Juan Manuel Ciro

Building intelligent systems at scale

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Senior AI/ML Engineer with +9 years of experience building agentic AI systems and large-scale ML infrastructure. Currently leading the Agent Composer platform at Contextual AI, transforming RAG pipelines into modular multi-agent systems used in production. Co-author of 14 papers across NeurIPS, ICML, ACL and Nature.

InputContextAgentsOutputs
User InputMulti-modal
OrchestratorAgent Router
MemoryLong-term
KnowledgeRAG · Vectors
Code AgentGeneration
ResearchWeb · APIs
VisionImage Analysis
ReasoningChain of Thought
TextStreaming
CodeExecutable
ImagesGenerated
DataStructured
ActionsTool Calls
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+9 yrs

Engineering Experience

200K+

Monthly Requests Handled

14

Research Publications

99.98%

System Reliability

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Career

Professional Experience

+9 years of experience building production ML systems, from early-stage startups to industry-defining platforms.

Leading the design and development of modular, graph-based agent frameworks for scalable AI composition.

Key Achievements

  • Designed modular, graph-based agent framework using DDD, enabling scalable composition across research and sales teams
  • Operated production agentic systems at scale: 200K+ monthly requests, 99.98% reliability with strict SLAs
  • Migrated orchestration to Temporal, improving evaluation success from 60% to 98% and 10x throughput
  • Built core platform modules (evaluation, query, feedback), accelerating internal developer velocity
PythonNext.jsTypeScriptRedisAgentic AITemporalDDDProduction ML

Tech lead for Dynabench, the collaborative AI evaluation platform used by industry leaders.

Built end-to-end analytics platforms and ML solutions for manufacturing optimization.

Delivered predictive analytics and computer vision solutions for construction management.

Depth by Domain · Toolkit

Technical Expertise & Skills

Agentic AI Platforms

At Contextual AI, I lead the Agent Composer team -- designing modular, graph-based agent frameworks that convert RAG pipelines into scalable, observable distributed systems.

Architecture

Domain-Driven Design with composable agent workflows enabling scalable composition across research, sales, and applied teams.

Orchestration

Temporal-based orchestration improving evaluation success from 60% to 98% with 10x throughput scaling.

Observability

Distributed logging, tracing, and metrics reducing MTTR and enabling data-driven reliability engineering.

Temporal.ioDDDGraphQLgRPCDockerK8s

Programming

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.jsSQL

Distributed Systems & Infra

Temporal.ioDockerKubernetesGCPAWSRedisSSEWebSocket

AI / ML

LLM SystemsRAGAgentic WorkflowsNLPComputer VisionML Infrastructure

Observability

GrafanaKibanaDistributed TracingMetricsReliability Engineering