Hello, I'm Brian
Applied AI engineer. Build production systems end-to-end with Python, FastAPI, Salesforce APIs, RAG, and OAuth. 12+ years in fintech.
Actively seeking roles in Applied AI, Customer Integration, or AI Implementation. Available immediately, remote-friendly.
End-to-end ownership from discovery through customer delivery. Based in Chicago.
Featured Projects
Latest Work
Impact estimates are illustrative, modeled on the workflow each project targets, not measured client results.
Salesforce Intelligence
A retrieval-augmented chat assistant built on live Salesforce data, letting support and sales teams ask natural-language questions about accounts, cases, and escalations and get sourced answers instantly.
Est. impact: Turns a multi-record manual lookup across Cases, Accounts, and Opportunities into one sourced answer in seconds.
Ticket Triage Lab
A support ticket classifier you build from scratch. Start with rule-based keyword matching, then integrate OpenAI API, measure accuracy on labeled examples, and understand the boundary between your Python code and an external API. Ten lessons, eight to twelve study sessions.
Est. impact: Complete understanding of Python fundamentals, API integration, and evaluation metrics.
SupportFlow Mini
A customer support ticket router with AI recommendation, human review gate, and webhook delivery. One problem, one model call, one human decision, one safe integration. Built with FastAPI, Pydantic schemas, SQLite, OpenAI, mock-first workflow design, and deterministic evaluation.
Est. impact: Complete workflow from customer ticket through AI recommendation, human review, to system integration with built-in metrics and evaluation.
Latest Writing
Blog
Deep dives into building AI systems, integrations, and customer-facing products. From architecture decisions to production deployment.
Where I've Been
Experience
Applied AI & Integration Engineer
Dec 2025 – PresentInsolla (Independent AI Practice) · Chicago, IL
- ›Run the complete discovery-to-delivery motion: stakeholder discovery calls, solution scoping, tailored demos, architecture design, and proof-of-concept builds, owned end-to-end.
- ›Produce production-grade AI systems: RAG over live CRM data, identity policy automation, document workflows with enterprise API integrations (REST, webhooks, iPaaS).
- ›Deliver full pre-sales artifacts: discovery brief, stakeholder map, technical walkthrough, security assessment, and POV plan tailored to each customer's unique systems and constraints.
- ›Measured impact: cut a small business's social media workflow from 8 hours a week to 10 minutes through automated content pipeline, shipped end-to-end.
Lead Front-End Developer
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025TerraFort (Freelance)
- ›Led design and development of a web and mobile platform at an early-stage startup, executing product initiatives from concept to delivery.
- ›Owned vendor-facing technical evaluations, scoping and integrating third-party and AI tooling into the product.
Senior Front-End Developer
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025OCC (Contract) · Chicago, IL
- ›Ran weekly stakeholder sessions at a systemically important financial market utility, covering goal setting, live progress demos, and open-question resolution.
- ›Delivered React and TypeScript solutions from Figma through production; implemented Mock Service Worker to unblock front-end work from backend dependencies.
Lead Front-End Developer
Oct 2020 – Jan 2024Marex · Chicago, IL
- ›Led the program that digitalized broker and trader onboarding, replacing a compliance-heavy, paper-based workflow with a fully digital process and measurably shortening the onboarding cycle.
- ›Integrated the DocuSign API to digitize document signing across all products.
- ›Led a five-person front-end team delivering stakeholder-driven solutions; designed and ran the team’s internship program.
Earlier Experience
What I Know
Skills
Applied AI
Integrations
Engineering
Customer Delivery
What People Say
Testimonials
Brian and I worked together on the User Experience team, where he was brought in to assist with front end development of our UIUX projects. He did a great job of quickly jumping in to the mix to work on several of our internal projects, bringing a willingness to learn and a positive attitude to every project. He is also very eager to suggest new approaches to projects and brings an innovative, forward-thinking mindset. He is a talented, energetic and very enthusiastic developer and would be a great asset to any team.
Brian is a hard working & focused user interface and user experience developer. In our time working together at R1, Brian was consistently dedicated and focused on complex projects, often times putting in significant extra work to help the team meet deadlines. He worked equally well with local teams in the office as well as teams based in India. Good teammate that will help you bring your UI/UX to the next level.
From LinkedIn, earlier in my front-end engineering career.