Jerry Adams Franklin is a Senior AI Engineer at Digital Currency Group, where he architects decentralized AI systems and LLM-powered agents that drive real business impact. His flagship project, VCScout-AI, is an autonomous RAG system that has directly influenced over $450K in venture capital investment decisions by analyzing startup deal flow in real-time.
Jerry specializes in fine-tuning foundation models (Qwen, LLaMA, Phi) using techniques like LoRA, QLoRA, and 4-bit quantization, deploying them across GPU-backed infrastructure on GKE with robust MLOps practices. His work spans VC analysis agents, smart contract security tools, and financial trading signal generators, all built on federated learning frameworks that preserve data privacy while enabling collaborative model training.
Previously at Intel, Jerry optimized TensorFlow's CPU performance, achieving a 400% improvement in convolution operations and earning a Division Achievement Award. He holds a Master's in Data Science from Northeastern University.
A recognized leader in decentralized AI, Jerry has been featured as a Top Performer on the FLock Network, spoken at EthCC Brussels, won multiple hackathons, and led technical workshops at Rochester Institute of Technology. He's passionate about bridging cutting-edge ML research with production systems that deliver measurable outcomes.