Teams at Protagonist

Own and develop production systems across backend services, data infrastructure, AI/LLM workflows, and React/TypeScript applications. Build LLM-powered agents and RAG systems on AWS Bedrock, develop scalable ML and data pipelines, and design PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Kafka, Redis/Celery, and Kubernetes-based architectures. Partner with technical leadership on system design and roadmap decisions while translating customer and analyst needs into reliable software.

Build and operate production machine learning systems focused on multilingual NLP, including entity linking, classification, event extraction, deduplication, and narrative analysis. Develop GPU-accelerated workflows, fine-tune transformer models, and create LLM features such as RAG pipelines and agents on AWS Bedrock. Establish evaluation frameworks, integrate ML services into Django and event-driven platforms, lead technical architecture discussions, and mentor team members.

Lead and execute computational social science and data science work: design ML/NLP models and LLM workflows, clean and visualize text-as-data, build reproducible analytical products, shape product development, present findings to clients, and mentor junior analysts.