Ernests Rudzitis

AI Engineer & Applied Researcher

Riga, Latvia.

Experience

Work

Oct 2025 — Present

MikroTik

AI Engineer
  • Build and maintain production AI infrastructure across Linux environments, including containerized services with Docker and Compose, inference-server deployments, and other supporting system configuration.
  • Validate and benchmark inference stacks across models, runtimes, and server configurations to support reliable production deployments.
  • Research, prototype, and evaluate applied AI systems spanning retrieval, agentic workflows, safeguards, classification, and related machine-learning use cases.
  • Collaborate across teams on technical evaluation and integration work spanning AI infrastructure and application systems.

Jan 2026 — Present

Baltrix

AI Researcher & Engineer
  • Research and develop Baltic-focused AI systems spanning language technology, generative systems, and applied machine learning.
  • Develop practical Latvian language infrastructure for segmentation, grammatical correction, punctuation, normalization, and downstream language workflows.
  • Publish technical methodologies and release models, experiments, and applied AI solutions.

Nov 2024 — Oct 2025

Fledge

Software Engineer
Apr 2025 — Oct 2025
  • Led a full-stack modernization of a legacy Progress ABL, OpenEdge, and OData platform to C# ASP.NET and Entity Framework Core, delivering a production-ready backend while maintaining existing authorization and business rules.
  • Built an LLM-assisted transpilation pipeline covering prompt design, context management, and retrieval-augmented generation, reducing manual conversion work.
  • Delivered an agentic workflow prototype for converting the remaining business entities at scale.
  • Implemented and maintained a custom Entity Framework Core provider for OpenEdge.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and contributed to Angular and TypeScript front-end development.
Frontend Developer
Nov 2024 — Apr 2025
  • Developed Angular-based interfaces and integrated them with backend systems.

Mar 2019 — Sep 2023

Freelance

Software Developer
  • Architected and delivered a game-scripting and secure-deployment platform using React, Express, PostgreSQL, and S3.
  • Engineered a security framework with encrypted payloads, cryptographic verification, and anti-tampering measures.
  • Built and scaled the platform to more than 3,000 global users while maintaining consistently high satisfaction over four years.

Education & Credentials

Sep 2022 — Jul 2025

University of Twente

Bachelor of Science in Technical Computer Science

  • Elective in Intelligent Embedded Systems
  • Minor in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence