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Founder & Principal Engineer

Sparrow Intelligence πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States
πŸ“… 2024 β†’ Present (Ongoing)

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9+ Years Engineering Experience
100% Remote Operations
B2B Enterprise Focus

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πŸ€– AI & Machine Learning

πŸ”§ Supporting Stack

☁️ Infrastructure & DevOps

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Sparrow Intelligence is a systems-focused studio I founded to build AI-native backend platforms for engineering teams that demand reliability, clarity, and scale β€” not proof-of-concept demos that fall apart in production.

Our work typically begins where existing systems become hard to reason about: large codebases, fragmented documentation, and complex data flows that have outgrown their original architecture.

We specialize in transforming these challenges into well-structured, observable systems that engineering teams can confidently extend and maintain.

$ git log --oneline responsibilities/

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Architect and implement agentic AI workflows that autonomously handle complex, multi-step processes β€” from document analysis to decision support systems
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Design organization-wide knowledge systems using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) that surface relevant information from disparate data sources in real-time
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Build production-grade backend infrastructure with Python, Node.js, and Java that scales horizontally and maintains sub-100ms response times under load
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Lead cloud-native infrastructure design across AWS and GCP, implementing containerized deployments with Kubernetes for elastic scalability
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Develop vector search systems using PGVector and purpose-built embedding pipelines that enable semantic search across millions of documents
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Create API-first internal platforms that standardize how teams interact with AI capabilities, ensuring consistent interfaces and governance

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Built and operated AI-powered systems used by international teams across multiple time zones, handling thousands of daily queries with 99.9% uptime
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Modernized legacy platforms into scalable, observable, cloud-native stacks β€” reducing deployment time from hours to minutes while improving reliability
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Shipped systems designed for long-term evolution, not short-term hype β€” architectures that teams can extend and maintain without accruing technical debt
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Established Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations enabling AI agents to safely interact with external tools and data sources
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Developed custom RAG evaluation frameworks to measure and improve retrieval quality, achieving 85%+ relevance scores on domain-specific queries

$ cat CHALLENGES.md

Context Window Optimization for Large Codebases

πŸ”΄ Challenge:

Enterprise clients needed AI systems to reason about codebases with millions of lines of code, far exceeding any model's context window.

🟒 Solution:

Designed a hierarchical code indexing system using AST parsing and semantic embeddings. Implemented intelligent context selection that surfaces only the most relevant code snippets, reducing token usage by 80% while maintaining answer quality.

Tree-sitterPGVectorLangChainCustom Embeddings

Reliable Agentic Workflows at Scale

πŸ”΄ Challenge:

AI agents would hallucinate tool calls or enter infinite loops when handling complex multi-step tasks.

🟒 Solution:

Built a robust agent orchestration layer with structured output validation, retry strategies, and circuit breakers. Implemented comprehensive observability with LangSmith for debugging and monitoring agent behavior in production.

Real-time Knowledge Sync Across Systems

πŸ”΄ Challenge:

Knowledge bases became stale within hours as source documents were updated across multiple systems (Confluence, Notion, GitHub).

🟒 Solution:

Implemented event-driven ingestion pipelines with webhooks and polling fallbacks. Built incremental indexing that updates only changed documents, reducing sync time from hours to under 5 minutes.

RabbitMQFastAPIPostgreSQLBackground Workers

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Why I Started Sparrow Intelligence

After nearly a decade of building backend systems and witnessing the AI revolution firsthand at companies like Anaqua and Flowrite, I saw a clear gap in the market: most AI implementations fail not because of the AI, but because of poor engineering.

Teams were excited about LLMs but struggled with:

  • Integrating AI into existing systems without disrupting workflows
  • Building retrieval systems that actually return relevant results
  • Creating agents that are reliable enough for production use
  • Scaling AI workloads without costs spiraling out of control

Sparrow Intelligence exists to bridge this gap β€” bringing senior engineering rigor to AI implementation.

Our Technical Philosophy

Production-First Architecture

Every system we build starts with observability, monitoring, and graceful degradation. We design for the failure modes that demos never encounter.

Semantic-First Data Design

We treat embeddings and vector stores as first-class citizens in our data architecture, not afterthoughts. This enables powerful semantic search and retrieval from day one.

Composable AI Components

Rather than monolithic AI systems, we build composable components that can be independently tested, deployed, and scaled. This reduces risk and accelerates iteration.

Open to Collaboration

I’m selectively taking on B2B partnerships and long-term engineering collaborations with teams that:

  • Have complex technical challenges that require senior expertise
  • Value reliability and maintainability over speed-to-demo
  • Are building products where AI is core to the value proposition

If this resonates, let’s talk: Book a Meeting


Technologies: LangChain, RAG Systems, AI Agents, FastAPI, Python, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, MCP

Similar Roles: AI Backend Lead at Anaqua | Senior Engineer at Flowrite

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