Principal AI Infrastructure Engineer

Experienced Generalist Engineer with 12 years in startups and early-stage companies, including twice as a founding-engineer. Current interests include GIS, Elixir, applied AI, and alternative data. Capable of building ideas from scratch, scaling prototypes, and untangling legacy systems. Actively working on semantic trend analysis across podcasts using text embeddings, having developed a custom NUMA-sharded vector scan kernel outperforming DuckDB by 4x and an audio transcription system 10x cheaper than competitors. Currently scaling an ingestion pipeline. Open to contracting and employment, and happy to discuss work for hire.