Craig Pauga

Craig Pauga

Product manager for computer vision and LLM systems. I have spent the last five years getting models to run on factory lines, and I started out as a software engineer at Rolls-Royce.

Nine years shipping ML products, from an aerospace engineering floor to vision systems that inspect every unit on food and beverage lines, across five industries.

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Currently — ClearQuality at ClearObject, Seattle

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What I do

Products where the model has to meet the real world.

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Ship vision AI to the edge

From model distillation to TensorRT and DeepStream on NVIDIA hardware. I rebuilt a real-time vision platform’s inference engine and took average latency from about 1.1 s to under 300 ms, so it runs on the line, not in the cloud.

Computer visionTensorRTDeepStreamEdge deployment

02

Make LLMs dependable in production

An agentic contract-intelligence platform for a global pharmaceutical client: three-pass extraction and routing that reached 100% field-level accuracy against manually reviewed golden contracts.

LLMsAgentic workflowsEvaluation

03

Lead from research to rollout

I directed 10+ engineers and technical program managers from research through edge production, and grew one product into a platform across manufacturing, food and beverage, civil, and retail.

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Portfolio

Product specs, strategy decks, ROI models, demo videos, and research from AI/ML products I've shipped. Shared by password.

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About

I'm a product manager focused on AI and machine learning, with 9+ years across manufacturing, transportation, and pharmaceuticals. I take computer vision, LLM, and edge-deployed products from research through to production.

I started as a software engineer and project lead at Rolls-Royce before moving into product. I hold a Master of Computer Science in AI and deep learning from Georgia Tech and a Master of Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois, plus PMP and CSPO certifications. I am based in Seattle.

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Experience

Ten years from aerospace engineering to leading AI/ML product, in the order it happened.

  1. Work Mar 2021 – Present

    Senior Product Manager, AI/ML

    ClearObject · Seattle, Washington

    • Rebuilt the inference engine of a real-time vision platform, cutting average latency from about 1.1 s to under 300 ms.
    • Grew the product from scratch into a multi-industry platform spanning manufacturing, food and beverage, civil, and retail.
    • Led inference development for a vision and lidar sensor-fusion safety system deployed with state transportation agencies.
    • Owned an agentic contract-intelligence platform for a global pharmaceutical client, from architecture approvals through adoption.
  2. Education May 2022

    Master of Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    • Specialised in artificial intelligence and deep learning.
  3. Work Mar 2020 – Mar 2021

    Product Owner, Application Technologies

    Moser Consulting · Indianapolis, Indiana

    • Led product for OCR perception models serving the State of Indiana, owning iteration cycles and production deployment across millions of records.
    • Launched new text-recognition capabilities that improved accuracy by 50% against ground truth.
  4. Certification 2018

    PMP and CSPO

    PMI Institute and Scrum Alliance

    • Project Management Professional and Certified Scrum Product Owner.
  5. Education May 2016

    Master of Systems Engineering

    University of Illinois

  6. Work Aug 2014 – Mar 2020

    Software Engineer, Project Lead, Product Lead

    Rolls-Royce · Indianapolis, Indiana

    • Progressed from Agile Product Lead to Technical Project Lead to Software Engineer, directing 15+ engineers.
    • Won the 2017 company-wide award for most value delivered.
    • Built C#, Python, and React systems that cut process times by 75%.
  7. Education May 2014

    Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering

    University of Illinois

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