WORK
Projects
Private AI, AI agents, and AWS case studies, peer-reviewed publications, and open-source work by Brando Koch.
PROJECT
Organization-Wide Claude Integration
How I helped a company adopt Claude organization-wide: privacy and compliance groundwork, connecting internal systems from one-click connectors to custom MCP servers and browser flows, and training every team to use it.
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GenAI Document Processing
We helped FileAI adopt Generative AI for document processing at scale: LLM and VLM models that lifted OCR and form-filling accuracy on complex multi-language documents, deployed on AWS.
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Private AWS SageMaker Studio Domain
A Terraform module for a SageMaker Studio domain with no internet egress: VPC-only networking, Identity Center authentication, a customer-managed encrypted EFS, and per-user POSIX-isolated storage.
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Private AI Chatbot on AWS
I built an AI website support chatbot for Tellofy: indexing site content and knowledge bases to answer customer questions directly, deployed on AWS with Bedrock.
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Private Speech QA Agent
An agent that transcribes recorded conversations, embeds them, makes them full-text and semantically searchable, and layers a chat agent on top that answers with timestamped references back to the source audio.
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PrivEmbed: private embedding models
An internal project we built to evaluate, deploy, and benchmark self-hosted embedding models against managed ones. Private embeddings are cheap to serve and cheap to reindex, and our internal benchmark confirmed them as a viable foundation for fully private AI.
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Generative AI Enablement on AWS
I partnered with ComeToTheClouds to bring Generative AI to their AWS environment: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation solution on AWS Bedrock.
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German Hospital AWS Landing Zone
Core engineer for the AWS landing zone and on-prem migration of one of the first hospitals in Germany to run its infrastructure entirely on AWS: delivered in pure Terraform (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, monitoring, encryption). Featured as an official AWS case study.
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Enterprise AWS Data Mesh
A multi-account, governed data mesh on AWS for a leading global reinsurer: producer, governance, and consumer accounts with Lake Formation tag-based access control, delivered in Terraform, cutting data-access provisioning from weeks to minutes.
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PrivASR: private speech-to-text
A private, self-hosted speech-to-text engine I built with Whisper, optimized for high-throughput inference with speaker diarization. A queue-driven GPU pipeline on AWS that autoscales to zero when idle, so audio never leaves your account and idle cost is nothing.
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PUBLICATION
One-shot lip-based biometric authentication
Master thesis research published in Image and Vision Computing (2024): extending behavioral features with authentication phrase information.
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Call-center QC Platform
Generative-AI quality control for call-center recordings: speech recognition, speaker diarization, and retrieval-augmented LLMs that answer questions about a call and grade it against configurable criteria.
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PUBLICATION
Vision-based parking slot detection
Automatic parking slot detection and occupancy classification from camera imagery, published in Expert Systems with Applications (2023).
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COMPETITION
FERIT 2022 programming competition (1st place)
Winning solution (1942/2000) to FERIT Osijek 2022 RPSLS competition: an LSTM that predicts the opponent robot next move from the move histories of both players.
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PROJECT
Natural Prosody Text-To-Speech Model
A customizable, natural-sounding text-to-speech model for customer support: voice-cloned by fine-tuning Tacotron2 on a proprietary dataset collected with Prodigy, with prosody realistic down to the in-breath between sentences.
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OPEN SOURCE
Multimodal Emotion Classification PSI:ML7
Multimodal emotion recognition on the MELD dataset, built at the PSI:ML7 machine learning institute: fusing text and audio to recognize emotion in conversation.
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Transformer From Scratch (251 stars)
Full implementation of the original Transformer paper (Vaswani et al., 2017) in PyTorch, written as learning material.
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OPEN SOURCE
PyTorch sequence models
A variety of sequence model architectures implemented from scratch, structured to serve as learning material.
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OPEN SOURCE
Neural Style Transfer paper
Implementation of the neural style transfer paper: transferring artistic style between images with deep networks.
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OPEN SOURCE
Real estate price prediction
End-to-end classical ML project: data collection, feature engineering, and price prediction for real-estate listings.
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