Robert Clifton Edwards

Rust Systems & ML Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-performance native software and AI data systems. Expert in Rust, C, and C++ interoperability, FFI bridges, and performance-critical systems programming. Experienced designing machine-learning data pipelines, dataset QA systems, and evaluation frameworks used in LLM training workflows. Strong background in compiler toolchains (LLVM/Clang), memory-safe architecture, concurrency, and profiling. Builds AI developer tooling including prompt engineering systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) utilities, and dataset automation pipelines. Remote-first collaborator delivering production-grade infrastructure for AI and systems engineering teams.