Speaking / A shared perspective

Ideas, in good company.

Conversations about practical AI, reliable data systems, and the engineering choices that connect them.

Conference appearances

On stage.

TechCon365 Atlanta

2025

Atlanta, Georgia

Empower Me: Building an AI Agent for Task Automation and Decision Support

An AI agent is most useful when it can help with a real task. This session explored task automation and decision support through the lens of building an agent.

Co-presented with Olesya Sarajlic at TechCon365 Atlanta. The linked public recap confirms the presentation; no recording is currently linked here.

From the work

Topics for a conversation.

Subject areas grounded in my engineering experience, for a talk, panel, or technical discussion.

01

AI agents with a practical purpose

Task automation, decision support, and connecting agents to the systems people actually use.

02

From enterprise data to useful AI

Grounding language models, using MCP, and building data foundations for intelligent applications.

03

The engineering behind reliable platforms

Distributed data systems, observability, data quality, and operating cloud infrastructure responsibly.

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