Principal AI Architect: agentic AI platforms, LLM infrastructure, and retrieval.

Architected the firm-wide AI platform running production AI agents and model services.

• Delivered vector + graph retrieval (RAG/GraphRAG) pipelines powering a sovereign research layer with full data lineage.
• Improved DORA metrics across 180 repos; authored the build-vs-buy case adopted by firm leadership.

Open-weight models at scale, agentic retrieval, and hybrid container platforms.

• Deployed open-weight language models at scale on a self-hosted serving stack; trained small language models tuned for latency and cost per query.
• Architected agentic retrieval systems over vector stores and embedding models for intelligent document processing.
• Built data engineering pipelines with lineage, governance, and quality frameworks delivering production data products.
• Architected hybrid container-platform and service-mesh deployments for workload portability across cloud and on-premises; established SRE practices including SLO/SLI frameworks and incident response.

FinOps at organization scale, service mesh, and reliability engineering.

• Spearheaded FinOps adoption and toolchain integration, realizing 30%+ yearly savings in cloud and SaaS spend through cost anomaly detection and event-driven remediation.
• Architected an organization-wide service mesh across all container workloads, with custom proxy filters and OAuth 2.0 access patterns.
• Developed SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs ensuring 99.99%+ availability; automated SOC2 compliance monitoring and remediation with SecOps.

Security hardening for a crypto exchange handling $30MM+ in daily transaction volume.

• Hardened security posture through static and dynamic application security testing and advanced network monitoring, routing, and filtering.
• Tuned container workloads for performance and cost; cut MTTR 30% through cloud-native observability and distributed tracing.

DevOps transformation for an IoT asset-monitoring provider.

• Owned the DevOps roadmap, optimized the application landscape for scalability, and managed team output and accountability.

Pioneered the DevOps practice in compliance-driven environments.

• Built foundational DevOps processes under PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and SOC2, delivering automation across diverse client sectors on serverless, container, and messaging cloud services.

Director of Operations, IT Manager, Implementation Consultant, and Systems Support Analyst roles.