August 2024 - Present

Onetera Technologies Inc.

Forward Deployed AI Engineer — Founding Team

Most AI demos don't survive contact with government infrastructure. I joined Onetera as a founding engineer to make sure ours did.

I'm building the AI backbone for government-scale citizen services — systems that real people depend on to navigate housing, benefits, and public records. The stakes are different here. Latency isn't a UX metric; it's the difference between a citizen getting help or giving up.

I architected a semantic search engine across millions of government documents — vector-indexed, retrieval-benchmarked, returning accurate answers in under one second at scale. I built a multimodal AI compliance layer with model-tiering and confidence-based escalation that cut LLM costs by 60% while keeping SLAs intact. And I institutionalized a cross-model reliability framework — hallucination detection, response-consistency scoring — that made our outputs trustworthy enough for government deployment.

I engineered end-to-end traceability across every AI decision — full observability from prompt to response, so every output could be audited, explained, and trusted. Reliability wasn't a feature; it was the foundation — built into the infrastructure so the system held under real-world load without human babysitting.

What I care about most here is the constraint: build AI that's fast, honest, and explainable — not just to engineers, but to citizens and policymakers who have every reason to distrust it.

January 2023 - May 2024

California State University Fullerton

Graduate Teaching Associate

Instructed 150+ students in learning React, covering key topics like component-based architecture, API integration, and state management, while guiding them in utilizing Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration.

August 2020 - August 2022

Accenture Solutions Private Limited

Software Engineer

Before AI dominated engineering, I learned what it means to build systems that actually scale.

At Accenture, I operated above my title — making architecture decisions, defining engineering standards, and presenting technical roadmaps directly to enterprise client leadership.

I architected a mission-critical platform consolidating 30 subsidiary applications into one unified system — serving 3,000+ daily active users on Azure with zero downtime. I built a React Component Library adopted as the org-wide engineering standard, eliminating 40% UI fragmentation across a large-scale POS platform. I drove architectural decision-making across engineering and client leadership, translating complex technical tradeoffs into executive-level roadmaps.

The most important thing I learned here wasn't technical. It was that great engineering is about decisions that hold up at scale, under pressure, with real business consequences.

Stack: React · GraphQL · Express.js · Azure · MySQL · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · Terraform · Splunk · Jest