17+ years architecting secure, large-scale enterprise systems, and 2+ years building production Generative AI platforms — RAG pipelines, MCP servers, and AI agent integrations — for regulated financial services. I bring security and compliance rigor to applied AI system design.
I'm an AI Architect and engineering leader with a background most GenAI builders don't have: nearly two decades designing identity, authentication, and API security systems for regulated financial institutions (U.S. Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FedEx, Citi). Over the last two years I've applied that same architectural discipline to Generative AI — designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines, MCP servers, and AI agent integrations that are grounded, auditable, and safe to run against sensitive enterprise data.
I partner closely with product, security, compliance, and architecture stakeholders to ship platforms that are both intelligent and enterprise-safe — favoring reusable, versioned, well-governed building blocks over one-off solutions.
A blend of applied AI systems and the enterprise security foundations that make them safe to deploy.
RAG pipeline design, embeddings, vector & semantic search, prompt orchestration, grounding, evaluation, and guardrails using Anthropic Claude and OpenAI.
Designing MCP servers that expose enterprise APIs, databases, and knowledge sources to AI assistants through controlled, auditable interfaces.
CIAM, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, SSO, MFA, federation, RBAC/ABAC, entitlements, and secure API patterns.
Reusable SDKs and identity libraries, Micro Frontends, versioning and backward-compatibility strategy.
Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Security, REST, SOAP, JPA, Hibernate, React JS.
AWS, Azure, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, CI/CD; engineering management, design reviews, and mentoring.
High-level views of recent architecture work. Full case studies with diagrams and code samples are being prepared from private repositories — check back soon.
Applied Generative AI
Associate
Colorado Technical University
Open to AI Architect, GenAI platform, and Staff+ engineering conversations. Reach out directly — I'll follow up promptly.