Senior engineer / Production AI
Daniel Parker
Senior AI Software Engineer
Summary
Senior AI Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building custom software, e-commerce platforms, machine-learning systems, and production AI applications. Experienced in end-to-end AI agents, voice automation, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, recommendations, CRM integrations, and customer-facing SaaS. Owns complex products from requirements and architecture through development, evaluation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement.
Professional experience
Proven ROI
Senior AI Software Engineer
Austin, Texas
- Led architecture and delivery of a multi-tenant AI revenue-operations platform built with React, Next.js, FastAPI, LangGraph, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, and AWS, supporting 18 client workspaces and 75+ configurable AI and automation workflows.
- Built inbound and outbound voice agents for lead qualification, scheduling, customer support, campaign follow-up, and after-hours coverage, processing approximately 4,500 calls per month through Vapi, Deepgram, OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and Twilio.
- Introduced a provider-independent speech and model layer across Deepgram, Amazon Transcribe, ElevenLabs, Amazon Polly, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon Bedrock, routing by latency, quality, availability, and cost with automatic failover.
- Connected voice and chat agents with HubSpot, Salesforce, and GoHighLevel for customer context, lead scoring, CRM updates, meeting scheduling, confirmations, and qualified-call transfers.
- Improved grounded-answer accuracy by 24% with permission-aware RAG over websites, pricing, policies, campaign history, and sales documentation using pgvector, OpenSearch, metadata filtering, reranking, citations, and confidence-based escalation.
- Reworked lead-management automation around EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, n8n, idempotent APIs, retry policies, audit logs, and approval gates, reducing repetitive work by 61% and average response time from 26 minutes to under three minutes.
- Standardized deployment, observability, and AI evaluation with Docker, ECS Fargate, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, and Sentry; built 450+ test conversations, added safeguards for high-risk behavior, and mentored four engineers.
Technology: React · Next.js · FastAPI · LangGraph · PostgreSQL · pgvector · Redis · OpenSearch · OpenAI · Anthropic · Amazon Bedrock · Vapi · Deepgram · ElevenLabs · Twilio · AWS · Docker · ECS Fargate · Terraform · OpenTelemetry · Langfuse
Faire
AI/ML Software Engineer
San Francisco, California
- Delivered supplier onboarding, catalog management, wholesale ordering, retailer accounts, payments, inventory visibility, and order tracking with React, TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS for approximately 9,000 retailers, 1,200 suppliers, and 620,000 listings.
- Designed personalized recommendation services with collaborative filtering, PyTorch ranking models, product embeddings, behavioral data, and Amazon Personalize experiments, increasing recommendation click-through rate by 15% and average order value by 7%.
- Rebuilt product discovery with Elasticsearch, Amazon OpenSearch Service, synonym expansion, behavioral ranking signals, learning-to-rank, Pinecone, and OpenAI embeddings, reducing zero-result searches by 22%.
- Automated product classification, attribute extraction, supplier-data normalization, duplicate detection, and description generation across approximately 140,000 monthly catalog updates, cutting manual review effort by 46%.
- Trained XGBoost and neural-network forecasting models using order history, seasonality, promotions, pricing, supplier lead times, and category trends, reducing forecast error by 14% and stockouts by 17%.
- Productionized ML and generative-AI services with SageMaker, FastAPI, ECS, Lambda, Airflow, Step Functions, Docker, MLflow, and CloudWatch, maintaining 99.9% availability and improving inference latency by 36%; also delivered a GPT-3.5 Turbo support pilot that raised schema-valid outputs from 71% to 88%.
Technology: React · TypeScript · Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · PyTorch · XGBoost · Amazon Personalize · Elasticsearch · OpenSearch · Pinecone · OpenAI embeddings · SageMaker · AWS · Airflow · MLflow
KitelyTech
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois
- Shipped 11 responsive web applications and SaaS products with React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and AWS for professional services, retail, logistics, and business operations clients.
- Created 35+ reusable REST API endpoints for authentication, accounts, payments, scheduling, document processing, notifications, and reporting; integrated Stripe, Salesforce, Twilio, Google Maps, and logistics platforms to accelerate client integrations and reduce development effort.
- Developed a multi-tenant operations platform with role-based access control, configurable workflows, reporting dashboards, audit histories, and customer self-service capabilities for more than 2,400 business users.
- Modernized four legacy applications into modular cloud-hosted services using Docker, AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Nginx, automated database migrations, and GitHub Actions, increasing deployment frequency from biweekly to three or four releases per week.
- Improved performance and reliability through Jest and Pytest automation, SQL optimization, caching, structured logging, monitoring, and root-cause analysis, reducing average API response time by 41% and production incidents by 29%.
Technology: React · TypeScript · Node.js · Python · Django · PostgreSQL · AWS · Docker · EC2 · RDS · S3 · GitHub Actions · Jest · Pytest
Technical capabilities
AI Agents & Orchestration
OpenAI API · Anthropic Claude · Amazon Bedrock · OpenAI Agents SDK · LangGraph · LangChain · Function Calling · MCP · Structured Outputs · Agent Orchestration · Prompt Engineering · Context Engineering · Model Evaluation · Fine-tuning
Retrieval & Search
RAG · Embeddings · pgvector · Pinecone · OpenSearch · Elasticsearch · Hybrid Retrieval · Metadata Filtering · Reranking
Voice AI
Vapi · Deepgram · ElevenLabs · Twilio · WebRTC · SIP · Amazon Transcribe · Amazon Polly · Streaming Transcription · Text-to-Speech · Voice Activity Detection · Endpointing · Interruption Handling
Machine Learning
PyTorch · TensorFlow · XGBoost · scikit-learn · pandas · NumPy · SageMaker · Amazon Personalize · Recommendation Systems · Collaborative Filtering · Learning-to-Rank · Classification · Forecasting
Backend & APIs
Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · FastAPI · Node.js · Express.js · Django · REST · GraphQL · WebSockets · Microservices · Event-driven Systems
Frontend
TypeScript · JavaScript · React · Next.js · Redux · Tailwind CSS
Data
PostgreSQL · Redis · MongoDB · MySQL · pgvector · Pinecone · Elasticsearch · Amazon OpenSearch Service
Automation & Integrations
n8n · Make · GoHighLevel · HubSpot · Salesforce · Google Ads API · Meta Marketing API · Webhooks · CRM Automation · Appointment Scheduling
Infrastructure
AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · CI/CD · ECS · Lambda · SQS · EventBridge · Step Functions · RDS · S3 · Airflow
Observability & Reliability
OpenTelemetry · CloudWatch · Langfuse · Sentry · MLflow · Automated Testing · RBAC · OAuth 2.0 · Secrets Management · Structured Logging · Audit Trails
Education
University of Chicago
Bachelor’s Degree
September 2013 — June 2017
Chicago, Illinois