Senior Software Engineer at SOCi, Inc. (2022-09 – Present)
Led engineering efforts for Local Landing Pages services serving Fortune Global enterprises, processing 2.15B+ requests/month and 88TB+ of data across page rendering, filtering, search, and publishing workflows.
- Partnered with Product, Design, Business, and engineering stakeholders to turn fuzzy AI/search ideas into quantitative goals, agent behavior, technical specs, rollout plans, and production requirements.
- Developed a customer-facing SEO/GEO agent that uses business context, page data, search signals, quality checks, and human review to generate recommendations and support optimized local landing pages.
- Designed agent architecture around context assembly, tool/function calls, prompt/model versions, structured outputs, validation, human review, and controlled publishing; implemented multi-provider LLM flows across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
- Developed shared AI judge/evaluation architecture across agent workflows, combining model-graded checks, visual judges, regression tests, compliance validations, reviewer feedback, data-quality SLAs, RBAC gates, PII handling, and publish-time checks.
- Built and maintained OpenSearch/Elasticsearch indexes, migrations, ingestion paths, and renderer consumption flows for location/page data, supporting filtering, page rendering, indexed fields, query tuning, and relevance debugging at scale.
- Led POC/MVP work for Locator Search, now moving into project goals, enabling API/UI natural-language location search with embeddings, LLM APIs, semantic filtering, geo-location signals, and intent-aware query handling.
- Led POC/MVP work for Genius Pages Editor, now moving into project goals, as a chat-based Handlebars template editor using agent loops, renderer-aware context, structured edits, Playwright screenshots, LLM visual judges, S3 sessions, and GitHub commit/PR flows.
- Developed and owned production services with multi-region HA architecture, Cloudflare Workers, OpenSearch replication, event-driven queues, CI/CD, idempotency, DLQs, retries, dashboards, alerting, and incident response.
- Built GraphQL and REST APIs with production test coverage, contributed to legacy Perl-to-microservices migration and COGS savings, mentored engineers, and was recognized as a "Company-Wide Overachiever Champion".
- Tech: TypeScript/Node.js, Bun, ElysiaJS, Next.js/React/Tailwind, Python, PHP/Laravel/Lumen, GraphQL, REST, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini/GCP Vertex AI, Grok, LangChain, FAISS, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, SingleStore, BigQuery, S3, BullMQ/RabbitMQ/SQS, Cloudflare Workers, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ArgoCD, Jest/Mocha/PHPUnit, Playwright, New Relic/Grafana.
Agentic AI Architecture at Ambient Sync (2022-09 – Present)
- Built prototype agent workflows focused on multi-step task execution, tool use, RAG, structured outputs, and evaluation loops.
- Implemented retrieval and feedback loops with embeddings, vector search, function calling, relevance checks, failed-generation analysis, and reviewer-decision signals.
- Tech: LlamaIndex, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Claude SDK, OpenAI/Claude, embeddings, vector search, RAG, function calling, structured outputs.
Senior Back End Developer at Smooth Commerce (2021-06 – 2022-09)
Developed scalable backend services and real-time integrations for e-commerce, POS, and payment workflows, applying strong data validation and governance across millions of transaction records.
- Improved scalability through query optimization, caching, async processing, deployment automation, APM, and production debugging.
- Mentored junior developers, led code reviews, collaborated cross-functionally, and was named Employee of the Sprint five times.
- Tech: PHP, Laravel, Symfony, MySQL/RDS, Redis, RabbitMQ, Firebase, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, New Relic, BugSnag.
Application Developer at MyWiFi Networks (2020-08 – 2021-06)
Built REST APIs, secure authentication flows, subscription/payment integrations, messaging integrations, and Microsoft Graph workflows.
- Implemented async processing, scheduled jobs, queue monitoring, MySQL optimization, PHPUnit tests, and AWS-backed storage/cache services.
- Tech: PHP/Laravel, MySQL, Redis, AWS RDS/S3/ElastiCache, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, Stripe, Recurly, Twilio, Mailchimp, Microsoft Graph, PHPUnit.
System Development Coordinator / Analysis Programmer at Intero Brasil / Ekan Solucoes e Sistemas Integrados (2013-08 – 2020-08)
Led backend architecture and delivery for mission-critical systems, REST/SOAP APIs, ETL pipelines, data integrations, and CI/CD workflows.
- Built high-throughput transaction systems handling 40,000 SKUs and 125,000 records/day with strict data-integrity requirements, SQL performance tuning, monitoring, and automation.
- Tech: PHP, CodeIgniter/HMVC, REST/SOAP APIs, MariaDB, Oracle, Vertica, MSSQL, Docker, AWS EC2/S3, CI/CD.
