About
AI engineer with a track record designing and deploying agentic LLM
systems, secure AI infrastructure, and adaptive pipeline
architectures in Top Secret cleared production environments. Bridges
cutting-edge AI research with battle-tested backend engineering —
from LangGraph-powered planning agents to OpenAPI-defined WAF
security workflows.
Open to cleared and non-cleared roles.
Experience
Software Engineer II — Rampart AI
Jan 2025 — Present · Melbourne, FL
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Architected and deployed agentic LLM pipelines using LangGraph,
transforming static deterministic workflows into adaptive
planning agents with dynamic tool selection.
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Led LLM integration into production backend services, building
mock OpenAI-compatible APIs and comprehensive testing frameworks
to validate AI outputs and system behavior under
security-sensitive constraints.
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Built Web Application Firewall (WAF) tooling for AI-driven
request/response security analysis, enabling structured,
auditable evaluation of AI decisions at the infrastructure
boundary.
Software Engineer I — Rampart AI
Jan 2024 — Jan 2025 · Melbourne, FL
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Developed zero-trust Python runtime audit monitoring with custom
module loading, adapted for deployment within agentic AI systems
requiring strict behavioral auditability.
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Engineered parsing engine capable of processing highly irregular
payloads, significantly improving reliability of downstream AI
data pipelines.
Software Engineer I — Securboration
Feb 2022 — Jan 2024 · Melbourne, FL
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Developed suite of test applications and workflows for testing
and analysis of product systems.
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Built microservices and API gateways using Spring Boot and
Spring Cloud Gateway for distributed, high-availability backend
systems.
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Developed Python-based regex-driven data transformation pipelines
and Jenkins CI/CD automation; designed Docker multi-platform build
workflows with reproducible builds, SBOM tracking, and build
provenance.
Core competencies
LangGraph
Agentic systems
Prompt engineering & tool orchestration
Java
Groovy
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
AI security decisioning
Distributed systems
MCP
OpenAPI
LLM integration & testing
Docker
Jenkins
CI/CD
Secure AI infrastructure
Python ML
Kubernetes
RESTful APIs
Python
WAF
Selected projects
Agentic AI pipeline conversion
Converted deterministic production pipelines into adaptive AI agents
with tool selection and execution strategies, increasing system
flexibility for AI-first mission workflows.
LLM Web Application Firewall client
Generated Java client with dynamic mock response generation,
enabling full test coverage of AI-driven security decisioning for
monitoring and enforcement of layer 7 data.
Zero-trust Python audit monitor
Custom Python runtime for monitoring auditable events at runtime
with bespoke module loading, purpose-built for agentic systems
operating under strict security constraints.
Event parsing engine
Designed robust system to handle highly irregular event payloads
with delimiter ambiguity and nested data, materially improving
downstream processing for AI data pipelines.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL · 2016 — 2021