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Engineering that survives production.

I focus on outcomes: reliability, latency, cost, and user satisfaction. Thin slices, rapid feedback, and instrumentation from day one.

Data engineering

Your AI is only as good as your data. I build pipelines with contracts, quality gates, and lineage so you can trust what's flowing downstream—and debug it when you can't.

  • Data contracts, quality gates, lineage, and run metadata
  • Idempotent pipelines so reruns don't corrupt data or blow budgets
  • Cost-aware storage and compute patterns

AI & knowledge retrieval (RAG/IR)

RAG systems are easy to demo, hard to productionize. I build retrieval that resists prompt injection, stays fast under load, and gives you eval loops to measure whether changes actually improve results.

  • Indexing, chunking, embeddings, and query strategy
  • Evaluation loops (coverage, groundedness, latency, cost)
  • Prompt-injection defenses (because your users will absolutely try to hack your RAG system)

Agents & autonomy

Agent demos are impressive until they call the wrong API or get stuck in loops. I build orchestration with safety guardrails, tracing, and fallback paths—so your agents fail gracefully instead of catastrophically.

  • Tool use, orchestration, and workflow automation
  • Observability, tracing, and regression testing for agent behavior
  • Cost/latency budgets, retries, and safe fallback paths

Engagements

How we can work together

Discovery & architecture

I'll spend a week embedded with your team: reviewing your current system, identifying the three highest-leverage improvements, and mapping a delivery plan that doesn't require rewriting everything.

Build & ship

We build in 2-week increments with working demos at each stage. Every release includes instrumentation, tests, and rollback plans—not just new features.

Iterate & train

Once you're in production, we analyze real usage data to tune performance, add eval coverage for edge cases, and train your team to maintain and extend the system.