James Franzo

About me

This is a career summary from an AI & Fullstack Engineer with 8+ years of experience building production AI systems. Their background spans:

Deep Learning & AI: CNNs, GANs, transformers, MoE models; computer vision (semantic segmentation, image-to-image translation, HDR fusion); NLP (conversational AI, intent parsing, multilingual models).

Fullstack Engineering: Python, Next.js, MERN, REST APIs, real-time pipelines (Kafka, Flink), cloud (AWS, Alibaba Cloud).

AI-Assisted Development: Heavy daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, Augment Code, UX Pilot for rapid prototyping and production work. Vibe-codes MVPs quickly but emphasizes engineering discipline around architecture and code quality.

Impact: Turned research into production — shipping new LLMs into live platforms, building cross-modal content pipelines, and recommendation systems combining LLMs with real-time data.

Core motivation: build helpful AI products fast, at the level of the best teams.