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Designs end-to-end ML lifecycle platforms using MLflow for experiment tracking, model registry, and deployment pipelines. Has built MLOps infrastructure for data science teams at financial services and e-commerce companies handling millions of daily predictions.
Implements MLflow-based workflows that connect data science experimentation to production deployment. Specializes in model versioning, A/B testing infrastructure, and reproducible training pipelines. Background in deploying models for marketing and demand forecasting applications.
Builds experiment tracking and model management systems using MLflow integrated with enterprise data platforms. Deep experience migrating ad-hoc ML workflows into governed, reproducible pipelines. Has led MLOps standardization across multi-team organizations.
Architects ML platforms on Databricks with MLflow as the central tracking and registry layer. Experienced building self-service tooling that lets data scientists ship models without bottlenecking engineering. Focused on model governance and audit-ready ML systems.
MLOps engineer deploying MLflow across cloud-native ML workflows on GCP. Has built automated retraining pipelines, model drift detection, and CI/CD for ML models. Works on bridging the gap between research-oriented data science teams and production infrastructure.
Builds data pipelines and experiment tracking infrastructure using MLflow. Experience instrumenting existing training scripts with MLflow logging and integrating model registry into deployment workflows. Working on advanced pipeline orchestration with Prefect and Airflow.
What Makes Tecla Different For Hiring MLflow Developers
Top 3% Acceptance Rate
For every 100 MLflow developers who apply, 3 get through. That filter exists before you spend a minute in an interview. The candidates you meet have demonstrated real MLOps capability, not just familiarity with the library.
5-Day Candidate Match
You see vetted MLflow candidates within 5 days of scoping your requirements. The average company spends 6+ weeks sourcing before reviewing a single qualified profile.
40–60% Salary Savings
Hiring nearshore MLflow developers in Latin America costs significantly less than US-equivalent talent. Same MLOps depth. Same production experience. Different cost-of-living baseline.
97% First-Year Retention
MLOps knowledge compounds. A developer who understands your training pipelines and model registry structure gets more valuable over time. Our retention rate means that investment stays on your team.
0–3 Hour Timezone Difference
When your data scientist needs to debug a training run or your pipeline fails mid-afternoon, you want a developer who responds before the day ends. Latin America delivers that.
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Companies That Hired Through Tecla
"Tecla successfully found candidates for our team and handled the entire process from scheduling to interviews. They were timely, responsive, and always kept communication flowing through email and messaging apps. I was really impressed with Tecla’s follow-up and thoroughness throughout the process."
"I’m very happy with Tecla. Their support has improved our QA process, reduced bug reports by half, and made our onboarding process twice as fast. The team is responsive, cost-effective, and delivers high-quality candidates on time. Tecla has truly become a trusted extension of our internal hiring team."
"Tecla is organized and provides a strong partnership experience. From hiring multiple engineers within weeks to maintaining consistent communication and feedback, they’ve shown real professionalism. Their follow-up and collaboration made the entire staffing process efficient and enjoyable."
The Skills We Verify in All MLflow Developers
Instrumenting training pipelines to log parameters, metrics, and artifacts in MLflow for full experiment reproducibility. Our MLflow developers work with autologging integrations, custom run hierarchies, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and XGBoost to deliver training runs that can be compared and reproduced months later.
Expert-level experience managing model versions through staging, production, and archival states in the MLflow Model Registry. They establish promotion workflows, approval gates, and CI/CD integration so models move from experiment to production with governance and auditability built in.
Deep expertise in MLflow model serving, REST API deployment, and integration with AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, and GCP Vertex AI. Plus advanced capability in containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, batch inference pipelines, and latency optimization for real-time serving endpoints.
Our MLflow developers proactively monitor model performance, detect data and concept drift, manage retraining schedules, and keep pipeline dependencies current. They also provide documentation and runbooks so your team can operate the ML system without depending on the developer who built it.
How Our Hiring Process Works
Define What You Need
Review Candidate Profiles
Interview and Assess
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Our Hiring Models
One structure for individual contributors, another for teams that need more.
True Cost to Hire MLflow Developers: US vs. LATAM
MLOps engineering commands strong compensation in US tech markets, particularly as companies mature their ML infrastructure. Where you hire changes the total investment substantially.
US full-time positions carry overhead that goes well beyond base salary. Benefits packages, payroll tax obligations, recruiting costs, and administrative burden typically add 35–45% to what the developer actually earns.
US Full-Time Hiring: Hidden Costs
Senior MLflow developers in the US command $170K–$230K base. The fully-loaded cost is considerably higher once overhead is added.
- Health insurance: $12K–$18K
- Retirement contributions: $10.2K–$13.8K (~6% of base)
- Payroll taxes: $13.6K–$18.4K (~8% of base)
- PTO: $8.5K–$11.5K (~5% of base)
- Administrative costs: $6K–$9K
- Recruitment costs: $25.5K–$34.5K (~15% of base)
Total hidden costs: $75.8K–$105.2K per developer
Adding base compensation brings total annual investment to $245.8K–$335.2K per MLflow developer.
LATAM Hiring Through Tecla (Per Developer, Annually)
All-inclusive rate: $96K–$132K
One monthly rate covers developer compensation, regional benefits, payroll taxes, paid time off, HR administration, technical screening, legal setup, and ongoing engagement management. No recruiting markups. No month-three surprises.
Your MLflow developer is in your Databricks workspace and instrumenting training runs while you focus on what the data science team actually needs.
The Real Savings
A senior MLflow developer in the US costs $245.8K–$335.2K annually when all overhead is factored in. Tecla's all-inclusive rate: $96K–$132K. That's $113.8K–$203.2K saved per developer (46–61% reduction).
A team of 5 nearshore MLflow developers: $1.23M–$1.68M annually in the US versus $480K–$660K through Tecla. Annual savings: $750K–$1.02M. Same MLOps capability, English fluency, and timezone alignment.
No recruiting fees or placement costs. Resources replaceable at no additional cost during the 90-day trial. Transparent all-inclusive pricing with no notice required in the first 90 days.
What Is an MLflow Developer?
MLflow developers build and maintain the infrastructure that makes machine learning reproducible, governed, and deployable at scale. They own the tooling layer between data science experimentation and production ML systems.
MLflow developers sit between data engineering and data science. They understand enough about model training to instrument it meaningfully, and enough about infrastructure to make trained models reliably available in production.
What separates a strong MLflow developer from someone who's added a few logging calls to a training script is their understanding of the full lifecycle. Why reproducibility breaks down. How model governance fails without proper registry workflows. What it takes to make a retraining pipeline robust rather than fragile.
Companies hire MLflow developers when their ML practice has grown past what ad-hoc notebooks and informal model sharing can support, often within engineering organizations where Ruby developers and other backend teams are already handling the application layer that consumes model outputs.
Business Impact
When you hire an MLflow developer, ML infrastructure stops blocking data science productivity and starts enabling it.
Reproducibility: Experiment tracking with full parameter and artifact logging means models can be compared and audited months after the original training run.
Deployment speed: Standardized model registry workflows replace ad-hoc handoffs between data science and engineering. Models go from experiment to production in days, not weeks, and are increasingly consumed by mobile applications built by Flutter developers that depend on reliable, versioned model endpoints.
Governance: Approval gates and staging environments in the model registry catch regressions before they reach users, with a clear record of what changed and when, an auditability requirement that mirrors what blockchain developers implement for immutable transaction logs.
Operational stability: Automated retraining pipelines and drift detection mean model performance degrades visibly before it degrades silently.
The right job description for an MLflow developer separates people who've used MLflow from people who've designed MLOps systems around it. Those are different profiles, and your description should make clear which one you need.
Give timeline expectations upfront. "First-round conversations within two weeks of applying" signals that your hiring process is as organized as the ML systems you're asking them to build.
What Role You're Actually Filling
Ask candidates to describe an MLflow implementation they built and the biggest operational challenge it solved. This surfaces people who've dealt with real production problems, not just tutorial use cases.
State whether you need someone to instrument existing training pipelines, build a model registry from scratch, or own the entire MLOps platform. Include a concrete outcome. "Reduce model deployment lead time from 3 weeks to 3 days" is something a qualified candidate can react to.
How to Apply
Be honest about your current state. Are you migrating from ad-hoc tracking? Running on Databricks already? Dealing with a model registry nobody trusts? The more specific you are about the problem, the more relevant the applicants.
Describe how your data science and engineering teams actually collaborate. MLflow developers who've worked in centralized platform teams land differently than those embedded with individual data science squads.
Must-Haves vs Nice-to-Haves
Separate required from preferred. Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog might be valuable, but if someone has built solid MLflow workflows on AWS and can transfer that, you don't want to eliminate them with an overly strict list.
Make your disqualifiers specific. "Designed MLflow tracking integrations for production training pipelines with weekly retraining cycles" means something. "Familiarity with MLOps tools" does not.
Good MLflow interview questions separate people who've built reliable ML systems from people who've read the documentation. The difference shows up in how they describe failure modes, not how they describe features.
What it reveals: Understanding of MLflow's organizational primitives and how they map to real team structures. Listen for discussion of experiment naming conventions, run tagging strategies, and how they'd handle cross-team visibility versus isolation.
What it reveals: Experience with the organizational side of MLOps, not just the technical side. Look for specific workflows: staging environments, automated validation gates, approval requirements, rollback procedures.
What it reveals: Whether they build for longevity or just to ship. Listen for discussion of documentation practices, naming conventions, access control decisions, and how they handled onboarding new data scientists to the system.
What it reveals: Honest experience with production incidents in ML systems specifically. Look for clear incident description, systematic diagnosis, and what they changed in the pipeline architecture as a result.
What it reveals: Change management ability and how they balance rigor with researcher productivity. Watch for candidates who understand why data scientists resist tooling overhead and have concrete strategies for reducing friction.
What it reveals: Cross-functional collaboration and how they navigate organizational dependencies. Strong candidates describe specific communication approaches, not just that they "worked with other teams."
What it reveals: Where they do their best work. Platform builders and embedded specialists are different people, and the wrong fit shows up within months. Strong candidates know which environment they're more effective in and can explain why.
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