I'm Joshua Sommers, a Senior Software Engineer based in Phoenix, AZ, focused on LLM and AI system design with 8+ years of experience building production-grade intelligent applications. I specialize in RAG architectures, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM evaluation/guardrails, with a track record deploying AI copilots and decision systems at scale for hundreds of thousands of users. I blend deep technical execution with product thinking to deliver low-latency, reliable AI systems in real-world environments. My background spans Python, FastAPI, and distributed systems, with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I design and implement end-to-end ML/NLP pipelines, guardrails, monitoring, and governance to keep AI features safe and scalable in production.

Joshua Sommers

I'm Joshua Sommers, a Senior Software Engineer based in Phoenix, AZ, focused on LLM and AI system design with 8+ years of experience building production-grade intelligent applications. I specialize in RAG architectures, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM evaluation/guardrails, with a track record deploying AI copilots and decision systems at scale for hundreds of thousands of users. I blend deep technical execution with product thinking to deliver low-latency, reliable AI systems in real-world environments. My background spans Python, FastAPI, and distributed systems, with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I design and implement end-to-end ML/NLP pipelines, guardrails, monitoring, and governance to keep AI features safe and scalable in production.

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I’m Joshua Sommers, a Senior Software Engineer based in Phoenix, AZ, focused on LLM and AI system design with 8+ years of experience building production-grade intelligent applications. I specialize in RAG architectures, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM evaluation/guardrails, with a track record deploying AI copilots and decision systems at scale for hundreds of thousands of users.
I blend deep technical execution with product thinking to deliver low-latency, reliable AI systems in real-world environments. My background spans Python, FastAPI, and distributed systems, with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I design and implement end-to-end ML/NLP pipelines, guardrails, monitoring, and governance to keep AI features safe and scalable in production.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Fundrise
November 1, 2022 - Present
Led LLM-powered investor copilots and AI-driven decisioning at scale, architecting multi-agent orchestration (Python, FastAPI, LangChain/LangGraph) and guardrails to power thousands of active investors; delivered production-grade RAG pipeline with embeddings, document indexing, retrieval, and compliance checks; optimized latency with caching, compression, and monitoring; defined internal evaluation framework to accelerate iteration and reliability.
Senior Software Engineer at Scratchpad
August 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022
Led development of a Sales Intelligence & Next-Best-Action platform using ML/NLP to score accounts, prioritize tasks, and drive thousands of rep activities; built end-to-end ML pipelines (Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch); developed Transformer/BERT encoders and sentence embeddings for sentiment, intent, and follow-up need classification; deployed low-latency inference services and integrated with UI.
Full Stack Engineer at Solugenix
July 1, 2020 - March 1, 2021
Built an AI-powered ticket triage SLA-risk dashboard; Python (FastAPI) with gRPC and Redis as a feature store; hosted on Snowflake/PostgreSQL; handled 100–300 decisions/sec; created internal model repo and dashboards, enabling rapid decision making and automation.
Software Engineer at USAA
October 1, 2019 - July 1, 2020
Developed an Intelligent Document Processing platform for insurance and banking; used Python, spaCy, scikit-learn, and transformers to classify documents; built OCR + text-cleanup pipelines on AWS; produced structured features and REST endpoints; enabled reliable, scalable document processing in production.
Senior Software Engineer at Cognizant
October 1, 2018 - October 1, 2019
Contributed to churn and up-sell models for an enterprise client; built data pipelines and ML solutions across AWS, GCP, and Spark; deployed models via REST endpoints; supported campaign planning and evaluation for large-scale deployments.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at NorthernArizona University
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2017

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services