Arlington, VA · Open to AI Safety & Governance Roles
AI Safety and Governance | Controls for LLM and Agent Systems in Financial Services
I build the controls that keep AI systems safe to run and auditable, and I find the errors that make results look better than they are.
I architect systems, direct AI coding agents to build them, and verify their output with tests and CI. The controls are the evidence: look-ahead scanning, a sizing-order check and a golden-regression baseline enforced in CI, ask-first gates on the agents, and an evaluation harness that enforces pre-registration. Before that, five years in research, where I tested an LLM pipeline against pre-coded data before it replaced a vendor contract.
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Founder and Engineer. A paper-stage system with live-grade architecture. It has not traded real capital and makes no performance claims. The work to look at is the controls: look-ahead scanning, a sizing-order check and a golden-regression baseline enforced in CI. I architect it and direct AI coding agents, and tests and CI verify their output.
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An evaluation harness that tests whether instruction changes help local coding agents. It plants defects, judges results with issue-clustered statistics and enforces pre-registration. Its clearest finding: file protection came from the permission layer, not from model behavior. Designed and directed by me, built with AI coding agents and verified by tests. Public since October 2026.
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Data Analyst, Operations at SimpsonScarborough. Three case studies: an LLM pipeline tested against pre-coded datasets before it replaced a $50k contract, AI-assisted automation of data preparation, and a survey-to-BigQuery pipeline feeding a live Tableau dashboard. Each one documents the problem, the fix and a measured result.
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A local agent designed so the model never receives a shell: what it proposes goes through five gates before anything runs. In progress and not yet public.
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Five years of research and operations. Every layer of the stack. The full picture.
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AI Safety & Governance
Agent Permission Gates / Evaluation Design / Pre-registration / Issue-Clustered Statistics / CI Guardrails / Look-ahead Controls / Audit Trails
AI & Automation
LLM Integration / Prompt Engineering / Workflow Automation / AI Tool Evaluation
Data Infrastructure
Pipeline Design / REST APIs / ETL Processes / Google BigQuery / Tableau / SPSS / Data Cleaning
Research
Survey Design / Sample Design / Market Research / Thematic Synthesis / Statistical Analysis / Presenting Findings
Agentic Development
Directing AI Coding Agents / Test & CI Verification / Python, R, SQL & Excel VBA (AI-Assisted) / SPSS Syntax
Platforms & Tools
Excel (Advanced) / Qualtrics / Microsoft Access / GitHub / Google Suite / Microsoft 365
Inductive Reasoning / Foresight / Analytical Reasoning / Systems Thinking / Independent Problem Solving
Open first to AI safety, governance and compliance roles, especially in financial services: AI governance, AI risk, model risk and AI evaluation. Also open to AI implementation and research operations work. Reach out directly or use the form.
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