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Uza ir Ars lan

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I’m a Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience building scalable backend services, full-stack applications, enterprise platforms, and production AI solutions.

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I’m a Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience building scalable backend services, full-stack applications, enterprise platforms, and production AI solutions. My expertise includes Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

In my recent role at Elastic, I helped build an enterprise search and RAG platform covering 2.4 million documents, improving answer acceptance from 61% to 86%. I also developed AI-powered agentic workflows that automated 72% of routine case-preparation activities and contributed to quality improvements that reduced critical AI defects by 54%.

I enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, designing reliable architectures, improving system performance, and delivering products that create measurable business value.

  • 13 years' experience
  • Joined November 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Professional Services

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Work experience· 4 roles

Lead Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise Search & Generative AI · ElasticFeb 2023 – Aug 2026 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Owned enterprise search and applied generative AI delivery, building an access-aware RAG platform over 2.4M documents using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch hybrid retrieval, metadata filtering, reciprocal-rank fusion, semantic reranking, and grounded citations. Engineered governed LangGraph agentic workflows with 18 approved tools, explicit state, retries, resumability, permission controls, human approvals, and audited execution; integrated MCP-compatible services for controlled enterprise access and actions, automating 72% of routine case-preparation steps. Introduced AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases and managed foundation models alongside OpenAI/Anthropic via a centralized model gateway with fallback, rate limiting, semantic caching, and quality-latency-cost routing. Built a 1,500-case regression framework covering retrieval relevance, groundedness, citation accuracy, completeness, policy compliance, prompt injection, and tool execution—reducing critical production AI defects by 54%. Delivered

Senior AI Software Engineer · Baptist HealthApr 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Built secure knowledge search and document intelligence capabilities using Python with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and NLP services processing 12+ million pages across enterprise repositories. Developed access-aware retrieval and classification/summarization foundations to support regulated knowledge work, including expert validation and review workflows. Created secure React/Next.js experiences for search, annotation, feedback, and expert review, improving successful document discovery by 31%. Implemented OAuth/OIDC, IAM/RBAC, access filters, secrets management, audit logging, and private-network controls; containerized and instrumented services with distributed tracing to reduce diagnosis time by 43%. Introduced transformer-based classification and retrieval evaluation during the later phase to enable production generative AI delivery.

Python & Full-Stack Engineer · Astrica LLCJul 2015 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Delivered analytics and text-processing applications with Python REST services, React dashboards, and Node.js integrations for classification, search, extraction, and reporting workflows. Built near-real-time ingestion and indexing pipelines with SQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB and Elasticsearch-compatible services, including data-quality controls. Later automated API/UI/data-quality tests and moved toward containerized delivery to stabilize releases.

Software Engineer · Freedom MortgageAug 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Education

B.S. in Computer Science · DeVry University2012

Certifications and awards

AWS Certified Developer - Associate2030 – 2026
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer2030 – 2026

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