AI Systems Engineer · Open to roles

I build systems that
run without me.

20 years running operations at scale — from Army reconnaissance data to Walmart's catalog infrastructure. Now I build the AI systems that automate what I spent two decades doing by hand.

40+ autonomous agents live
0 missed payments in 6 months
6+ live production deployments
20+ years domain expertise

What I've built

Production systems, not demos. Each one runs on a schedule, handles its own errors, and does real work.

Hermes — LLM Inference Router GitHub ↗

Production proxy that sits between Claude Code / any OpenAI-compatible client and both local models and Anthropic's API. Routes by model name, request complexity, and token count. Strips PII before any cloud call. Tracks cost per session. Powers the entire oracle fleet — no direct API calls anywhere.

local + cloud routing PII sanitization dual-format: Anthropic + OpenAI
Python FastAPI Ollama SSE streaming Anthropic SDK
Payment Intelligence Bridge

Parses USAA and Zelle SMS alerts in real time → deterministic NLP extracts merchant, amount, and sender → routes to the correct financial ledger (D1 KV or Excel, depending on the account). Handles edge cases: duplicate detection, multi-account routing, and Telegram confirmations. Zero missed transactions across 6+ months.

0 missed payments 6+ months production dual-instance architecture
Python NLP Telegram Bot API Cloudflare KV SQLite
FakeOut Kitchen Live ↗

Affiliate recipe platform with a fully automated content pipeline. A daily exec agent finds trending restaurant dishes, generates copycat recipes, sources affiliate product links, runs image QA, and deploys — all without intervention. The pipeline handles swap image validation, ASIN caching, and dead-link recovery automatically. Infrastructure is production-grade; growth is an organic audience problem, not a technical one.

zero manual steps automated pipeline live production
Cloudflare Workers D1 KV Python Amazon PA API
Hermes Finance

Personal finance dashboard backed by Plaid. Real-time account balances, 30-day spend/income breakdown, categorized transactions, and a recurring charge detector that diffs the merchant set against a rolling 45-day window. Daily sync via cron. Built on Cloudflare D1 + KV.

Plaid API recurring charge detection daily auto-sync
Cloudflare Workers D1 KV Plaid SDK JavaScript
Romano Rentals Portal Live ↗

Tenant-facing payment portal with landlord admin dashboard. Tracks rent payments from two tenants via dual-ledger (Excel + Cloudflare KV), with Zelle payment detection piped in from the bridge. Landlord admin shows real-time ledger state with payment history.

2 tenants live dual-ledger sync live production
Cloudflare Workers KV JavaScript Telegram alerts

Skills

The full picture of what I bring, built from production systems rather than tutorials.

AI / LLM Engineering
  • Multi-agent system design (40+ agent fleets)
  • LLM inference routing — local/cloud, cost-aware
  • Prompt engineering for autonomous decision-making
  • Tool use, structured output, agent memory design
  • Model evaluation and benchmark design
  • RAG pipeline architecture
🐍 Python — Production
  • Async + concurrent pipeline execution
  • NLP and pattern extraction without libraries
  • Error recovery, retry logic, structured logging
  • SQLite / JSON state management for agents
  • API integration (Anthropic, Plaid, Telegram, Amazon PA)
  • LaunchAgent / cron scheduling on macOS
☁️ Cloudflare Ecosystem
  • Workers — serverless compute at edge
  • D1 — SQL at the edge, schema design + migrations
  • KV — key-value storage for fast state lookups
  • Pages — static + dynamic site deployment
  • Cron triggers — scheduled background sync
  • Wrangler CLI — automated deploy pipelines
🏗️ Systems Architecture
  • Event-driven agent communication via shared state bus
  • Self-healing system design (detect → diagnose → propose)
  • Dual-instance and failover architecture
  • Data pipeline construction and QA automation
  • Financial system design (ledgers, reconciliation)
  • Security: injection guards, PII sanitization, model scanning

Experience

20+ years building and running systems at scale — from Army reconnaissance data to Walmart's catalog infrastructure to autonomous AI fleets. The domain expertise and the technical work are the same discipline.

2024 – present
AI Systems Developer
Independent
  • Designed and operate a fleet of 40+ autonomous AI agents running daily business operations — content, finance, communications, and security
  • Built a production LLM inference router (Hermes) handling all AI workloads: local/cloud routing, cost tracking, PII sanitization, streaming proxy
  • Deployed 6+ live production systems including an automated affiliate recipe platform, financial dashboard (Plaid), and tenant rental portal
  • Built payment intelligence bridge parsing USAA/Zelle SMS into structured ledger entries — 0 missed transactions in 6+ months of production
  • Pursuing Harvard Data Science Certificate (Python, Statistics, ML) in parallel
2026 – present
Creative Operations & Content Strategy
Philadelphia Truck Parts Corp
  • Built the company's first in-house creative studio from scratch — photography, video, branding, and social content
  • Designed multi-phase roadmap for studio expansion including hiring plan, equipment, and digital content pipeline
  • Applied AI tooling to automate content workflows and improve operational efficiency
2021 – 2024 · 3 yrs
Manager of Creative / Technical Design Researcher III / Studio Operations Manager
Walmart Global Tech
  • Promoted three times over 3 years: Principal Photographer → Studio Operations Manager → Manager of Creative + Technical Design Researcher III
  • Contributed to Walmart's catalog systems and Spec universe — infrastructure that governs how millions of items are set up, discovered, and fulfilled
  • Led technical project management across creative, engineering, and product teams at Fortune 1 scale
  • Designed and optimized workflows for high-volume production environments with strict quality and throughput requirements
  • Mentored by Ram Rampalli and Gopal Krishnan — leaders in Walmart's retail data and technology organization
2025 – 2026 · 11 mos
Financial Solutions Consultant
Police and Fire Federal Credit Union
  • Conducted financial needs assessments and built personalized plans for members across savings, lending, and debt strategy
  • Advised on credit improvement, debt-to-income reduction, and long-term financial goal setting
2007 – 2021 · 14 yrs
Commercial Photographer / E-commerce Operations
QVC · Industrial Color · Jet · eBay Enterprise · GSI Commerce
  • 14 years of e-commerce product photography and studio operations across major retail platforms
  • Authored and maintained style guides for major clients (Toys R Us, Wilsons Leather, Sporting Goods) — became subject matter expert for multiple product categories
  • Managed production workflows under shrinking deadlines and growing catalogs; consistently over-delivered for demanding clients
  • Deep domain expertise in e-commerce content infrastructure — the same systems I now build AI tooling around
1996 – 2004 · 8 yrs
Recon Data Analyst / Photojournalist / Sergeant
US Army · Pennsylvania National Guard
  • Collected and synthesized geospatial and reconnaissance data into actionable intelligence for mission planning
  • Promoted to Sergeant; graduated in top 20% of 80 soldiers in Personnel Leadership and Development course
  • Covered NATO SFOR peacekeeping operations in Bosnia as embedded photojournalist
  • Trained and mentored teams under high-pressure operational conditions

Open to AI Engineer roles

20 years of domain expertise in e-commerce, operations, and data — combined with production AI systems I built and run today. Best fit: AI Engineer or ML Engineer at a company where domain knowledge accelerates the technical work. Remote or Philadelphia area.