Building private and secure on-premises AI solutions from coding copilots to retrieval/hybrid search. Creating an agentic AI frameworks for task automation (RPA) and research.

- Consulted and developed enterprise generative AI technical strategy for a major US financial institution and made recommendations for team structure and technical needs to establish an AI business unit.- Pioneered learning pathways and mentorship groups for an AI engineering practice that cross-trained software engineers in machine learning, data engineering, and generative AI techniques.- Leveraged Python, MLOps, and TypeScript to build APIs, experiment tracking, and data pipelines that power a retrieval augmented generation system for a support chat experience.- Provided technical leadership and team building capabilities to facilitate collective and individual growth in Data and AI techniques in response to market trends.- Built and delivered multiple AI product experiences including RAG/chat systems, AI-powered enterprise search, and generative AI document generators.

- Led and player/coached an agile engineering team through greenfield development of an Webby awarded Android/iOS mobile app that enables medical professionals to engage with text, images, audio, and video.- Architected backend-for-frontend APIs in TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL that handled SSO authentication, account creation, content viewing, content highlighting, and content organization.- Integrated with a complex, legacy third-party dependency; leveraged Elasticache/Redis and Elasticsearch to optimize costs, boost performance, and decrease response times.- Guided the team’s shift-left testing strategy, CI/CD pipelines in Github Actions, observability measures, monitoring, and performance testing suite across both backend and mobile disciplines.- Established an internal cloud training center to drive mentorship, capability, expertise, and certifications of the backend engineering team.

- Integrated PayPal Braintree payments processor into a large-scale .NET and ReactJS web application.- Improved page load speeds and enhanced website SEO and developer experience by migrating a .NET/ReactJS application to Vite.js and introducing server-side rendering with ReactJS.NET.- Upgraded a legacy Java-based CMS to leverage Docker containers and to have automated infrastructure-as-code deployments via Terraform and Github Actions.

- Developed and managed major software platforms for streaming video content delivery, sales, and marketing.- Provisioned and managed systems administration of several bare metal Linux servers used for content streaming to prevent excess cloud egress costs- Architected, deployed, and maintained a large-scale CRM application in PHP, Laravel and Vue.js, and built corresponding CI/CD pipelines in Github Actions.- Created a medical waiting room digital signage video platform in Capacitor for the Amazon Fire TV that grew to $1.5 million in annual revenue in three years.- Built NodeJS-based ETL pipelines and internal Ruby microservices for video compression and 3D rendering.- Managed an engineering team, a product support team, and partnerships with vendors and content resellers.

- Pioneered a PHP/Laravel-based medical video content development platform that automated closed caption generation, performed reading level analysis, and assisted in translation and localization.- Transitioned the company’s existing Adobe Flash web video player software to a JavaScript/HTML video experience.- Created a new sales platform hosted on Linux and Apache servers, and transitioned backend architecture to MVC patterns.- Handled product support for thousands of customers, and managed server reliability, migration, and scaling efforts.

- Developed and organized curriculum for advanced 500-level data visualization programming courses at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media.- Taught data storage techniques in MongoDB/Node.js, D3.js/SVG data visualization, and Vue.js web development.- Conducted classroom instruction, coached project groups, and held one-on-one mentorship sessions to enhance students’ skills and understanding of complex programming concepts.

- Built a large-scale, customized WordPress-powered multisite application that enabled a team of 30 reporters to author and manage multimodal content experiences.- Created award-winning interactive graphics in Adobe Flash/ActionScript that leveraged thousands of media assets, including photos, videos, and text content.

- Managed integration of authoring platforms from Adobe InCopy into a college media content management system.- Built, edited and deployed interactive experiences in Adobe Flash/ActionScript to be published to dailytarheel.com.- Led a team of ten reporters on creation of in-depth profiles, trends, and local arts content for daily publication.