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Rafael Lopes · Production AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.
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I run production AI on infrastructure I built — a 3-node Kubernetes cluster, distributed LLM inference, a RAG pipeline over 60,000+ curated sources — and publish what survives contact with reality. Cross-domain briefs, twice a week.
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