Hello, I'm Brian
Product engineer with 13 years delivering customer-facing software, enterprise integrations, and regulated workflows. Now building applied AI applications focused on retrieval, source-grounded answers, and evaluation.
Available for product engineering roles · Chicago, IL · Remote OK
Featured Projects
Latest Work
Impact estimates are illustrative, modeled on the workflow each project targets, not measured client results.
Digital Onboarding at Marex
Led the digitization of broker and trader onboarding at a financial services firm, replacing a compliance-heavy paper workflow with an end-to-end digital process and integrating DocuSign across products.
Est. impact: Delivered with compliance, operations, and trading teams, and a five-person front-end team.
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.
Ask TanStack Query
A production RAG assistant that answers questions about TanStack Query with streaming responses and citations to official documentation. Includes a 150+ question evaluation suite with automated grading and a scoreboard tracking improvements.
Est. impact: Production RAG system with grounded answers, comprehensive evaluation pipeline, and deployment across multiple cloud providers.
Latest Writing
Blog
Deep dives into building AI applications, enterprise integrations, and customer-facing products. From architecture decisions to production deployment.
Where I've Been
Experience
Independent Applied AI & Integration Engineer
Dec 2025 – PresentInsolla (Consulting and portfolio practice) · Chicago, IL
- ›Scoped and delivered an automated content pipeline directly with a business owner, reducing a weekly social-media workflow from 8 hours to 10 minutes.
- ›Build AI and integration solutions connecting third-party platforms through REST APIs, webhooks, and automation tooling.
- ›Translate discovery into solution walkthroughs, security briefs, proof-of-value plans, and technical handoffs, documenting customer decisions, data risks, and implementation tradeoffs.
- ›Design Salesforce integrations with scoped access, OAuth 2.0 JWT authentication, source grounding, and human review.
Lead Front-End Developer
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025TerraFort (Freelance)
- ›Led design and development of an early-stage web and mobile platform from concept through delivery.
- ›Owned vendor evaluations and scoped third-party and AI integrations with UX, product, and backend teams.
Senior Front-End Developer
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025OCC (Contract) · Chicago, IL
- ›Ran weekly stakeholder sessions at a systemically important financial market utility, aligning goals, demonstrating progress, and resolving questions across workstreams.
- ›Delivered React and TypeScript solutions from Figma through testing, QA, and production.
- ›Implemented Mock Service Worker to unblock front-end development from backend dependencies.
Lead Front-End Developer
Oct 2020 – Jan 2024Marex · Chicago, IL
- ›Led digitization of broker and trader onboarding, replacing a compliance-heavy paper workflow with an end-to-end digital process.
- ›Partnered with compliance, operations, and trading teams to scope rollouts and support adoption.
- ›Integrated the DocuSign API across products to support digital document signing.
- ›Led a five-person front-end team and designed and ran the team’s internship program.
Earlier Experience
What I Know
Skills
AI Applications & Retrieval
Python & Backend
Integrations & Automation
Cloud Deployment
Customer Discovery & Delivery
Front-End Development
On My Bookshelf
Currently Reading
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
Chip Huyen
A guide to building real applications on top of foundation models.
Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer's Handbook
John Care and Aron Bohlig
A handbook on technical sales and the role of the sales engineer.
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.