Patrick McBride

Bill.com • Remote, CA

• •Design and operate agentic LLM and ML inference pipelines as async FastAPI services on AWS ECS Fargate
• •Build high-throughput AI backend services with per-request token budgeting, exponential-backoff retries, and dead-letter queues
• •Instrument production AI systems with structured JSON logging, correlation-ID tracing, and prompt-hash response caching for cost control
• •Integrate Amazon Bedrock and OpenAI models behind a unified, retry-safe client layer for multi-agent orchestration

ApplyPass • Remote, CA

• •Built the entire AI backend from scratch in Python/FastAPI — 800K requests and 3B tokens per month against the OpenAI API
• •Shipped a function-calling job classifier and a two-tower recommendation system, lifting job-match accuracy from 70% to 90%+
• •Cut LLM inference cost ~95% by migrating GPT-4 workloads to a fine-tuned GPT-3.5 with no measurable quality loss
• •Led the full migration of the AI backend from AWS ECS Fargate to DigitalOcean App Platform with Terraform IaC, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and a zero-downtime DNS cutover
• •Built an MCP server and Cowork agent-plugin suite (OAuth2 PKCE) for natural-language platform operations

Verizon • Remote, CA

• •Spearheaded an AI chatbot for contract analysis achieving 90% accuracy in deviation detection
• •Directed a Neo4j GraphRAG tool for legal contracts, reducing hallucinations in complex document analysis
• •Fine-tuned Llama/Mistral models for insurance language extraction — 90% accuracy, saving 5000+ hours/quarter
• •Created a GenAI competitive-intel chatbot with SQL queries to BigQuery — POC in 2 weeks, MVP in 1 month
• •Developed real-time speech-to-text with Whisper, reducing latency from 30s to 5s

KLA • Milpitas, CA

• •Developed a data storage API with PostgreSQL + MinIO — 4X write speed, 6X read speed improvement
• •Created a multi-container Docker Compose app for DL inference analyzing 10,000+ images per workload
• •Led an SRGAN+CNN image classification team, improving SEM review throughput by 4X

Stanford University

University of California, Santa Barbara