CROSS-LAYER ENGINEERING EXPERTISE

Expertise from AI models to hardware, networks, and production systems.

OPTIME combines AI engineering with C/C++ and Rust systems development, accelerated computing, embedded Linux, telecom, video and audio, networking, security, applications, and high-performance infrastructure.

We engineer the layers between a model and a dependable production system - from data and applications to inference runtimes, accelerators, devices, protocols, infrastructure, evaluation, and operations.

One engineering team across models, compute, applications, media, devices, networks, and infrastructure.

ONE CONNECTED ENGINEERING SYSTEM

Models: Language, vision, speech, audio, and document intelligence

  1. Models: Language, vision, speech, audio, and document intelligence
  2. Systems: Applications, data, evaluation, routing, and secure workflows
  3. Compute: Runtimes, accelerators, devices, networks, and infrastructure
  4. Operations: Observability, reliability, privacy, performance, and cost

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Expertise built in production.

Today’s AI work extends an engineering history shaped by real hardware, live media, devices, telecom networks, and systems that had to remain operable after launch.

  1. 2012

    Hardware-accelerated media efficiency

    Before OPTIME was founded, its technical leadership developed Intel GPU-accelerated Full HD transcoding focused on stream density, CPU use, power, and hardware cost.

  2. 2017+

    OPTIME systems engineering

    Telecom, embedded, media, networking, infrastructure, and performance-sensitive production systems.

  3. 2018

    Machine learning in telecom and IPTV

    Customer-behavior analysis across internet and IPTV services.

  4. 2021-22

    Edge-AI acceleration

    Specialist engagements connecting models to constrained devices and hardware-aware execution.

  5. Today

    Production AI

    Private AI, multimodal systems, optimized inference, accelerated computing, evaluation, and production operations.

THE COMPLETE PRODUCTION STACK

Our work begins where a model API ends.

A basic implementation may connect OCR, a general-purpose model, and a web interface. Production systems often require specialized models, deterministic logic, secure applications, hardware-aware inference, evaluation, observability, and operational control to work as one architecture.

Multimodal systems combine text, documents, images, video, speech, audio, or operational data. Multi-model systems coordinate several specialized models through routing, cascades, verification, and deterministic logic.

  1. Business applications and operational workflows

    Interfaces, decisions, review paths, automation, and the people responsible for outcomes.

  2. Data, documents, knowledge, and integrations

    Structured and unstructured information, enterprise systems, retrieval sources, and governed data access.

  3. Language, vision, speech, audio, and multimodal models

    The specialized models required for text, documents, images, video, voice, audio, and operational data.

  4. Model routing, retrieval, evaluation, and orchestration

    Multi-model selection, cascades, confidence checks, deterministic rules, verification, and human review.

  5. Inference runtimes and performance optimization

    Serving, batching, caching, quantization, memory management, profiling, latency, and throughput.

  6. CPU, GPU, NPU, FPGA, edge, and private infrastructure

    Target-aware deployment across heterogeneous compute, constrained devices, private environments, and data centers.

  7. Security, networking, observability, and operations

    Controlled data paths, identity and access, monitoring, availability, auditability, and operational ownership.

Not every system needs every layer. OPTIME engineers and optimizes the layers the production environment actually requires.

AI ACROSS INDUSTRIES

The engineering approach is cross-industry.

Production constraints differ by industry, but the underlying challenge is similar: combine the correct models, data, applications, infrastructure, security boundaries, and operational controls into one dependable system.The same architecture and optimization disciplines apply whether the system analyzes financial documents, supports regulated enterprise workflows, processes live video, operates on edge hardware, or assists telecom and media operations.

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Financial services, banking, and insurance

  • Private and on-premises AI
  • Document and transaction intelligence
  • Fraud, risk, compliance, and operational workflows
  • Controlled data access
  • Auditable model-assisted decisions

SIX PRINCIPAL EXPERTISE DOMAINS

Depth across the layers production systems depend on.

These domains remain valuable independently. Their greatest advantage appears when a difficult system crosses several of them at once.

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AI Systems and Optimized Inference

Engineer language, vision, speech, document, and multimodal AI as evaluated, optimized production systems rather than isolated model integrations.

Production evidence includes telecom and IPTV customer-behavior machine learning from 2018, public-safety computer vision, intelligent broadcast workflows, edge-AI acceleration, and current private and multimodal AI systems.

  • LLMs and SLMs
  • Vision-language and multimodal models
  • Computer vision
  • Speech recognition, transcription, translation, and audio AI
  • OCR and document-layout processing
  • Model selection, benchmarking, fine-tuning, and domain adaptation
  • Quantization, distillation, and compression
  • Multi-model routing, cascades, and confidence scoring
  • Retrieval, knowledge integration, bounded agents, and RAG
  • Batching, caching, memory optimization, and inference serving
  • Private, on-premises, hybrid, and edge deployment
  • Production evaluation, monitoring, and human review

RARE ENGINEERING COMBINATIONS

The difficult systems sit between disciplines.

OPTIME’s differentiation is the ability to connect disciplines that are often split across model, application, infrastructure, device, media, and operations teams.

Multi-Model AI + Enterprise and Financial Workflows

Combine documents, OCR, layout understanding, language models, retrieval, classification, rules, verification, and human approval into controlled operational systems.

AI + Accelerated Computing

Optimize models and pipelines across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and FPGAs for latency, throughput, memory, capacity, power, and infrastructure cost.

AI + Video, Audio, and Broadcasting

Combine vision, speech, multimodal models, codecs, streaming, WebRTC, OTT, set-top-box, and broadcast workflows.

AI + Telecom and Private Networks

Apply AI architecture to communications intelligence, traffic analytics, anomaly detection, capacity planning, voice systems, and private mobile infrastructure.

AI + Embedded and Edge Devices

Deploy secure, resource-aware inference on cameras, sensors, gateways, appliances, vehicles, and intermittently connected devices.

AI + Security and Private Infrastructure

Build on-premises and hybrid AI with controlled data paths, access policies, auditability, private networking, evaluation, and operational ownership.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Core technologies first. Supporting tools in context.

Technologies are grouped by the role they play in production systems, with core engineering capabilities shown first.

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Core Technologies

Languages and systems programming

Systems, application, and model-platform engineering across native performance paths, services, tooling, and product interfaces.

  • C
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Python
  • Assembly
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
View Consulting and Architecture

AI Models and Architectures

Model architectures engineered for production use

Select, adapt, combine, evaluate, and optimize model architectures for production workloads.

  • LLMs
  • SLMs
  • Vision-language models
  • Multimodal models
  • Dense transformers
  • Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models
  • Embedding and reranking models
  • Classification models
  • Speech and audio models
  • OCR and document-layout models
  • Computer-vision models
  • LoRA and adapters
  • Quantization
  • Distillation
  • Pruning
  • Speculative decoding
  • KV-cache optimization
  • Continuous batching
  • Paged attention
  • Tensor parallelism
  • Pipeline parallelism
  • Data parallelism
  • Context parallelism
  • Expert parallelism
View Production AI Systems Engineering

AI Inference and Serving

Serving paths matched to scale, latency, and deployment boundaries

Engineer distributed serving, native runtimes, and edge inference around throughput, memory, hardware, privacy, and operational requirements.

High-throughput and distributed serving

  • vLLM
  • SGLang
  • TensorRT-LLM
  • NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

Local, edge, and native inference

  • llama.cpp
  • Ollama
  • CTranslate2
  • ONNX Runtime
  • TensorRT
  • OpenVINO
  • OpenVINO GenAI
View Accelerated ComputingView Private AI Infrastructure

GPU and Heterogeneous Computing

Accelerated computing across vendor and hardware boundaries

Optimize inference and data pipelines for the processor, memory hierarchy, capacity, latency, and deployment environment they actually run on.

NVIDIA

  • CUDA
  • cuDNN
  • TensorRT
  • TensorRT-LLM
  • NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
  • NVIDIA DeepStream SDK
  • Jetson
  • NVENC
  • NVDEC
  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

AMD

  • ROCm
  • HIP
  • MIGraphX
  • AMD GPU Operator
  • AMD Instinct

Intel

  • oneAPI
  • SYCL / DPC++
  • oneDNN
  • OpenVINO
  • OpenVINO GenAI
  • Intel CPU, GPU, and NPU inference

Cross-platform and specialized

  • ONNX Runtime
  • OpenCL
  • Vulkan Compute
  • FPGA
  • SIMD
  • AVX/AVX2/AVX-512
  • ARM NEON
  • Zero-copy processing
  • Hardware-specific optimization

Production Platforms and Systems

Retrieval, vector search, and knowledge systems

Custom vector-search, hybrid-retrieval, indexing, reranking, caching, and knowledge-retrieval pipelines designed around the application’s accuracy, latency, scale, and data-control requirements.

  • FAISS
  • Qdrant
  • Milvus
  • pgvector
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis Vector Search
  • Dense retrieval
  • Sparse retrieval
  • Hybrid search
  • Reranking
  • Metadata filtering
  • Multi-vector retrieval
  • Multimodal retrieval
  • Semantic caching
  • Customized indexing and retrieval pipelines
View Enterprise Knowledge and Document Intelligence

On-premises AI and platform engineering

Operate controlled AI platforms with private serving, accelerator scheduling, resilient deployment, monitoring, and recovery practices.

  • Docker
  • NVIDIA GPU Operator
  • AMD GPU Operator
  • GPU scheduling
  • Private model serving
  • Model registries
  • Private container registries
  • Air-gapped deployment
  • High availability
  • Cluster monitoring
  • Capacity monitoring
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Backup and disaster recovery

Private cloud, virtualization, and storage

  • OpenStack
  • KVM
  • QEMU
  • libvirt
  • KubeVirt
  • Proxmox VE
  • Ceph
  • MinIO
  • Open vSwitch
  • OVN
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • containerd
View Private AI Infrastructure

Security and identity

Protect model, data, application, and infrastructure boundaries with explicit identity, access, encryption, audit, and network controls.

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • OAuth 2.0
  • OpenID Connect
  • mTLS
  • PKI and certificate management
  • Secrets management
  • Encryption
  • RBAC
  • ABAC
  • Audit logging
  • Network segmentation
  • Air-gapped infrastructure
View Private AI Platforms

Messaging and distributed systems

Connect real-time services, devices, applications, and model pipelines with appropriate messaging and typed service interfaces.

  • Redis
  • Redis Streams
  • NATS
  • RabbitMQ
  • AMQP
  • Apache Kafka
  • ZeroMQ
  • MQTT
  • gRPC
  • WebSockets
  • REST
  • Protobuf
Read the DataMesh Case Study

Media, communications, and computer vision

Build low-latency video, audio, communications, broadcast, and vision pipelines from capture and transport through processing and inference.

Frameworks and processing

  • GStreamer
  • NVIDIA DeepStream SDK
  • OpenCV
  • FFmpeg
  • libWebRTC
  • mediasoup
  • Kurento

Video codecs - established

  • MPEG-2 Video
  • H.263
  • H.264 / AVC
  • H.265 / HEVC
  • VP8
  • VP9

Video codecs - modern and next-generation

  • AV1
  • AV2
  • H.266 / VVC
  • MPEG-5 EVC
  • MPEG-5 LCEVC
  • AVS2
  • AVS3

Professional and intraframe codecs

  • JPEG
  • MJPEG
  • JPEG 2000
  • ProRes
  • DNxHD / DNxHR

Audio codecs

  • Opus
  • AAC
  • HE-AAC
  • AC-3
  • E-AC-3
  • MP3
  • Vorbis
  • FLAC
  • G.711
  • G.722
  • G.729

Media containers, transport, and delivery

  • MPEG-TS
  • MP4 / ISOBMFF
  • CMAF
  • Matroska
  • WebM
  • HLS
  • MPEG-DASH
  • RTP
  • RTSP
  • RTMP
  • SRT
  • RIST
  • WebRTC
  • SDI
  • ASI
  • SMPTE ST 2110
  • SMPTE 2022-6

Real-time communications

  • SIP
  • H.323
  • SS7
View Telecom Engineering

Hardware-accelerated media

Includes hardware paths used by NVIDIA DeepStream SDK and the media frameworks listed above.

NVIDIA
  • NVIDIA Video Codec SDK
  • NVENC
  • NVDEC
  • CUDA media processing
Intel
  • Intel Quick Sync Video
  • Intel VPL
  • VA-API
  • Intel GPU media acceleration
AMD
  • AMD AMF
  • AMD VCN
  • ROCm / HIP media integration
Cross-platform
  • Vulkan Video
  • OpenCL
  • FFmpeg hardware acceleration
  • GStreamer hardware acceleration
  • Zero-copy CPU/GPU pipelines
View Media Engineering

Embedded systems and hardware

Engineer firmware, operating systems, device software, and target-specific integrations for connected and resource-constrained platforms.

  • Linux
  • Embedded Linux
  • Yocto
  • Buildroot
  • Bare metal
  • BSD
  • x86-64
  • AArch64
  • AArch32
  • Microcontroller platforms
  • Firmware
  • Bootloaders
  • Board-support packages
  • Device drivers
  • Hardware interfaces
View Embedded Systems Engineering

Networking and high-performance infrastructure

Design observable, secure, high-throughput data paths and infrastructure across packets, protocols, servers, and private compute.

  • L2-L7 networking
  • Routing and switching
  • SDN and programmable networking
  • Packet processing
  • GTP
  • GRE
  • MPLS
  • MPTCP
  • Virtualization
  • Network visibility and telemetry
  • High-throughput data paths
  • Low-latency infrastructure
  • Linux servers and compute clusters
  • NGINX

Open networking, network operating systems, and SDN

Includes SONiC - Software for Open Networking in the Cloud - and open control, configuration, and high-performance data-plane technologies.

  • SONiC
  • Open vSwitch
  • OVN
  • FRRouting
  • OpenDaylight
  • ONOS
  • µONOS
  • P4
  • P4Runtime
  • Stratum
  • OpenFlow
  • NETCONF
  • RESTCONF
  • YANG
  • gNMI
  • gNOI
  • OpenConfig
  • eBPF
  • XDP
  • VPP / FD.io
  • DPDK
  • ODP

Open and programmable mobile-core platforms

Mobile-core platforms and accelerated user-plane options for telecom and private-network deployment.

  • Magma
  • Open5GS
  • free5GC
  • OpenAirInterface 5G Core
  • Aether / SD-Core
  • Kubernetes-based mobile-core deployment
  • DPDK-accelerated user planes
  • eBPF/XDP user planes
  • VPP-based user planes
Read the PacketLens Case Study

Supporting and Specialized Technologies

Applications and supporting technologies

Product applications, control planes, operator interfaces, and device experiences that connect systems to users and workflows.

  • Node.js
  • Qt
  • QML
  • React
  • Angular
  • Vue
  • NestJS
  • iOS
  • Android
View Production AI Systems Engineering

Legacy and enterprise platforms

Specialized technologies retained for integration, modernization, and long-lived enterprise systems without defining the primary stack.

  • AIX
  • DB2
  • WPF
  • PHP
  • Corosync
  • SQL
  • MySQL
View Legacy Platform Modernization

DISCUSS A CROSS-LAYER ENGINEERING CHALLENGE

Need a team that can work beyond the model?

Talk to OPTIME about a production-AI, embedded, telecom, media, networking, security, or high-performance system that crosses application, infrastructure, hardware, and operational boundaries.