Architect and ship production AI systems and agent workflows with strong focus on explainability, auditability, and compliance for financial services. Build Python/FastAPI tooling, distributed event-driven backends, evaluation and monitoring pipelines, and occasional React/TypeScript UIs. Drive schema, API, and system architecture decisions and establish validation and quality-assurance patterns for AI outputs.

Hands-on Senior People Operations Manager owning US HR operations: Rippling platform administration, payroll, benefits, multi-state compliance, onboarding/offboarding, employee relations, performance processes, and people experience. Manage a People Ops teammate, improve systems with AI tooling, and support compensation governance and engagement initiatives to drive a high-performance culture.