
SME Careers
LLM training pipeline — code review
Requirement
Review and harden SME Careers' Python and Docker LLM training pipeline — improve data loading, checkpointing, failure recovery, and operational runbooks so containerized training jobs are production-ready.
What we built
- Full audit of training code: batching strategy, gradient accumulation, memory usage, and distributed training configuration
- Checkpoint strategy with versioned model artifacts, automatic resume from last good state, and S3-compatible storage layout
- Docker image hardening: multi-stage builds, pinned dependencies, GPU runtime flags, and health checks for orchestrators
- Runbooks for retraining schedules, hyperparameter sweeps, rollback procedures, and on-call escalation paths
- Recommendations for CI validation, dataset versioning with Git, and monitoring training loss and GPU utilization
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