Aisha Okonkwo

Staff Engineer — ML Infrastructure

Austin, TX · CT

About

ML infra specialist with a track record of taking models from research to reliable production. Worked at OpenAI and Databricks. Now available to help companies build the foundational layer their AI products need.

Highlights

Designed fine-tuning and eval pipeline used by 200+ internal teams at OpenAI
Reduced model serving costs 55% by migrating to custom inference stack on AWS
Built streaming data platform ingesting 1TB/day for real-time model feedback loops

Skills

ML InfrastructureAgentic SystemsData EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Previously at

OpenAIDatabricksPalantir

Availability

Available now

Rate

$240–280/hr

Experience

9 years

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