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Francisco
de Guzman

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Principal AI Full-Stack Developer · UCLA Cognitive Science · GauntletAI Cohort 3 Champion

Francisco de Guzman
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experience

Jan 2026 — Jul 2026
BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
Principal AI Full-Stack Developer
  • Architected CX-Brain (ARIA) — an internal AI marketing-intelligence platform with multi-agent orchestration via AWS Bedrock SUPERVISOR_ROUTER
  • Led migration to Agentic RAG and AWS Bedrock AgentCore; ran a security audit and hardened the application based on findings
  • Ran company lunch-and-learns on AI development patterns and context engineering
Next.jsNestJSAWS BedrockCDKRedshift
Oct 2025 — Dec 2025
GauntletAI
AI Context Engineer — Cohort 3 Champion
  • Named Cohort 3 Champion; shipped 17 deployed, demoable AI apps in 10 weeks at 100+ hrs/week
  • Developed ElevareAI (adaptive tutoring), MathPhoenix (Socratic AI tutor), and a VS Code extension
  • Shipped async job and webhook architecture to absorb model latency, plus Elo-based difficulty scoring
FastAPIReactPostgreSQLOpenRouterEvals
Aug 2023 — Nov 2025
UCLA IT Services
Application Programmer III
  • Delivered a 1000x navigation performance boost: 40 s → 40 ms response time
  • Led development of a secure self-service portal for user/role management and student database admin
  • Co-developed AI-powered Wildfire App and CustomGPT for student academic planning
AngularAWSSymfony PHPAI/LLM
Oct 2024 — Oct 2025
Freelance
Technical Consultant — Real Estate Platform
  • Full-stack development for a disruptive real-estate platform across Angular, C#, and AWS
AngularC# .NETAWS
Oct 2021 — Apr 2023
LivePerson Inc.
Software Engineer II
  • VueJS multi-service feature development; managed team connections with Medallia and Salesforce
  • Led GitHub → GitLab migration with full CI/CD pipeline updates
Vue.jsGitLabCI/CDSalesforce
May 2015 — Sep 2021
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Software Dev Engineer II
  • Full-stack Angular/TypeScript + C# .NET Core REST API on the Unity Next product line
  • Mentored 3 interns through to full-time hire; performance tested with BlazeMeter, JMeter, and CloudWatch
AngularTypeScriptC# .NET CoreOKTAJMeter
2006 — 2015
Symantec / Rapid7 / imATHLETE / CyberCoders
QA & Software Engineer Roles
  • Progressive engineering roles spanning QA management, software analysis, and load testing
  • Led a 4-person QA team at imATHLETE; senior software analyst at Symantec for 6 years
QALoad TestingAmazon EC2Google App Scripts
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selected work

01
Clarif-Eye — LangGraph Accessibility Demo

A working accessibility tool that doubles as a LangGraph capability tour: photograph a document, label, or bill and get a verified audio description back. Built for visually impaired users. The README is upfront that this is a portfolio demo. - Multi-agent pipeline: vision-language extraction, a complexity router (fast path vs. deep analysis subgraph), web-search enrichment, and text-to-speech. - The safety core: a human-in-the-loop interrupt blocks any number the draft cannot trace back to the photographed text. The app asks before it speaks. - Exercises the LangGraph primitive set: StateGraph conditional edges, Command(goto) routing, subgraphs with independent schemas, Send fan-out for multi-photo, checkpointing (InMemorySaver by default: deliberately non-persistent, because the images are medication labels and bills), cross-thread Store, time-travel via get_state_history, streaming. - CI on GitHub Actions, including a test that imports every capability the README claims so the docs cannot drift from the code.

PythonLangGraphGradioOpenRouterAccessibilityHITL
02
AgentForge Mark 1 Local LLM Secure Clinical Copilot

OpenEMR is the host, not the product. We forked a mature EMR on purpose and built a distinct thing inside it — a privacy-preserving, self-verifying clinical AI assistant. You see OpenEMR because a clinical assistant belongs where the clinician already works, so we embedded it as an OpenEMR module rather than building a separate app. Ours consists of three key elements that don't exist in OpenEMR: - The module: The Co-Pilot button in the patient heading, the chat panel, and the verification display (including the ✓ Verified badge, citation cards, allergy/interaction warnings, and user feedback). - The Python agent: A completely separate service that is the actual product. - The eval suite: A custom harness measuring small model behavior. Two key architectural pillars: 1. Local-only, zero egress: The model (Qwen3-4B via Ollama) runs locally. No patient data (PHI) ever leaves the machine; the agent sits on a no-egress Docker network. 2. Deterministic verification layer: Every claim the model makes is deterministically re-checked against the actual EMR record, cited to its source, and unverified details are stripped. Safety checks (allergy/drug-interactions) run deterministically.

PythonOllama (Qwen)DockerOpenEMREvals
03
AgentForge Mark 2 — Multimodal Evidence Agent

Phase 2 of the AgentForge series. The clinical co-pilot learns to read documents: uploaded PDFs and intake forms are ingested and retrieved alongside the structured EMR record, so an answer can cite a scanned referral letter as readily as a lab value. - Hybrid retrieval: BM25 keyword search fused with dense vector retrieval, then a local reranker orders the candidates. - Still local-only: inference moved to llama.cpp/llama-server running Qwen3-8B-Q5_K_M — no cloud model calls, no PHI egress. - Every answer stays citation-grounded and passes the same deterministic verification gate as Mark 1. - A 50-case golden-set eval suite wired as a PR-blocking CI gate.

PythonFastAPIllama.cppHybrid RAGRerankingEvals
04
AgentForge Mark 3 — Adversarial Red-Team Platform

Phase 3 attacks Phase 2. Building an agent is one problem; knowing where it breaks is a different one, so this is a harness that tries to break the clinical co-pilot on purpose and turns whatever it finds into permanent tests. - A red-team agent generates adversarial prompts against the target system, running an uncensored local model so the attacks aren't declined by the attacker itself. - An independent judge scores each attempt from a separate trust domain — the attacker cannot grade its own work. - Confirmed exploits become structured vulnerability reports, then deterministic regression tests that run in CI, so a fixed failure cannot silently return. - Threat model mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10. 314 tests, CI green.

PythonRed TeamingOWASP LLM Top 10OllamaRegression Evals
05
LexForge

An AI-assisted demand-letter drafting platform for law firms. Attorneys draft in a rich editor while the AI proposes arguments and clause language, with the citation and formatting rules the work product actually has to satisfy. - Reusable clause library and Bluebook citation formatting. - Real-time multi-user collaboration: live cursors and presence sync over WebSockets. - Audit logging for compliance review of who changed what. - 541 frontend tests plus a server suite, all CI-gated; API keys never reach the browser — model calls go through a rate-limited backend with a pinned model allowlist.

React 19TypeScriptNode/ExpressPostgreSQLSocket.IOTiptap
06
Daedalus Echo

Daedalus Echo turns your voice into structured knowledge — entirely on your phone. No cloud. No accounts. No data ever leaves your device. Speak your thoughts, and Echo does the rest: accurate transcription, AI summaries, automatic to-do lists, and a searchable knowledge graph of everything you've said — all processed locally by on-device AI. What it does: - Record voice notes with built-in mic or Bluetooth headset, or import audio files - Transcribe audio to text using Whisper — fully offline - Generate AI summaries, titles, key topics, and mind maps with Gemma - Extract action items automatically into an editable to-do list - Filter task history (last day, 3 days, a week, or everything) - Semantic Q&A across your note library and global knowledge graph connections - Automatic versioned backups to local folders with auto-cleanup of old backups

Kotlin/ComposeMediaPipeWhisper STTRoom DBGemmaSemantic Search
07
Math Phoenix

Math Phoenix is a K-12 Socratic math tutor — a web app where students submit a math problem (typed or photographed) and work through it in a guided chat. The AI tutor never gives the answer; it asks one guiding question at a time, offers hints after two stuck turns, detects when the student reaches the solution, and follows up with a short quiz to confirm understanding. A password-protected teacher dashboard shows session transcripts, per-problem stats, and aggregate progress. Architecture: - Stack: React/Vite static frontend + Node/Express (ESM) backend, deployed on Render. - AI layer: OpenRouter free tier wrapper with fallback models on 429s/5xx and empty completions. - Storage: Deliberately ephemeral, in-memory Map (memoryStore.js) for zero infrastructure cost. Testing & Evals: - Unit tests: 181 tests using Node's built-in node:test. - Evals: Custom ~500-line harness measuring classifier accuracy (T1), tutor quality via LLM-as-judge (T2), and E2E scripted student simulators (T3).

ReactNode.jsExpressOpenRouternode:testEvals
08
ElevareAI

An AI-driven learning solution that allows anyone to set goals to learn anything, through the power of AI teaching. The application allows for people to set a target goal for a target domain of learning. You do a few questions every day, you're invited to go into a deep dive conversation with your A.I. tutor, and if need be, you can engage with a human tutor. It's an application that allows people the freedom to keep learning, at their own pace.

FastAPIReactPostgreSQLRenderOpenRouter
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tech stack

Front End
ReactNext.jsAngularVue.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptReduxNgRxCSS / SCSS
Back End
C# / .NET CoreNode.js / ExpressFastAPI (Python)PHP / SymfonyREST APIsGraphQLSQL / NoSQLMicroservicesWebSockets
AI / LLM
AWS BedrockClaude Sonnet 4.6Agentic RAGContext EngineeringOpenAI APIWhisper STTGemma 3OllamaQwen
Cloud / Infra
AWS (Bedrock, ECS Fargate, Cognito, S3, CDK)AzureDockerCI/CD (GitLab, GitHub Actions)Infrastructure as CodeSSO / OAuth / OktaPostgreSQLDynamoDBRedshiftCloudFront / CDN
Mobile
Android SDKKotlin / Jetpack ComposeIonicMediaPipeBLE / GATTRoom DB / SQLite
Testing & Observability
Unit Testing (Jest, node:test)JMeterBlazeMeterCloudWatchWinDBG
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credentials

2025
GauntletAI — Cohort 3 Champion
17 production AI apps in 10 weeks · 100+ hrs/week
2023
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Coursera · Verified credential
2009
Microsoft Certified Professional
Credential ID: 6690969
2006
University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. Cognitive Science — Specialization in Learning, Computing & AI
in progress
AWS Solutions Architect
Associate certification