Software engineer building production AI systems: agent memory, retrieval, and evaluation. A decade of work on quantitative data architectures, RAG-style pipelines, and tool-using agents in Python and Go. Comfortable turning ambiguous research ideas into measured product capabilities with traces, eval harnesses, and tight latency/cost budgets.

Experience

Founder & Senior AI Software Architect

Bountystash
Jun 2020 - Sep 2026

Bountystash is a technology based on information theory, risk analysis, and market data.

  • Designed production knowledge-base pipelines that extract structured facts from unstructured documents and assemble retrieval context for downstream agents
  • Built modular agent workflows with tool calling and Model Context Protocol so autonomous routines hit company APIs under explicit permissions
  • Shipped evaluation harnesses that measure answer quality, hallucination rate, retrieval relevance, and tool-call reliability on every CI cycle
  • Implemented Python and Go data pipelines that join relational sources with embedding indexes for low-latency context assembly
  • Investigated production failures with traces and datasets, then iterated ranking and prompting against measured regressions
  • Built risk-adjusted PPA and weather-derivative models for energy traders (in-house risk manager)

Asset Manager

O3 Energy
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020

O3 Energy has been rated as one of the top solar developers/contractors in the US.

  • Owned commercial and technical steering of a 100M+ USD / 10 MW solar portfolio, including provenance of operational and financial data
  • Built dynamic models for entity-level risk, scenario analysis, and temporal performance of energy assets
  • Shipped an internal mobile capture app that resolved project entities and fed a structured opportunity pipeline
  • Designed a risk system that scored portfolio exposures and produced auditable traces for banks and transaction advisors
  • Documented and managed software and IT admin for the company and subsidiaries

Director of Sustainability

Smart Energy 360
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016

Smart Energy 360 is a top energy provider in the region.

  • Ran a 100M+ USD project pipeline and translated client requirements into technical solution designs
  • Advised on cybersecurity and risk tooling for energy operators
  • Built sales and support processes that connected unstructured client intake to structured delivery plans

Student Researcher

Fraunhofer ISE
Mar 2012 - Sep 2012

A world-renowned research institute in Germany and a foremost in solar technologies.

  • Wrote C++ interfaces to scientific measurement systems and Python analysis for 3D geometry and error traces
  • Verified geometric calculations in Mathematica and scored measurement-system failures in a research setting
  • Conducted research on heliostat imperfections using interferometry

Associate Technical Professional

Halliburton
Jun 2010 - Sep 2011

Halliburton is one of the top oil and gas service companies, Bakken Shale, Williston ND.

  • Led two field crews on 3M+ USD/week operations with on-site equipment and chemical troubleshooting
  • Shipped Excel engineering tools that replaced ad-hoc calculation and improved operational feedback loops
  • Worked 12-hour field shifts; implemented new engineering spreadsheets

Projects

Risk Calculation Engine (Swirl Engine)

A polyglot risk calculation engine implementing Green's Theorem (Shoelace Formula) for stochastic shape analysis.

  • Architected a Green's Theorem engine for stochastic polygon area calculation as a stress test of numerical pipelines
  • Implemented a Go shape fuzzer generating provenance-tagged synthetic geometry
  • Automated the data path with Nushell and Awk; containerized with Nix Flakes for reproducible Go builds

Master's Thesis

Artificial Intelligence applied to weather prediction

  • Developed a time-cross-correlation method for wind-velocity data with a measured +70% accuracy lift
  • Trained neural nets on long-horizon weather series to improve grid economics of intermittent solar and wind

Postgraduate Renewable Energy

Post-graduate research in renewable energy

  • Analyzed hydrogen production and storage projects using RETScreen
  • Post-graduate research in renewable energy
  • Solar, Wind, Geothermal, and Bioenergy modules completed under the UNU programme

Education

University of Freiburg

Master of Science in Renewable Energy Management • 1,8/5,0
Nov 2011 - Feb 2014

Colorado School of Mines

Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering • 3.2 GPA
Aug 2006 - May 2010