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Christopher O

@ragedsparrow

Software engineer: AI systems, MCPs, public safety software

United States
English
About me
I build AI systems that run in production, not demos that work once. Sixteen years in enterprise IT, security operations, and observability engineering. I have been a volunteer firefighter and EMR since 2019 and build software for emergency services, so I take reliability seriously. I work on retrieval systems, agent architectures, and MCP servers. I built a hybrid retrieval engine from scratch, with no hosted vector database. You get architecture you can read, tests that prove it works, and cost analysis before you commit to a model. I work async and am direct about scope.... Read more

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Bug Fixes
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AI Integrations
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Portfolio

Work experience

TransUnion

Advisor - Splunk/Cribl

TransUnion • Full-time

Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 • 1 yr

Acted as a technical advisor specializing in Splunk and Cribl platforms. Provided strategic guidance on data architecture, security monitoring, and operational efficiency using these specific data processing and analysis tools.

Allstate

Lead Security Operations Engineer

Allstate • Full-time

May 2017 - Oct 2021 • 4 yrs 5 mos

Led security operations engineering efforts in Charlotte, North Carolina. Focused on maintaining and optimizing security infrastructure, incident response capabilities, and monitoring systems to protect corporate assets and data.