Director of AI
Sep 2024 - PresentWasteLinq · Houston, TX
Building the AI layer for hazardous waste compliance: a multi-service platform that classifies waste, extracts and validates regulatory documents, and automates vendor portals, serving 200+ customers including a production agent shipped to a $3B enterprise.
- Shipped an AI waste-classification agent for Veolia end-to-end, fine-tuning Gemini on Vertex AI and deploying on AWS, generating 20K+ structured waste profiles per month
- Designed a human-in-the-loop manifest workflow that cut document processing time 85%, combining PDF extraction, AI validation, and EPA e-Manifest automation
- Built Profile Assist, a LangGraph agent running LLM inference on Baseten, with LangSmith tracing the LLM internals (tests assert per-run token and cost tracking against Baseten pricing metadata) and Sentry covering API and backend failures
- Built the QA/QC layer for the AI pipeline: structured-output contracts, deterministic regulatory rules, confidence-based routing to human review, and golden eval sets built with in-house waste-compliance experts, re-run on every model and prompt change
- Built the WASTELINQ MCP server, giving Claude and ChatGPT read-only access to customer reporting data: FastMCP on AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Cognito JWT auth with per-broker isolation, fed by a nightly Celery snapshot job with task-failure and freshness alarms
- Designed that server's context layer as tiered progressive disclosure: 21 report templates and ~700 fields served as list, then describe, then per-field detail, plus an on-demand agent-facing wiki, so a model loads only the context a question needs
- Built a 7-microservice AI platform (Lambda, Fargate, Terraform) plus a portal-automation product spanning 4 disposal-facility vendors
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