Description

I’m a senior engineer and architect who ships production AI and the platforms underneath it. My focus: agentic LLM workflows, RAG that works on numeric/tabular content, and zero-copy overlays (models never see raw sources) with provenance/citations and evaluation gates. I pair that with solid engineering: async FastAPI services, event-driven integrations, vector DBs, React/Next.js admin UIs, and React Native apps (deployed to App Store & Google Play).

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Edinburgh (up to 50km)

AI / Platforms / Full-Stack
Independent Consultant
January 2018 - Today (8 years and 5 months)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• • LLM/RAG & Agentic Delivery
◦ o Designed and productionized agentic chains (retrieval → policy filter → calculators/converters → response assembly) with evaluation gates for faithfulness, latency, and cost.
◦ o Implemented zero-copy overlay and citation stamping to reduce leak risk and support audits; prompt/model registries, versioning, and guardrails.
◦ o Observability with LangSmith/Langfuse; built a custom graph-aware telemetry UI for domain-specific traces.
• • Platforms & APIs
◦ o Built Python FastAPI microservices (async) with Pydantic contracts, rate limiters, background jobs, NL→SQL validation, and hardened auth/RBAC.
◦ o Event-driven integrations: webhooks/queues, idempotent consumers, retries/DLQ; schema evolution and typed clients.
◦ o PDF automation service (TeX-grade outputs); immutable ledger for cask operations (audit trails; data contracts).
• • Frontend & Mobile
◦ o Next.js admin consoles and dashboards; React Native apps (iOS/Android) for engineering utilities and standards access.
• • Clients & Sectors
◦ o Standards & compliance (Fearnley Group), higher education (University of Edinburgh), transport (ScotRail, LNER), and SMEs with regulated data.
AI Automation Agentic AI & RAG LLM Agentic Workflow Orchestration LLM Evaluation, Safety & Observability
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