Staff AI Engineer and Technical Leader with 14 years of experience architecting and scaling enterprise AI platforms.
Experience
2025 — Now
San Jose, CA
Technical lead responsible for architecting and delivering enterprise AI platforms for IBM’s largest clients while leading a team of 9 engineers across multiple AI initiatives and enterprise deployments.
• Lead a team of 9 engineers delivering production-grade Generative AI systems for enterprise clients using watsonx.ai, watsonx orchestrate, coordinating architecture, development, and deployment across multiple concurrent project streams.
• Architect and deploy agentic AI systems and RAG platforms using LangGraph, CrewAI, Watsonx Orchestrate, Milvus, and OpenSearch running on secure OpenShift GPU clusters.
• Drive end-to-end enterprise solution architecture, translating complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable AI platforms deployed in secure and air-gapped environments.
• Partner with product leadership and client stakeholders to operationalize generative AI capabilities into production enterprise platforms.
• Guide architecture decisions, code reviews, and DevOps practices across the team to ensure high reliability, performance, and security standards.
• Manage multiple parallel AI workstreams including agent orchestration platforms, enterprise RAG systems, and AI observability frameworks.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the organization, helping scale IBM’s enterprise AI platform capabilities.
Technologies and skills most leveraged:
CrewAI, LangGraph, MCP, Watsonx Orchestrate, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, IBM Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Milvus, OpenSearch, RAG, Generative AI, Terraform, DevSecOps, Helm, Cluade Code, Antigravity, Product Management, Technical Leadership
2021 — 2024
2021 — 2024
San Jose, CA
Senior technical leader within IBM’s AI incubator responsible for leading a 9-engineer team developing next-generation AI platforms and prototypes that bridge applied research and enterprise production systems.
• Led a team of 9 engineers building advanced AI platforms focused on generative AI, agent orchestration, and enterprise automation.
• Collaborated closely with IBM research and product teams to explore and operationalize emerging AI technologies, including LLM fine-tuning on regulatory and policy frameworks to support enterprise governance and compliance use cases.
• Architected distributed agent-based AI systems using CrewAI, LangGraph, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable autonomous enterprise workflows.
• Designed and deployed AI systems on GPU-accelerated OpenShift clusters using watsonx.ai and vector databases to support high-throughput inference and real-time decision intelligence.
• Led multiple innovation workstreams simultaneously, coordinating engineering efforts across applied research, product prototyping, and early enterprise deployments.
• Served as Technical Lead and Architect for ConveyorAI, an ML workflow automation platform that later evolved into DevFlow and influenced IBM Watson Code Assistant.
• Mentored engineers and established architectural patterns that accelerated the development of IBM’s emerging AI ecosystem.
Technologies and skills most leveraged:
CrewAI, LangGraph, MCP, Watsonx Orchestrate, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, IBM Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Milvus, RAG, Generative AI, Terraform, DevSecOps, Cluade Code, Product Management, Technical Leadership
2018 — 2021
2018 — 2021
Boston, MA
Architected and delivered large-scale conversational AI systems powering Fidelity’s customer service platforms, handling ~1.5M daily interactions and driving significant call-deflection cost savings, including the end-to-end integration of enterprise telephony systems with the NLP conversation service to enable real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech workflows across phone and web channels.
Led architecture and development of core features for Fidelity’s virtual assistant, including live-agent escalation, multi-provider NLU integrations, and personalized conversational flows.
Designed and implemented end-to-end bot deployment pipelines for AWS Lex, including versioning, testing, CI/CD, and production rollout.
Established testing and DevOps best practices across the AI platform, improving system reliability and deployment velocity.
2015 — 2018
2015 — 2018
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
As a FullStack Javascript Engineer, built and architected internal applications from the ground up.
• Developed a budgeting website for Fidelity's UXD department, enhancing project budgeting and forecasting, resulting in cost savings.
• Created Fidelity UXD's design panel website, a tool for designers to manage projects, share information, and integrate with internal APIs.
2014 — 2015
2014 — 2015
Framingham, MA
Member of the post order team in staples.com. Focusing mainly on the user interface.
Education
Kansas State University
Bachelor's degree
Bristol Community College
Associate's degree
2009 — 2012