Milwaukee, WI · Backend systems and applied AI engineer

Backend infrastructure and Production AI workflows.

Computer Science graduate from Milwaukee School of Engineering specializing in AI and machine learning, with experience designing distributed systems, containerized services, and ML-driven data pipelines. Seeking a software engineering role focused on backend systems or applied AI.

Backend SystemsApplied AIAWS InfrastructureDistributed InferenceData Pipelines
B.S. Computer Science, MSOE
Business Intelligence Intern at MP Systems
Built AWS GPU inference pipeline for music transcription

Candidate Profile

Name
Benjamin Weber
Focus
Backend / Applied AI
Based In
Milwaukee, WI
Graduation
May 2026

Distributed Systems

Queue-driven services, async job orchestration, reliable processing flows.

AWS Infrastructure

ECS, SQS, EC2 GPU workers, containerized deployment, scaling by backlog.

Applied ML

LLM pipelines, multimodal extraction, transformer-based modeling, inference APIs.

Backend Delivery

Python and FastAPI services designed for production-oriented integration.

Selected Work

Distributed Systems, ML application development, and production-minded backend execution.

See GitHub

Project

Music Transcription

Designed and deployed a distributed GPU-based inference system for audio-to-MIDI transcription with asynchronous job processing and reliable result delivery.

Architected an event-driven AWS pipeline with autoscaling GPU workers to balance throughput and cost.

AWS ECSAmazon SQSEC2 GPUDockerFastAPI

Project

Narrative Consistency Checker

Built an LLM-driven pipeline that extracts entities and events from narrative text to support automated consistency analysis.

Converted unstructured paragraphs into structured JSON for downstream graph construction and validation workflows.

PythonLLM APIsSQLiteJSON Pipelines

Project

MoonBoard Route Difficulty Classification

Developed an attention-based Transformer model with the MSOE AI Club to classify MoonBoard climbing routes.

Co-authored a research paper and presented findings at the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium.

PythonTensorFlowNumPyMatplotlib

Experience

Production-facing work at the intersection of automation, data, and AI-assisted systems.

Spring 2025 - Spring 2026

Business Intelligence Intern

MP Systems · Milwaukee, WI

Multimodal LLMsPythonPower BIDAXSQL
  • Developed and deployed a document processing pipeline using multimodal LLMs to extract structured data from unstructured PDF invoices.
  • Automated line-item ingestion, reducing manual processing effort across financial workflows.
  • Built and optimized Power BI dashboards with DAX and SQL to support operational and financial decision-making.

Education

Formal training grounded in practical systems work.

B.S. Computer Science

Milwaukee School of Engineering

Specialization in AI and machine learning

Graduated May 2026
  • Built applied ML and research projects through coursework and MSOE AI Club collaboration.
  • Interested in backend systems, applied AI, and production-oriented software engineering.

Skills

Tooling, ML frameworks, cloud services, and data workflows.

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • TypeScript

Machine Learning

  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD

Data

  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • SQLite
  • Power BI
  • DAX

Tools

  • Git
  • FastAPI
  • Jupyter
  • LLM APIs

Additional Experience

Clubs

Technical Organizations

MSOE AI Club

MAIC

2021 - Present

Society of Software Engineers

SSE

2021 - Present

Work History

Professional Experience Beyond Internships

Library Circulation Assistant

Walter Schroeder Library

August 2024 - Present

Assistant Manager

Ace Hardware

June 2020 - August 2024

Contact

Available for backend software engineering and applied AI roles.

Email is the fastest way to reach me. I am looking for software engineering opportunities where I can contribute to backend infrastructure, distributed systems, or production-oriented AI applications.

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