Principal AI/Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Experienced Generalist Engineer with 12 years in startups and early-stage companies, including two founding-engineer roles. Specializes in Infrastructure, Backend, and AI-Applications, with prototyping frontend skills. Current interests include Elixir, GIS, applied AI, and alternative data. Capable of building ideas from scratch, scaling prototypes, and untangling legacy systems. Recently developed a podcast trends analysis system involving transcription of hundreds of millions of words, embedding, and topic prevalence breakdowns. Actively working on optimizing transcription with spot-GPUs and speeding up analytical queries using columnar data stores, exploring custom NUMA-sharded vector-scan kernels. Open to both contracting and employment opportunities.