Keith Bourne (LinkedIn handle – keithbourne) is a Staff LLM Data Scientist at Magnifi by TIFIN (magnifi.com), founder of Memriq AI, and host of The Memriq Inference Brief—a weekly podcast exploring RAG, AI agents, and memory systems for both technical leaders and practitioners. He has over a decade of experience building production machine learning and AI systems, working across diverse projects at companies ranging from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises. With an MBA from Babson College and a master's in applied data science from the University of Michigan, Keith has developed sophisticated generative AI platforms from the ground up using advanced RAG techniques, agentic architectures, and foundational model fine-tuning. He is the author of Unlocking Data with Generative AI and RAG (2nd edition, Packt Publishing)—many podcast episodes connect directly to chapters in the book.