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AI engineering in production

I build LLM features into products and make agents useful to whole engineering teams. Staff engineer with 10+ years shipping production systems. I work spec-first, with agents, and still ship code every week.

The work below is applied AI: product features, agents, retrieval, MCP and governance. It is not model training. What ties it together is production discipline.

// how-i-approach-it

  • Ground it

    Prompts are built from structured data the system already has. When the data is not enough, the model says so instead of guessing.

  • Deterministic checks decide

    Merges, validation and gates run on checks that behave the same way every time. The LLM advises; it doesn't decide.

  • Stay provider-independent

    LLM calls go through a provider-agnostic service with fallbacks and identity-based auth, not hard-wired API keys.

  • Agents are teammates

    They get skills, a knowledge base and the same standards as people, so a whole team gets faster, not just one engineer.

// case-studies

// daily-practice

I work with Claude Code (skills, hooks, agents, playbooks, session initialization and repo-level agent instructions), Cursor and GitHub Copilot. AI-assisted review is a standing control, not an experiment.

// tools-and-techniques

LLM integration (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic SDKs), tool-using agents, MCP servers, retrieval over structured knowledge, prompt design with grounding and constrained output, Claude Code skills, hooks and agents, Cursor, Copilot, Terraform-provisioned model infrastructure, workload identity.