Selected work

ML & AI case studies

Production machine learning in healthcare and beyond: the platforms, pipelines, and products Randolph Schilke has built, how they work, and what they changed. For the full timeline, see the résumé.

ML platform · Platform engineering2026 – Present

Enterprise Hub-and-Spoke MLOps Platform

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, via CuraCor Solutions

Architecting an enterprise hub-and-spoke MLOps platform on AWS CDK: a shared hub, a versioned construct library, and a template that generates ML projects.

Hub changes needed to onboard a new model
0
Human decision point for model promotion
1
AWS regions, with disaster recovery
2
ML platform · MLOps2025 – Present

CarePath AWS MLOps Platform

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, via CuraCor Solutions

Designed and own the AWS CDK platform that trains, promotes, serves, and monitors 37 clinical prediction models across 8 lines of business at Blue Cross NC.

Clinical prediction models in production
37
Lines of business served
8
Stage promotion: dev, stage, prod
3
LLM · Healthcare AI2024 – 2025

VA Clinical Note LLM Pipeline

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, via InnoVet Health

Built the VA's first production LLM pipeline: clinical note processing on Azure Databricks, still in automation with an estimated $5M+ in annual savings.

Production LLM pipeline at the VA
1st
Estimated annual savings
$5M+
Batch inference, still in automation
Daily
Predictive modeling · MLOps2023 – 2025

VA 30-Day Readmission Model

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, via InnoVet Health

Maintained and extended the VA's most mature predictive model, which flags discharged veterans at highest risk of 30-day readmission, with MLflow-based MLOps.

Continuously running ML pipeline in VA history
Longest
Readmission risk window
30-day
Scheduled pipelines: dev and prod
2
Leadership · MLOps2022 – 2023

Mercy MLOps and Real-Time EPIC Models

Mercy, one of the largest U.S. health systems

Led a 10-person data science team and stood up Mercy's first MLOps pipeline on Azure Databricks, including its first real-time models integrated with EPIC.

Senior and lead data scientists led
10
Models put into production
4
Real-time models integrated with EPIC
1st
Edge AI · Robotics · Mobile2025 – 2026

3LYTRA Robot Platform

Schilke App Solutions LLC

Built a robot platform and iOS/Android app: WebRTC remote driving, an on-device LLM on a Jetson Orin Nano, and YOLO object detection on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Live video over WebRTC
30 fps
Two-way push-to-talk audio
16 kHz
App platforms: iOS and Android
2
Computer vision · iOS2023 – Present

BeachBop Shark Tooth AI

Schilke App Solutions LLC

Shipped an iOS app that identifies fossil shark teeth in real time with 18 on-device Core ML classifiers trained on 100,000+ labeled images.

On-device Core ML classifiers
18
Labeled training images
100K+
Species and genera in the gallery
83
NLP · Public health2018 – 2019

Opioid Overdose Surveillance NLP

Florida Department of Health

Applied text mining to EMS clinical notes to sharpen Florida's opioid overdose surveillance, and owned the state's CDC data deliverables for the program.

Public state surveillance reports
7
Presentations to the CDC and national conferences
5
Oral presentations at CSTE 2019
2

Contact

Hiring for ML platform or healthcare AI work?

I'm open to Senior and Staff AI engineering, ML platform, and data science leadership roles, and to healthcare AI consulting. Email is the fastest way to reach me, and I reply personally.

Target roles
Senior or Staff AI Engineer · ML Platform / MLOps Engineer · Data Science Lead
Location
Remote-friendly; based in the Jacksonville, FL area
Work authorization
U.S. citizen
Focus
ML platforms, MLOps, LLMs, and healthcare AI