Professional summary
AI Architect at Synechron with 23+ years in software engineering, 21+ years in Java, and 12+ years in Spring. Designs and builds production AI platforms, distributed services, integrations, data workflows, deployment automation, and operational controls for regulated enterprises.
Ownership spans domain discovery, architecture, hands-on implementation, integration, evaluation, deployment, production hardening, and adoption.
- Current
- AI Architect at Synechron
- Location
- Glendale / Los Angeles, California
- Authorization
- U.S. citizen; no sponsorship required
- Education
- B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cal Poly Pomona
Core capabilities
Architecture
AI platforms / Distributed systems / Service boundaries / Domain modeling / Enterprise integration / Digital transformation
Core engineering
Java / Spring Boot / Spring AI / Python / REST APIs / Kafka / RabbitMQ / Security / Testing
Applied AI
OpenAI / Anthropic / Claude Code / Vertex AI / RAG / PGVector / Chroma / Ollama / Structured outputs / Evals / Agent workflows
Cloud and data
AWS / GCP / Azure / Docker / Kubernetes / Ansible / PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server / MongoDB / InfluxDB
Forward-deployed engineering
Domain immersion / Workflow audit / Constraint discovery / Stakeholder alignment / Solution ownership / Adoption / Production feedback
Professional experience
AI Architect / Lead Engineer
Synechron / Everi-IGT Platforms AI initiative
Operate as a forward-deployed AI architect: learn financial reporting and banking operations with domain experts, then lead architecture and delivery of the automation platform across Java, Spring AI, Python-supported validation, agents, and deployment automation.
- Audited financial-reporting workflows, source formats, reconciliation controls, and operational handoffs before translating them into automated services and AI-assisted workflows.
- Own technical direction while remaining hands-on in APIs, service logic, persistence, validation, integration workflows, tests, and production hardening.
- Built a context-first engineering model for Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot using source evidence, knowledge bases, agent instructions, and validation loops.
- Hardened ISO 20022 and BAI2-style processing, SFTP and bank-report integrations, tie-out pipelines, duplicate detection, and downstream REST APIs.
AI Lead Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant / Elevance Health Medicare digitalization
Embedded in the Individual Medicare plan lifecycle, audited how plans are built and marketed, and led the AI-enabled transformation across Java/Spring services, Python-supported workflows, healthcare rules, and digital integrations.
- Supported expansion of plan-production scope from four to 372 Individual Medicare plans during the 2025 engagement through source-grounded automation, domain-rule validation, traceability, and human review.
- Designed patterns for extracting, organizing, validating, and operationalizing healthcare plan information.
- Established source-grounded guardrails to reduce hallucination risk and preserve regulated-domain correctness.
Senior Software Engineer
Deloitte Consulting / BMO / Walmart / American Home Insurance
Delivered banking, payments, retail optimization, insurance, mobile integration, and AI-assisted enterprise modernization programs.
- Learned BMO payment-processing operations and built a new processing engine spanning debit and credit workflows, payment integrations, geofencing, suspicious-activity detection, and mobile-facing transaction APIs.
- Led AI-integrated delivery-optimization microservices and Kafka data pipelines for Walmart store operations.
- Architected authentication and integration modules and delivered a new insurance line-of-business product ahead of schedule.
Senior Software Engineer
TSS Wireless / Transportation and IoT
Modernized dispatch systems into event-driven Spring Boot services with real-time tracking, streaming telemetry, and mobile field operations.
Lead Project Development Engineer
Bridge Entertainment / Epoll / SaaS and cloud modernization
Owned architecture, implementation, AWS migration, deployment automation, and production support for high-volume SaaS and survey platforms.
Lead Development Engineer
Lakeshore Learning Materials / B2B marketplace
Led B2B marketplace delivery and migrated legacy .NET capabilities into Java/J2EE and Spring applications.
Senior Software Engineer
MTS Integratrack / MVNO telecom platform
Built carrier-integrated activation, refill, provisioning, and account platforms; contributed to capabilities used by millions and approximately 200x customer growth over four months.
Software Engineer
PFI Software / Construction management software
Developed secure enterprise Java web applications, custom JSP components, servlets, JDBC persistence, and distributed-team workflows.