchestration
  • Intent-Based Routing
  • Sequential Routing
  • Tool Calling
  • Human-in-the-Loop Workflows
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • LiteLLM
  • Mem0
  • LangSmith
  • RAG
  • Vector Databases
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Semantic Search

LLM Operations

  • Evaluation against Annotated Reference Sets
  • Human Review
  • Regression Thresholds
  • Drift Monitoring
  • Tracing
  • Token Optimization
  • Inference Cost Optimization

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • AWS Bedrock
  • GCP
  • Vertex AI
  • BigQuery
  • Azure
  • RunPod
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Serverless Architecture
  • GPU Inference Orchestration
  • CI/CD
  • Git

ML Frameworks

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • Scikit-Learn
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Spark
  • OpenCV

Computer Vision

  • Vision Transformer (ViT)
  • RT-DETR
  • YOLO
  • Faster R-CNN
  • Mask R-CNN
  • DINO
  • MediaPipe
  • ByteTrack
  • BoT-SORT
  • Object Detection
  • Segmentation
  • Multi-Object Tracking
  • Contour Analysis

Languages & Backend

  • Python
  • C++
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Node.js
  • React

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • BigQuery
  • Qdrant
  • Turbopuffer
  • ChromaDB
  • Neon
  • ETL Pipelines
  • Power BI
  • Tableau

Architecture

  • Clean Architecture
  • Repository Pattern
  • Factory Pattern
  • Dependency Injection
  • Microservices
  • Distributed Systems
  • Scalable ML Pipelines

Spoken Languages

  • Native
    Portuguese
  • Advanced — C1
    English

Experience

6 years shipping production AI

From rule-based automation into computer vision, then into generative AI and agentic systems — each move earned inside the work rather than by changing job titles.

Experience

TELUS Digital

September, 2025 - Present

Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Remote

  • Lifted sales conversion 3x and doubled customer retention with a generative AI platform analyzing 500K+ real call center conversations a month through LLM extraction, RAG over Qdrant and Turbopuffer, and deterministic heuristics.
  • Shipped an agentic layer for 50 daily users on Vertex AI and Gemini — intent-based routing, sequential tool calling, automatic retry, human-in-the-loop validation — traced in LangSmith.
  • Sustained model quality across releases with an evaluation harness on a 100K+ annotation reference set, human review of critical outputs and production drift monitoring.
  • Kept per-conversation inference cost viable at half a million calls a month with parallel execution pipelines and conversation memory compression on GCP and BigQuery.
  • Cut diagnostic cost and turnaround 3x with a livestock disease detection system that has classified 1M+ animals across 5 categories using ViT and RT-DETR on uncontrolled field imagery.
  • Removed engineering from the training loop with an annotation platform in React, Node.js and PostgreSQL where 12 annotators labeled 80,000+ images.
  • Define system architecture, lead technical workstreams, review code, and work directly with stakeholders across a globally distributed, English-speaking team.

Self-employed

November, 2024 - November, 2025

Independent AI & Machine Learning Consultant · Remote

Contract engagements held concurrently with a full-time role.

  • Cut response time 35% and inference cost 20% with a financial analysis agent for 100+ users, routing each question by complexity through a lightweight model before dispatching to heavier ones via LiteLLM multi-provider routing.
  • Served a 500+ member running community with 5+ specialized agents that adapt to runner level, run phase and question type, monitoring smartwatch telemetry live and generating post-run reports.
  • Built a golf performance agent scoring swing metrics and player performance, staying available for follow-up through persistent memory with Mem0, over combined image and video input.
  • Reached 98% accuracy per swing phase at 5 seconds of GPU inference per video with a biomechanical pipeline of MediaPipe pose estimation, RT-DETR detection and a ViT classifier.
  • Cut token consumption 80% through an image-token optimization scheme on an LLM assistant built on AWS serverless, Neon, Qdrant Cloud and RunPod, scaling to 1,000+ concurrent users.
  • Held 70% detection accuracy across 200+ retail stores with on-demand RunPod GPU pipelines sustaining ~20 FPS per stream over a 200,000+ annotated product dataset with BoT-SORT tracking.
  • Delivered every engagement under Clean Architecture with automated testing, CI/CD and Docker.

Deloitte

April, 2024 - September, 2025

Computer Vision Engineer (Mid-Level III to Senior) · Remote

Promoted from Mid-Level II RPA Developer, then to Senior in 2025.

  • Sustained above 80% precision across 20+ offshore oil platforms processing 24+ hours of video daily on low-resolution cameras with limited bandwidth, as one of the main engineers on Petrobras' offshore safety program.
  • Built detection, classification and segmentation models — YOLO, RT-DETR, ViT, Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, UNet, SVM — for helicopter and personnel detection, aircraft and worker-role classification, and hazardous-zone segmentation.
  • Held accuracy where purely neural approaches failed on degraded video by combining deep learning with contour analysis, object geometry heuristics and ByteTrack multi-object tracking.
  • Replaced manual video monitoring and widened incident detection coverage across the platform fleet with automated safety insights on AWS in Python, with a full MLOps pipeline and CI/CD.
  • Served as technical reference for the team, mentoring engineers on computer vision, deep learning and software engineering practice.

Deloitte

September, 2021 - March, 2024

Mid-Level II RPA Developer · Remote

  • Cut processing time by over 30% automating end-to-end business processes across SAP, legacy systems and web applications with UiPath, working directly with stakeholders on business and compliance requirements.
  • Moved from rule-based automation into applied machine learning and computer vision, earning promotion into the firm's computer vision practice.

BRF

October, 2020 - August, 2021

RPA Developer · Remote

Internship.

  • Cut time per process by over 50% with 5+ UiPath automations covering 50+ manual tasks, reaching 80% automation on selected workflows.
  • Reduced manual data-entry errors by integrating automation flows with REST APIs and web services, and added AI-assisted decision steps to cut manual exception handling.

Education & Certifications

Credentials

Formal training, and the coursework I built on top of it.

Education

Instituto Infnet

Completed March, 2024

Postgraduate Specialization (Lato Sensu) in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Advanced specialization covering neural network architectures, deep learning frameworks, computer vision, MLOps practice and the ethics of deploying AI inside enterprises.

Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI)

Completed December, 2021

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Itajaí, Brazil. Five-year program covering logic, data structures, algorithm optimization and computer architecture, alongside agile methodology and project management.

Certifications

Data Science Academy — Machine Learning Engineer, Artificial Intelligence and Data Scientist career tracks

  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data Fundamentals
  • Big Data Real-Time Analytics with Python and Spark
  • Big Data Analytics with R and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
  • Data Engineering with Hadoop and Spark

Complementary training

  • Advanced Machine Learning
  • Neural Networks with Python
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning — Augmented Random Search
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence — Optimization Algorithms in Python

About

Who you would be hiring

Herikc Brecher, Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer

I build AI systems that survive contact with production. Six years of it — agentic platforms, RAG over real query volume, and computer vision on imagery nobody controls.

Profile

Most of my work sits where a model stops being a notebook result and starts being a system somebody depends on: evaluation harnesses that catch regressions before users do, drift monitoring, human-in-the-loop validation on decisions that carry risk, and inference cost kept low enough that the thing can actually run at volume.

The computer vision half of my career was spent in bad conditions on purpose — low-resolution offshore cameras over limited bandwidth, uncontrolled field imagery, retail surveillance footage. That work taught me the habit I bring to generative AI: assume the clean benchmark lied, and design for the day it does.

  • Name: Herikc Brecher
  • Role: Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer
  • Location: Brazil — open to relocation and remote
  • Languages: Portuguese (Native), English (Advanced C1)

How I work

I define system architecture, lead technical workstreams and review code, and I work directly with stakeholders — gathering requirements, presenting results and resolving problems — across globally distributed, English-speaking teams.

I moved into this field the long way: rule-based automation, then applied machine learning, then computer vision, then generative AI and agentic systems. Every one of those moves was earned inside the work rather than by changing job titles, and each one left me with something the next stage needed.

By the numbers

Impact

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Conversations analyzed monthly

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Animals classified

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Retail stores covered

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Sales conversion lift

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Contact

Open to Senior AI Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer roles — remote worldwide, or relocation. Flexible across time zones.