Roman Slack, Lead AI Platform Engineer
About
Roman Slack is a Lead AI Platform Engineer at Just-Tech LLC, where he builds production AI systems for the legal sector deployed to over 60,000 users with more than $130,000 in sales generated. He works remotely from Salt Lake City, Utah, and is also available for roles in New York City, and he takes on independent AI consulting work for companies and founders. He was previously an AI research intern at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate. Across 50-plus projects and 1,500-plus hours, his work spans reinforcement learning for missile interception, LLM-driven autonomous UAV swarm control, real-time low-latency voice AI, multi-agent LLM simulation, and full-stack web development.
Selected work
Discerio, an educational MMO for building agentic AI, won two first-place awards at HackPrinceton Fall 2025 (the Y Combinator Challenge and the Dedalus Labs track). Hlynr Intercept is a radar-based missile-interception reinforcement learning environment. AUS-Lab is an LLM-driven autonomous UAV swarm laboratory. Her is a real-time, low-latency conversational voice AI. SimuVerse is a multi-agent LLM simulation set on Mars.
Explore the site
See his projects, experience, and hobbies, or get in touch about AI consulting and engineering work.
For developers and AI agents
Structured portfolio data, the OpenAPI spec, and the portfolio MCP server are documented in the developer portal.
Me overlooking my homeland in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
About Roman Slack
Roman Slack is a Lead AI Platform Engineer at Just-Tech LLC, where he builds production AI systems for the legal sector deployed to over 60,000 users with $130,000+ in sales generated. He currently works remotely from Salt Lake City, Utah, and also works in and is available for roles in New York City. He additionally takes on independent AI consulting work for companies and founders. He was previously an AI research intern at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate.
Across 50+ projects and 1,500+ hours, his work spans reinforcement learning for missile interception (Hlynr Intercept), LLM-driven autonomous UAV swarm control (AUS-Lab), real-time low-latency voice AI (Her), multi-agent LLM simulation (SimuVerse), and full-stack web applications. He has won hackathons including two first-place wins at HackPrinceton Fall 2025 — the Y Combinator Challenge (earning guaranteed YC interviews) and the Dedalus Labs track — for Discerio, plus HackRPI and Columbia's Best Use of AI, and founded NextGen, a free youth coding program.
Outside engineering, Roman Slack is a mountaineer, trail runner, photographer, 3D modeler, music producer, and weightlifter. Explore his projects, experience, and hobbies, or get in touch about AI consulting and engineering work.