Agentic AI Safety Architect and Staff Systems Engineer with 25+ years of production experience building and deploying real-world agentic AI systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I design and orchestrate autonomous coding assistants, multi-agent research teams, RAG knowledge agents, and customer-support bots with production-grade orchestration and strict human-in-the-loop controls. I architect full-stack agent capabilities (perception, planning, action), implement rigorous LLMOps evaluation pipelines, and enforce ethics/safety guardrails through contract boundaries, memory/state management, and sandboxing layers. I also fine-tune and self-host open-source models on private GPU clusters, with a focus on preventing unsafe tool access and blocking insecure code from reaching production.

Serge Shuster

Agentic AI Safety Architect and Staff Systems Engineer with 25+ years of production experience building and deploying real-world agentic AI systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I design and orchestrate autonomous coding assistants, multi-agent research teams, RAG knowledge agents, and customer-support bots with production-grade orchestration and strict human-in-the-loop controls. I architect full-stack agent capabilities (perception, planning, action), implement rigorous LLMOps evaluation pipelines, and enforce ethics/safety guardrails through contract boundaries, memory/state management, and sandboxing layers. I also fine-tune and self-host open-source models on private GPU clusters, with a focus on preventing unsafe tool access and blocking insecure code from reaching production.

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Agentic AI Safety Architect and Staff Systems Engineer with 25+ years of production experience building and deploying real-world agentic AI systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I design and orchestrate autonomous coding assistants, multi-agent research teams, RAG knowledge agents, and customer-support bots with production-grade orchestration and strict human-in-the-loop controls.

I architect full-stack agent capabilities (perception, planning, action), implement rigorous LLMOps evaluation pipelines, and enforce ethics/safety guardrails through contract boundaries, memory/state management, and sandboxing layers. I also fine-tune and self-host open-source models on private GPU clusters, with a focus on preventing unsafe tool access and blocking insecure code from reaching production.

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Work Experience

Agentic AI Safety Architect & Multi-Agent Systems Auditor at Magical Industries
January 1, 2024 - Present
Architect and orchestrate agentic deployments including autonomous coding assistants, multi-agent research teams, RAG knowledge agents, and customer-support bots using LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, and PydanticAI across AWS/GCP/Azure. Use MCP and A2A to define secure tool use and cross-agent communication with contract boundaries. Deploy self-hosted LLM-driven coding agents on private GPU clusters (vLLM/Ollama/SGLang) with human-in-the-loop approval gates for high-risk actions. Build multi-agent workflows (e.g., deterministic research/report generation) with Temporal orchestration and rollback on failure. Apply LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning using Unsloth/Transformers and implement ethics/safety guardrails for production release, including memory/state handling to prevent sensitive-data leakage and unsafe execution persistence.
Systems Engineer & Agentic Code Safety Lead at Wells Fargo
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2024
Established enterprise-wide code-review and static-analysis pipelines for C++, Java, and Python, enforcing safe concurrency patterns and memory-safety practices. Led production incident response for low-latency C++ systems, addressing memory leaks and race conditions and improving outage reduction through root-cause debugging. Built and hardened real-time analytics engines handling millions of transactions daily, with focus on finding undefined behavior under load. Implemented Python/C++ interop with strict validation gates preventing unsafe memory access from AI-generated scripts. Mentored engineers on production debugging (Valgrind/ASan/TSan/UBSan) and on writing code that survives regulatory audit and stress testing; validated AI-generated CUDA kernels and memory allocation patterns before release.
AI/ML Infrastructure & Agentic Systems Safety Lead at Magical Industries
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Deployed end-to-end ML and agentic pipelines using SageMaker, Kubeflow, Dataflow, and Docker across AWS/GCP/Azure, serving as final reviewer for AI-generated configurations and deployment scripts. Developed C++/Java real-time market-data ingestion services integrated with Python ML backends, targeting <5ms latency while enforcing strict language-boundary safety contracts. Built voice-controlled conversational AI applications (Python/Java/JavaScript) on AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions and audited generated code for injection flaws and async race conditions.
Production Systems Engineer & Code Safety Validator at Morgan Stanley
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Built and maintained C++ and Java analytics engines for cross-asset risk systems, acting as final human reviewer for all production release code changes. Developed Python data pipelines for automated order validation and corrected AI-assisted code generation that introduced subtle race conditions in concurrent stream processing. Provided production support for automated trading systems, diagnosing Heisenbugs, memory leaks, and concurrency failures across mixed C++/Python/Java codebases under peak load, including issues that passed basic tests and looked correct to junior reviewers.
Systems Engineering Director & AI Code Validator at Guggenheim Partners / Mezocliq
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2019
Engineered Python deep-learning models for structured-product analytics and personally reviewed C++ inference runtimes and Python bindings for memory safety prior to production deployment. Designed reinforcement-learning frameworks with custom guardrails preventing unbounded recursion and other risky behaviors from AI-generated strategies. Architected NLP pipelines for real-time sentiment analysis and validated generated JavaScript/Python service code for injection vulnerabilities and async race conditions.
Quantitative Systems Engineer & Data Safety Lead at Federal Reserve Bank of New York
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016
Designed secure analytics and data frameworks (Python/C++) for regulatory market-data processing with strict input validation and memory-safety requirements. Built streaming CEP analytics in Java and reviewed template-based/generated Java code for thread-safety and resource leaks. Developed ML/regression methods for predicting missing data and correcting anomalies, validating numerical stability and safe memory usage for all model implementations.
Senior Systems Engineer & Production Debugger at JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, S&P, Barclays Capital, Greenwich Capital Markets, GAT/BARRA
January 1, 1995 - January 1, 2015
20+ years of C/C++ systems development for low-latency pricing and high-frequency distributed systems, serving as final code-review authority on production releases. Specialized in catching undefined behavior, implicit conversions, buffer overruns, and race conditions that passed compiler checks and unit tests. Implemented Monte-Carlo and lattice-based numerical engines with zero tolerance for memory leaks and non-deterministic floating-point behavior under concurrency. Led emergency debugging and identified single-line causes of segfaults or deadlocks under load, including issues from AI-assisted or junior-written code. Designed/optimized ML-heuristic and mixed-integer programming systems with strict validation to prevent unsafe memory access and unbounded loops.

Education

Ph.D. (ABD) in Economics at CUNY Queens College
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2014
M.S. in Mathematics & Computer Science at Novosibirsk University
January 1, 1991 - January 1, 1991
M.S. in Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2010
M.A. in Economics at CUNY Queens College
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2007

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Financial Services, Professional Services, Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics