Brian T.

Key Skills

Software

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Top Subject Matter

Real-time multimodal video understanding and lip-sync generation

AI safety (computer vision) and AI image generation/editing product engineering

Legal Services & Contract Review

Top Data Types

Video

Image

Text

Document

Top Task Types

Action Recognition

Fine-tuning

Entity (NER) Classification

Freelancer Overview

Lead Developer to Senior Software Engineer - TrueCar. Brings 26+ years of professional experience across legal operations, contract review, compliance, and structured analysis. Core strengths include Internal and Proprietary Tooling. Education includes Bachelor of Science, University of the Pacific (2002). AI-training focus includes data types such as Video, Computer Code, and Programming and labeling workflows including Action Recognition, Fine-tuning, and Named Entity Recognition.

Labeling Experience

Freelance/Open Source (Jan 2019 - Feb 2026), including Galler AI and SafeSchoolz roles

Fine-tuning

Developed and integrated AI-driven capabilities including an AI safety firearms detection workflow and an AI image generation and editing application. Designed and built RESTful APIs and client-side tooling to support asset workflows and model-powered features. Delivered iterative improvements to the systems as part of ongoing product development for external users. • Built firearms detection model (~85% mAP) and alerting workflow for SafeSchoolz • Implemented in-browser AI image generation/editing features with React/TypeScript • Designed and integrated RESTful APIs for AI-powered asset workflows • Supported multimodal user-facing product experiences across web and mobile

2019 - Present

Presence AI — Lead Backend Engineer, AI Pipeline (Apr 2024 - Feb 2026)

VideoAction Recognition

Built and deployed a production-grade multimodal real-time video pipeline for facial landmark detection and downstream lip-sync inference on NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Implemented frame sequencing and WebRTC delivery using LiveKit with observability instrumentation and hardened security controls. Improved model output quality via landmark temporal smoothing and LatentSync model upgrades. • Facial landmark detection for video frames • LatentSync lip-sync inference components (VAE decode, denoising, restoration) • Frame sequencing and real-time streaming via WebRTC/LiveKit • Landmark temporal smoothing and optimized Whisper audio feature extraction via audio stream batching

2024 - 2026

Lead Developer to Senior Software Engineer - TrueCar

ImageEntity (NER) Classification

Led development across vehicle review and white-label platform features as part of the honk.com organization. Supported product vision for social car shopping and contributed to acquisitions and partner integrations. Delivered engineering and operational improvements including deployment reliability, performance, and automation. • Developed full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails and Sinatra integrating Lucene search for faster content retrieval • Drove high-availability deployments on EC2 and Engine Yard • Built a JavaScript client/server event framework (jelly) and contributed to frontend engineering patterns • Authored Chef scripts for server and workstation automation and supported Rails 3 upgrades

2009 - 2012

Education

Work History