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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

- Architected a Graph-Of-Thought Inspired, agentic, conversational logic tree: Designed and implemented the system to handle advanced, objective-based conversations with LLMs, enhancing the depth and relevance of interactions.- Built RecSys algorithms to present our LLM chatrooms to teachers. - Built RAG Systems: Integrated a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system with the graph-of-thought conversation model, pushing beyond traditional context limits in language models.- Clustered Large Data Sets: Utilized UMAP, HDBSCAN, and EVOC for clustering extensive data sets, identifying sparse coverage areas in proprietary content to enhance data-driven insights.- Expert Prompt Engineer: Managed domain-specific prompts, ensuring precise and effective interactions. Developed an evaluation system, leveraging LLM-as-a-judge to assess and improve prompt performance.

• Led full-stack projects from requirements gathering to production withtechnologies like React, Angular, Restful APIs, gRPC, graphQL, Next.js, Vercel, Postgres, S3,Typescript, Python, Tailwind, and more.• Built deployment pipelines, testing/code quality automation, andmonitoring systems using GitHub Actions, Jasmine, and Firebase.• Managed off-shore development teams.• Designed and implemented multiple modern system architectures• Translated intricate technical project requirements into actionable userstories.

• Founded & Launched a product that made $60k of ARR (Bootstrapped)• Led a team building an advanced dynamically generated form submission product with Multi-tenanacy, RBAC access, and real-time updates using React, Next.js, Graphql, and Postgres.• Managed the complexities of end-to-end project life cycles, includingrequirement gathering, stakeholder expectations, timeline estimations, riskmanagement, and delivery.• Identified, scoped, and prioritized technical projects based on businessvalue and impact.

• Enforced processes and aided in rapid development best practices andcode quality.• Standardized processes facilitate Onboarding and knowledge sharing.• Guided the creation of the technical backlog.• Improved AWS & Cloudflare CI/CD for Node.js microservice application• Defined team mechanisms to enhance team delivery, operationalexcellence, and engineering focus• Aligned business-driven projects with our long-term architectural vision• Worked with stakeholders and engineers identify scope and build mostimpactful projects

• Worked with Facebook Crypto team to build a Tokenization toolingdashboard using React, Tailwind, Sass.• Worked with Facebook to build opensource.fb.com, a React & Next.jsproject.• Implemented an NPM package of readily usable, branded & themed, ADAcompliant UI Component library using Angular, Storybook and Tailwind.

Park City, Ut

• Migrated a high-profile site from JQuery to React leveraging 99% codecoverage to ensure no reduction in user experience.• Optimized Automated build process using Jenkins and Ansible.• Contributed to initiatives to establish solid Testing practices by refiningautomated testing in the build pipeline.• Supported various RESTful teams with APIs written in Java, Scala, &Python

Park City, Ut

• Contributed features and helped maintain Node.Js back-end building full-stack features.• Handled Build pipelines, Unit test setup, and gained valuable knowledge ofwhat maintainable code means• Migrated a mapping application from Angular/Google Maps toReact/Mapbox into a modern React SPA. Optimized information from GIS data to higher speed rendering times.

Salt Lake City Area

- Contributed to the full stack development of the BandForge platform leveraging Angular and Node.js, engaged in robust debugging, and implemented feature enhancements.- Actively participated in rigorous code reviews and pair programming sessions with senior developers, reinforcing best practices.- Engaged in Agile and Scrum methodologies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, facilitating CI/CD pipeline and version control using Git.

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