Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years building AI-powered applications, full-stack platforms, backend services, and automated quality systems across startup, enterprise, and client-facing environments. Strong background in React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Java, REST APIs, LLM integration, RAG, AI agents, AWS, Azure, SQL, CI/CD, and test automation. Experienced owning features end-to-end—from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and production support. Comfortable partnering across product, engineering, QA, and business teams to translate complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software.

Jarred Richards

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years building AI-powered applications, full-stack platforms, backend services, and automated quality systems across startup, enterprise, and client-facing environments. Strong background in React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Java, REST APIs, LLM integration, RAG, AI agents, AWS, Azure, SQL, CI/CD, and test automation. Experienced owning features end-to-end—from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and production support. Comfortable partnering across product, engineering, QA, and business teams to translate complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software.

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Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years building AI-powered applications, full-stack platforms, backend services, and automated quality systems across startup, enterprise, and client-facing environments. Strong background in React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Java, REST APIs, LLM integration, RAG, AI agents, AWS, Azure, SQL, CI/CD, and test automation.

Experienced owning features end-to-end—from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and production support. Comfortable partnering across product, engineering, QA, and business teams to translate complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Developer at Frontier Capital Solutions
March 1, 2023 - Present
Led development of customer-facing AI and full-stack applications, combining React, TypeScript, backend APIs, LLM integrations, and retrieval workflows from concept through production. Designed and implemented RAG-based applications (chunking, embeddings, metadata filtering, retrieval logic, structured prompting) to improve grounding. Built backend orchestration services in Python/Node.js to connect frontends with LLM providers, internal/third-party data, authentication, and business workflow logic. Developed agent-based automation workflows with routing, validation, state management, retries, and fallback behavior. Integrated commercial LLM APIs with production hardening (auth, rate limits, token constraints, structured responses, timeouts, retries, error states, graceful degradation). Implemented ingestion pipelines for RAG systems and built evaluation/regression workflows for AI feature quality prior to production releases. Owned features across frontend, backend, AI integration, te
Software Engineer / SDET at Hilton
February 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023
Developed and tested software supporting Hilton’s digital guest and reservation experiences across API, integration, and user-facing workflows where reliability impacted booking and hotel operations. Built automated API and end-to-end tests for reservation workflows (search, availability, booking, modification, cancellation, authentication) across integrated test environments. Created maintainable test automation tooling using Java/JavaScript/Python to improve regression coverage. Investigated flaky/intermittent failures across distributed environments and performed root-cause analysis to separate defects from data, timing, dependency, and environment issues. Validated service-to-service workflows involving reservation, inventory, loyalty, payment, and property systems, focusing on data consistency and failure handling. Integrated automated tests into CI/CD workflows to shorten feedback cycles and improve quality gates. Supported production/preproduction defect debugging using logs a
Software Engineer at Union POS
October 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Developed software for hospitality workflows connecting guest ordering, point-of-sale operations, and payments with backend services where transaction accuracy and responsiveness were critical during high-volume periods. Built and maintained backend APIs for order and payment workflows with validation, clear service boundaries, and reliable request processing. Implemented defensive patterns to reduce duplicate operations and inconsistent states during retries or partial failures. Supported web/mobile-connected experiences for menus, orders, tabs, and payments while keeping backend state synchronized with venue workflows. Integrated payment-related lifecycle handling (authorization results, failures, retries, callbacks) and addressed reconciliation concerns typical in high-volume commerce. Contributed automated API/transactional tests covering edge cases and integration failures. Investigated production issues using logs, traces, database state, and reproducible scenarios; improved conf

Education

Software Engineering Certification at BloomTech (Lambda School)
August 1, 2018 - March 1, 2018
Full Stack Web Development Certification at General Assembly
December 30, 2021 - January 1, 2019

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Travel & Hospitality