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Personal Background:
I architect production AI systems for financial institutions and other highly regulated enterprises. The pattern I have seen across a decade in this space: the demo takes a week, the deployment takes a quarter, and the gap is never model capability. It is evals, guardrails, audit trails, and a governance story that risk and compliance teams can sign their names to. That gap is where I work.
I am an Advanced AI Architect Manager at Accenture, designing agentic AI and LLM architectures that take enterprises from promising pilot to governed production. I am equally at home whiteboarding with engineering teams and sitting across from CIOs, CAIOs, and model risk leaders, because I have spent my career on both sides of that table — and I build teams that can hold the architecture after I leave the room.
My background is finance-native. At FICO I was a Principal AI Engineer and founding member of the GenAI Engineering team, leading engineers who built production Claude and MCP-based agentic systems serving Tier-1 banks under multi-cloud, multi-tenant compliance constraints. Before that: Tech Lead at Vertex Inc, a global leader in tax technology; Senior ML Engineer at S&P 500 company LabCorp, building AI across drug diagnostics, drug development and operations (see Labcorp SEC filings here); enterprise Data Scientist at Bayer, a EURO STOXX 50 company; Quantitative Researcher (apprenticeship) at AQR, on alternative quantitative strategies and factor-based trading; and Equity Trader at T3 Trading on Wall Street, formerly Series 56 licensed by FINRA. I speak model risk and system design as native languages. I have been in AI/ML since 2015 and data science since 2014, across Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and most recently Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-agent systems and Generative AI — often at 10M+-user scale.
I also teach as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Pace University and build production software end to end as a solo developer, which keeps my architecture opinions honest. I run a small algorithmic-trading fund (since 2011) and a monetized YouTube Channel — feel free to connect on LinkedIn.
Though I began in finance, my AI career grew out of academia. I was a PhD student in Statistics at Columbia University from September 2020 to December 2021, hold a B.A. in Math and an M.S. in Finance from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. My research centers on representation learning — Feature Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision (CV), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) — with earlier work in Financial Economics and Asset Pricing. I also teach graduate-level AI/ML and mentor students and early-career engineers, translating research into systems teams can own and run.
Architecture & Infrastructure Patterns:
Across a decade of building and shipping full-stack production systems — from whiteboard to POC to MVP to production, and on to scale at 10M+ users — I operate as a platform engineer at the director / senior-director level: architecting, building, and running cloud-native, event-driven AI infrastructure end to end, solo or as lead. I work from a matrix of the stack I apply across regulated industries — frontend through cloud-agnostic deployment — with security and scalability designed in from day one.
That full matrix is its own page: Architecture & Infrastructure Patterns — ten stack layers across logistics, healthcare, banking, education and fintech, with the two isolation problems that are genuinely hard (multi-tenant data isolation and credential isolation in agent tool-calling) written up in full.
Passion Project:
At leisure, I run W.Y.N. Associates, LLC, a registered legal entity in the state of New York, to pilot and drive for-profit personal passion projects.
- Clawdeck — an AI chatbot with its own cloud computer: chat with your files while it writes code, runs terminals, and builds documents for you.
- DeepSpeed Course — distributed training with DeepSpeed: multi-GPU examples and practical guides for neural nets and Hugging Face models.