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Work Experience

• Founder & Lead Engineer, Devs Miami LLC

  Oct, 2025 - Present

  Built and shipped wingit.dev, a production full-stack AI web application, owning every layer from product specification to deployment.

  • Designed, built, and deployed wingit.dev end to end, including architecture, data model, UI, backend APIs, CI/CD, container delivery, analytics, and production observability.

  • Built a full-stack product using Next.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Docker-based delivery, GitHub Actions, and GHCR.

  • Developed supporting automation and command-line tooling for testing, deployment, data inspection, audio processing experiments, and production diagnostics.

  • Instrumented logs, metrics, traces, session replay, funnels, and dashboards to guide debugging and product iteration using real behavior data.

  • Authored product specifications, implementation plans, acceptance criteria, and regression scenarios before implementing and reviewing changes.

• Sr. Software Engineer & AI Model Trainer, Snorkel AI

  Jun, 2025 - Present

  Python-first contractor building evaluation harnesses, RAG-style workflows, and audio-aware pipelines for evaluating and improving code-capable language models.

  • Built Python microservices and FastAPI applications for speech-to-text transcription, audio segmentation, and feature extraction using Whisper and Librosa.

  • Developed Pydantic and SQLAlchemy data layers for structured inputs, outputs, validation, and persistence across evaluation workflows.

  • Prototyped a Neo4j-backed RAG system using embeddings, graph retrieval, structured logging, and domain-specific context expansion for audio-related knowledge.

  • Orchestrated Dockerized services performing coordinated tool calls, reusable workflow steps, and automated evaluation tasks.

  • Characterized recurring model failure modes and translated them into reproducible tasks, grading rubrics, automated checks, and technical documentation.

• Sr. Software Engineer & AI Model Trainer, Sepal AI

  Nov, 2025 - Apr, 20265 months

  Embedded contractor working directly with a frontier AI lab on software-engineering capability improvements for coding models.

  • Completed onboarding and was immediately selected for the accelerated experts track.

  • Promoted to occupational reviewer for software development and AI model training, judging other contributors' tasks, rubrics, tests, and technical reasoning.

  • Reviewed Python and TypeScript code, diffs, model outputs, and evaluation assets for correctness, maintainability, edge cases, and signal quality.

  • Enforced coding standards, reproducible test behavior, clear documentation, and defensible engineering judgment across shared work.

  • Mentored contributors on code review expectations, debugging, task clarity, test quality, and stronger written technical feedback.

• Full-Stack Web Developer & AI Model Trainer, Scale.ai

  Dec, 2023 - Jun, 20251 year 6 months

  Benchmarked and improved leading language models on software-engineering capabilities, including code generation, debugging, testing, deployment, and technical explanation.

  • Authored and reviewed software-engineering tasks involving Python scripts, APIs, debugging, data processing, performance, concurrency, and test-driven validation.

  • Inspected model-generated Python, C++, JavaScript, and TypeScript code for correctness, maintainability, edge cases, and compliance with requirements.

  • Wrote detailed technical reviews explaining implementation tradeoffs, weak tests, regression risks, and the behavioral effect of code changes.

  • Investigated and debugged enterprise-style repositories containing multiple services, REST APIs, integrations, build systems, and deployment workflows.

  • Built executable evaluation environments with automated tests, Docker, Git-based workflows, CI/CD tooling, and reproducible application state.

  • Promoted to senior reviewer on multiple projects and helped onboard contributors to code review and AI software-evaluation workflows.

• Software Engineer II, Accelya Group

  Mar, 2015 - Dec, 20227 years 9 months

  Technical lead on enterprise web applications, REST APIs, SOAP services, identity systems, and operational tools serving major airlines, GDSs, and travel platforms.

  • Designed, built, tested, and maintained enterprise applications and REST APIs used by Lufthansa, American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Travelport, Priceline, and other customers.

  • Built OpenAPI and Swagger-documented APIs, internal administrative tools, integration utilities, and structured data workflows.

  • Designed and shipped an OIDC/OAuth 2.0 identity and access management platform supporting federated SSO and secure API access.

  • Owned a critical C++/.NET SOAP messaging gateway responsible for routing and validating high-volume platform traffic.

  • Built a self-service customer onboarding application that replaced a month-long manual workflow and freed an operational team for other work.

  • Worked in shared repositories using branches, pull requests, code review, release workflows, debugging, and coordinated changes across dependent services.

  • Led staging and development environment design, CI/CD pipelines, logging, certificates, firewall rules, load balancers, production troubleshooting, and release support.

• Software Engineer I, Seagate Technology

  Jun, 2012 - Nov, 20142 years 5 months

  Software engineer in the Reliability Department building Python, C++, and Java software for hard-drive testing, acoustic analysis, internal tooling, logging, and CI/CD.

  • Built and maintained Python reliability test suites enabling early detection of serious hard-drive manufacturing and reliability defects.

  • Developed Python automation and internal tooling for hardware test orchestration, result processing, failure investigation, and repeatable engineering workflows.

  • Built high-performance C++ extension libraries callable from Python when test or analysis workloads required lower-level performance.

  • Authored and maintained C++ libraries using Boost.Log and Google Test, providing platform-wide logging, unit testing, mocking, and reusable test primitives.

  • Developed Windows Forms applications used for acoustic testing of hard disk drives.

  • Defined department coding standards and automated API documentation generation from source comments.

  • Deployed Atlassian Bamboo CI/CD across the team to improve repeatable builds, automated testing, and release reliability.

• Team Lead, Web Developer, Colorado State University, College of Business

  May, 2011 - Oct, 20121 year 5 months

  Led backend web development and internal service integration for the College of Business while completing a computer science degree.

  • Led backend web development using C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint Web Parts, AJAX-enhanced forms, and REST service integrations.

  • Prototyped WCF services and internal tools to make shared platform data available across applications.

  • Worked with source control, project tracking, databases, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver production web features.

  • Promoted to Team Lead managing a small development team while concurrently starting an internship at Seagate Technology.

Projects Experience

• WingIt

  Oct, 2025 - Present

  https://wingit.dev | Production full-stack AI web application built as a solo 0-to-1 product with backend APIs, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, container delivery, analytics, automated regression testing, and production observability.

• AI Audio Analysis RAG Prototype

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Python system for audio analysis using Whisper transcription, Librosa segmentation, embeddings, graph retrieval, and structured processing of long-form audio.

• Financial Intelligence API Prototype

  Jun, 2026 - Present

  https://sdn-openapi.netlify.app/ | Python and FastAPI prototype combining structured OFAC sanctions data, REST API access, entity matching, validation, and uncertainty-aware analysis.

• Audio Loudness Analyzer

  Dec, 2023 - May, 20251 year 5 months

  https://loudness-app.netlify.app/ | Web-based audio mastering tool for comparing how music will sound after loudness normalization across streaming platforms.

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