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Applied AI & Automation

Production RAG Validation Suite

A published evaluation method for testing retrieval quality, groundedness, and failure boundaries before a knowledge assistant is released.

Hybrid retrievalCross-encoder rerankingGroundedness evaluation

Workflow automationInterface concept

Concept interface · illustrative flow

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Automated Incident Dispatcher

A concept interface for webhook intake, signature checks, and routing an incident to an on-call owner.

Interface designWebhook flowRouting contracts

Data engineering & BIIndependent portfolio project

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Source figurePython analysis artifact

Python chart of daily bike ride counts, with date on the horizontal axis and ride count on the vertical axis.

Daily ride counts · Python analysis artifact. The chart’s source run is separate from the BI demonstration export.

Data Analytics & BI

Cyclistic Ridership Analysis

Python analysis artifacts, a dimensional BI model, and a financial scenario explorer.

Python / PandasPower BI / DAXStar Schema

Systems & cloudInteractive system prototype

Illustrative system map

Systems & Software

Cloud Architecture Visualizer

An interactive system map for following data through a knowledge assistant, API synchronization, and a BI pipeline.

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Illustrative decision framework

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Workflow Automation Feasibility Model

A decision framework for choosing between deterministic scripts, queued webhooks, AI assistance, and human review.

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Published engineering methodApplied AI evaluation

Production RAG Validation Suite

A published evaluation method for testing retrieval quality, groundedness, and failure boundaries before a knowledge assistant is released.

Hybrid retrieval
Cross-encoder reranking
Groundedness evaluation

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Question, contribution & scope

The question: A convincing demo answer does not establish retrieval quality or reliable handling of unsupported questions.
The approach: Evaluate chunking, hybrid retrieval, reranking, citations, and refusals against a representative question set.

A technical guide with a readiness checklist and a retrieval trade-off table.

Scope: A written methodology, not an implemented benchmark product or a published scored evaluation run.

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Architecture workflow reference

Explanatory prototype. These workflows describe contracts and failure paths; they do not run production infrastructure.

Grounded Knowledge Assistant

Ground language models in authoritative corporate documents, enforce citation boundaries, and maintain a deterministic human escalation path for low-confidence inference.

Document Intake

Parse heterogeneous enterprise documents, extract high-fidelity text and tabular structures, and strip non-authoritative boilerplate before indexing.

Contract: Cryptographic SHA-256 hash verified; metadata normalized before parsing.
Failure mitigation: Corrupt or encrypted payloads quarantined to Dead-Letter Queue.
Output artifact: Sanitized markdown AST with tabular preservation

Semantic Chunking

Structure unstructured prose into hierarchical parent-child passage chunks, enabling exact keyword retrieval alongside dense semantic vector similarity.

Contract: Strict 512-token semantic boundaries with 10% sliding overlap.
Failure mitigation: Oversized tables decomposed into relational dimension facts.
Output artifact: Dual index: Dense embeddings + BM25 lexical inverted index

Guardrailed Retrieval

Query-time hybrid retrieval merges vector proximity with lexical matching, followed by a cross-encoder model that scores passage relevancy before prompt injection.

Contract: Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) merges top-40 dense and sparse candidates.
Failure mitigation: Low lexical overlap triggers query expansion fallback.
Output artifact: Top-5 reranked context passages with similarity scores

Grounded Handover

Present a draft with source references, explicit limitations and a review path for unsupported or ambiguous requests.

Contract: Every declarative sentence carries an interactive source page anchor.
Failure mitigation: Out-of-domain queries trigger graceful fallback disclosure.
Output artifact: Streaming SSE response with verifiable citations & audit log

Resilient Event Broker

Connect mission-critical external APIs and internal microservices under real network conditions, handling network partitions, duplicate webhooks, and schema drift safely.

Inbound Webhook

Receive partner webhook events at edge endpoints with cryptographic authenticity checks, validating timestamp freshness to prevent replay attacks.

Contract: HMAC SHA-256 cryptographic signature verified before body parsing.
Failure mitigation: Invalid signatures are rejected before the event enters the processing queue.
Output artifact: Authenticated raw event payload with ingress timestamp

Asynchronous Queue

Decouple reception from processing, with idempotency checks and reconciliation to reduce the risk of duplicate downstream effects.

Contract: UUIDv5 idempotency key cached in distributed key-value store for 72h.
Failure mitigation: Duplicate event IDs acknowledged immediately with HTTP 200 without reprocessing.
Output artifact: Deduplicated FIFO queue message buffer

Transform & Validate

Transform external partner schemas into your internal canonical representation, isolating vendor-specific formatting changes from your core business logic.

Contract: Zod runtime schema validation against canonical enterprise entity model.
Failure mitigation: Schema drift anomalies routed to schema-mismatch quarantine topic.
Output artifact: Normalized domain event with strongly typed relations

Downstream Dispatch

Write transformed entities to target databases and third-party APIs with atomic transaction boundaries and automated daily reconciliation auditing.

Contract: Bounded exponential backoff with decorrelated jitter (max 5 retries).
Failure mitigation: Unrecoverable downstream timeouts trigger circuit breaker.
Output artifact: Transactional write confirmation & reconciliation receipt

BI & Scenario Engine

Transform disparate operational logs into an unambiguous Star Schema data model with auditable DAX measures and dynamic what-if simulation parameters.

Extract & Profile

Profile operational tables before transformation, detecting upstream database migrations, missing foreign keys, or unexpected datatype alterations early.

Contract: Null checks, distribution skew, and referential integrity profiled on ingest.
Failure mitigation: Malformed records flagged and written to profiling exception log.
Output artifact: Staged raw tables with verified row counts and column profiles

Star Schema Modeling

Build normalized dimension tables and narrow fact tables with integer surrogate keys, ensuring lightning-fast columnar compression and aggregation.

Contract: Strict 1-to-many single-direction relationships between dimensions and facts.
Failure mitigation: Many-to-many bridge tables prohibited to guarantee predictable filter propagation.
Output artifact: Optimized Parquet analytical warehouse tables

Measure Definition

Implement explicit DAX measures with strict filter context boundaries, eliminating conflicting metric definitions across departments.

Contract: All business KPIs defined once as explicit measures; zero implicit columns.
Failure mitigation: Calculations validated against raw ledger aggregates with automated unit tests.
Output artifact: Version-controlled tabular semantic model with calculation logic

Decision Surface

Deliver an executive decision surface where operators can toggle pricing, conversion, and capacity assumptions in real time to forecast operational impact.

Contract: Disconnected parameter tables simulate dynamic revenue & volume sensitivities.
Failure mitigation: Boundary inputs clamped to mathematically valid business domains.
Output artifact: Interactive decision dashboard with dynamic scenario simulator

Ground language models in authoritative corporate documents, enforce citation boundaries, and maintain a deterministic human escalation path for low-confidence inference.

Illustrative design / no live system connection

Human Review Escalation

Passages with cross-encoder rerank confidence < 0.78 route to human triage with exact retrieved document context.

Contract invariant

Cryptographic SHA-256 hash verified; metadata normalized before parsing.

Failure mitigation

Corrupt or encrypted payloads quarantined to Dead-Letter Queue.

Output artifact

Sanitized markdown AST with tabular preservation

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Workflow Automation Feasibility Model

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Cyclistic Ridership Analysis

Cloud Architecture Visualizer

Automated Incident Dispatcher

Production RAG Validation Suite

A plan for evaluating
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Workflow Automation Feasibility Model

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Executive BI & Star Schema Blueprint

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Explicit definitions.

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Document Intake

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