10 machine learning consultants
Machine learning consultants who work for clients on their own account, as freelancers or through their own consultancy, make up this group: six are based in Europe, three in the US and one in India. Their stated work runs from RAG pipelines and vector search to MLOps, model infrastructure and moving prototypes into production, so they suit teams deciding whether to bring in outside ML help and how to scope a first engagement.
Professionals to explore
Albert Vilamala, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Lead AI ML Architect, Data Scientist & Founder · Neosoftia – AI Systems Architecture & Leadership on Demand
As founder of Neosoftia since January 2024, Albert Vilamala, PhD describes hands-on contract and fractional work building and deploying GenAI, vision, NLP and MLOps systems on AWS, from research to production. AI ML Engineer & Consultant at TetraxAI-Ultrafast Renewables M&A (2025) and three OLX Senior Data Scientist roles (2021-2023) fit questions on taking research models into production.
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Aleksandr Kuznetsov
LinkedInExperience: ML Architect & Consultant · Self Employed
Aleksandr Kuznetsov describes designing and implementing scalable, secure AI/ML architectures, with over 10 years across research and industry in healthcare, pharma and life sciences and a specialty in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV) and ML engineering. The current title is ML Architect & Consultant (Self Employed), held since March 2024, alongside Machine Learning Tech Lead at BioAge Labs (2025), Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ooma, Inc. (2024-2025) and Senior Data Scientist at EPAM Systems (2022-2024).
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Brian Timmerman, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Consultant · Freelance
Brian Timmerman, PhD has offered services as a Machine Learning Consultant (Freelance) since January 2024, describing work from large scale pipeline development to small scale analysis. PhD Candidate at New York University Tandon School of Engineering (2018-2024), a Private Research Consultant stint (2023) and PhD Student at Drexel University School of Computer and Information Sciences (2018) make Brian a fit for research-heavy ML and data science questions.
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Drew Dela Cruz
LinkedInExperience: AI & Machine Learning Consultant · Freelance
Drew Dela Cruz went freelance as an AI & Machine Learning Consultant in January 2026 after Accenture, where titles included AI ML Lead (2025), AI ML Engineer (2024), AI ML Engineer - Accenture Federal Services (2021-2024) and AI ML Consultant (2019-2022). Drew cites predictive health models at national labs, visual search infrastructure at Disney and AI-driven automation with $20M in projected annual savings at Accenture.
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Lev G.
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Principal Consultant · Lev Golod Data Science Consulting
Lev G. founded Lev Golod Data Science Consulting in February 2025 and, as Founder & Principal Consultant, describes short- and long-term client engagements spanning machine learning implementation, data infrastructure and applied AI strategy. Point Predictive titles were Vice President of Data Science (2021-2025), Director of Data Science (2020-2021) and Staff Data Scientist (2019-2020), and Lev was Data Scientist at TrueCar, Inc. (2017-2019).
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Luca Cerone
LinkedInExperience: Independent ML & AI Infrastructure Consultant · Luca Cerone
Luca Cerone, an Independent ML & AI Infrastructure Consultant in Barcelona since May 2026, describes 8 years on the gap between ML experimentation and production, including setting up pipelines and containerizing models. Senior Data Scientist at Domestika (2024-2025), Senior Machine Learning Scientist at hackerone hunterdm (2022-2024), Senior Data Scientist at letgo (2017-2022) and Data Scientist at King (2014-2017) back MLOps questions.
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Paul Bridger
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Engineering Consultant · Independent Consultant
Machine Learning Engineering Consultant on an independent basis since July 2020, Paul Bridger is based in London and also lists Machine Learning Advisor and Machine Learning Optimization Lead at WOMBO (2021-2023). Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Dive Tech (2019-2020) and Machine Learning Engineer at Graphyte (2018-2019) round out a career suited to questions on model optimization and ML engineering work.
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Rahul Jha
LinkedInExperience: Independent AI ML Consultant (Freelance) · Independent
Delhi-based Rahul Jha has been an Independent AI ML Consultant (Freelance) since July 2024 and reports delivering 25+ AI/ML projects for global clients, with Top Rated Plus status on UpWork and a specialty in vector search, RAG pipelines and workflow automation. Other titles include Senior Engineer at Nagarro (2023-2024), Data Science Consultant at NEORIS (2022-2023) and Deputy Manager (Data Analytics) at Kotak Mahindra Bank (2020-2022).
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Serhii K.
LinkedInExperience: Independent AI & ML Consultant · Korsunenko
In Serhii K.'s words, the work is crossing the gap between a flashy prototype and a system that runs in production, after 15 years building ML systems. Independent AI & ML Consultant since November 2025, Serhii lists Senior Data Scientist at EPAM Systems (2020-2025), Freelance Data Scientist & Python Developer (2019-2020), Data Scientist at Periodix (2018-2019) and Python Developer at eScore Technologies (2016-2018), and is based in Germany.
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Tomas Heiskanen
LinkedInExperience: Data Science, Machine Learning, AI · Independent Consultant
Tomas Heiskanen, based in Helsinki, has worked as an independent consultant in data science, machine learning and AI since October 2024, after Principal Machine Learning Consultant at Thoughtworks (2022-2024). Fourkind titles were Principal Machine Learning Consultant (2021-2022), Machine Learning Partner (2020-2021) and Artificial Intelligence Consultant (2018-2020), and Tomas cites more than a decade of predictive modeling, including simulation software to reduce animal testing.
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Choose the right perspective
For getting a model out of a notebook and into production, Serhii K., Luca Cerone and Albert Vilamala, PhD describe that move as their focus, and Aleksandr Kuznetsov fits NLP and computer vision work. Rahul Jha fits retrieval and RAG projects, Drew Dela Cruz and Paul Bridger fit ML engineering and optimization, and Lev G. and Tomas Heiskanen, with VP of Data Science and principal consultant titles behind them, fit scoping and strategy; Brian Timmerman, PhD suits research-heavy analysis.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What should a first paid engagement with a machine learning consultant deliver, and how long should it take?
- 02How do you tell whether a problem needs a custom model, a retrieval pipeline on an existing LLM or a simpler statistical method?
- 03What has to be in place for a consultant's model to keep running after the engagement ends?
About this directory
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