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Reid Long

Los Angeles

Summary

Innovative Full-Stack AI Engineer with 10 years of experience in designing and building scalable web and mobile applications. Specializes in TypeScript and Python ecosystems, serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB), and AI solutions using Large Language Models. Expertise in developing end-to-end systems with React, Node.js, FastAPI, and GraphQL, focusing on performance and AI-driven user experiences while delivering secure, reliable software.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior AI Engineer

Unwrap.ai
Santa Barbara
05.2023 - Current

· Designed and developed AI-powered customer intelligence features across a platform supporting 70+ enterprise data integrations including Zendesk, Intercom, Qualtrics, Salesforce, Snowflake, S3, and custom APIs.

· Built scalable Python ingestion services that normalized millions of customer feedback records into a unified data model while supporting incremental synchronization, deduplication, and PII redaction.

· Developed backend services with FastAPI and GraphQL powering customer analytics, semantic search, reporting dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows.

· Built production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using Pinecone vector search and hybrid retrieval to provide evidence-backed responses from customer feedback.

· Designed and implemented multi-step AI agent workflows using LangGraph and LangChain with tool calling, planning, memory management, and structured output generation.

· Integrated OpenAI GPT-4 and Anthropic Claude models for conversational analytics, automated customer insight generation, and product feedback summarization.

· Built streaming AI experiences enabling real-time responses through React and TypeScript while supporting conversation persistence and dynamic visualization components.

· Developed AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch pipelines orchestrating large-scale NLP processing including sentiment analysis, clustering, topic extraction, taxonomy generation, and semantic indexing.

· Improved AI quality by implementing automated evaluation pipelines, prompt optimization, hallucination reduction strategies, and model routing based on workload characteristics.

· Mentored engineers on production AI architecture, scalable backend development, and LLM engineering best practices.

Software Engineer

Abridge
Pittsburgh
02.2019 - 09.2022

· Developed backend services supporting clinical conversation processing and AI-powered documentation generation for healthcare providers.

· Built secure REST APIs enabling physician workflows, medical transcript processing, and structured clinical note generation.

· Collaborated closely with applied machine learning engineers to productionize speech recognition and NLP models into scalable cloud services.

· Designed distributed processing pipelines handling large volumes of medical conversations while maintaining HIPAA-compliant data handling practices.

· Improved application performance through Redis caching, asynchronous task processing, database optimization, and event-driven architecture using Kafka.

· Built React-based clinician interfaces supporting transcript review, AI-generated documentation, and workflow automation.

· Containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes while improving deployment reliability through CI/CD automation on AWS.

· Worked cross-functionally with clinical specialists, product managers, and ML researchers to improve documentation accuracy and physician productivity.

· Promoted to Senior Software Engineer after consistently delivering high-impact platform improvements and mentoring junior engineers.

Software Engineering Intern

Google
Pittsburg
10.2018 - 01.2019

· Developed backend functionality for large-scale distributed services within Google's internal engineering infrastructure.

· Built automation tools that improved developer workflows and reduced manual testing effort.

· Optimized backend components through profiling, performance tuning, and comprehensive unit testing.

· Collaborated with senior engineers in a large-scale monorepo environment following Google's engineering standards, design reviews, and code review practices.

· Presented project results and technical recommendations to engineering leadership upon internship completion.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
05-2018

Skills

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Go, Java

AI & Machine Learning: OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude, LangChain, LangGraph, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Agents, Prompt Engineering, Tool Calling, Vector Search, Sentence Transformers, Embeddings, Semantic Search, NLP, BERT, PyTorch

Backend: FastAPI, Flask, Nodejs, Expressjs, GraphQL, REST APIs, Microservices, Kafka, Redis, Celery

Frontend: React, Nextjs, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, Material UI

Databases: PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, Pinecone

Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Lambda, ECS Fargate, Step Functions, Batch, S3, CloudWatch, IAM), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD

Timeline

Senior AI Engineer

Unwrap.ai
05.2023 - Current

Software Engineer

Abridge
02.2019 - 09.2022

Software Engineering Intern

Google
10.2018 - 01.2019

Master of Science - Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University
Reid Long