Lead architecture and delivery of AI-powered commerce workflows. Build multi-step agent systems with controlled retrieval, tool execution, validation, retries, and human review. Developed an AI Content Agent that reduced a workflow from roughly 35 minutes to well under one minute.
I amQuinton Hedrick.
14+ years building AI/ML platforms, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, healthcare software, commerce products, and fintech systems—plus 5 years of Solutions Engineering experience translating complex systems into clear business outcomes.
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Engineering depth.
Business clarity.
I work at the intersection of software engineering, AI systems, and product delivery.
My experience covers architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production improvement across several industries. I focus on systems that are maintainable, measurable, and understandable—not only impressive in a demo.
I also translate architecture, platform capabilities, technical risks, and tradeoffs into executive-ready presentations and technical narratives for both engineering and non-technical audiences.
Production first
Observability, failure handling, testing, rollout, and rollback belong in the design.
Bounded AI
Retrieval, deterministic rules, validation, retries, and human review keep model behavior controlled.
Context-driven architecture
Choose the language, database, and infrastructure that fit the workload instead of forcing a favorite stack.
Five companies.
One engineering arc.
Built ML workflows, inference services, evaluation systems, continuous-learning capabilities, and MLOps foundations spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, governance, drift, explainability, fairness, and operational readiness.
Designed enterprise data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Built batch, streaming, lakehouse, and event-driven systems with Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Python, Go, and infrastructure automation.
Modernized healthcare backend systems, interoperability services, and clinical-document workflows using Java/Spring Boot, .NET, Python, React, HL7, FHIR, asynchronous processing, and ML-assisted classification.
Built payment-platform capabilities across merchant apps, APIs, transaction processing, webhooks, PayPal/Venmo integrations, tokenization, PCI-oriented security, retries, idempotency, settlement, and refunds.
Systems, not
just features.
Production AI Content Agent
A multi-step agent workflow combining catalog intelligence, retrieval, deterministic business rules, generative models, validation, retries, and human review.
Reduced a product-content workflow that previously required roughly 35 minutes to well under a minute.
Five technology domains
Commerce AI, enterprise machine learning, cloud/data platforms, healthcare interoperability, and payment infrastructure.
Broad stack.
Senior judgment.
Languages
AI & Machine Learning
Full Stack
Data & Platforms
Cloud & DevOps
Technical leadership
without the theater.
Architecture & code review
Review systems for correctness, maintainability, observability, security, failure handling, and unnecessary complexity.
Mentoring & delivery
Guide engineers through system design, debugging, production incidents, rollout strategy, technical risk, and release readiness.
Executive communication
Translate technical architecture and product tradeoffs into polished PowerPoint decks, diagrams, proposals, and decision-focused narratives.
Computer science
foundation.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GeorgiaMaster of Science in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Build something
worth shipping.
I’m interested in senior engineering work where AI, software architecture, distributed systems, and product execution meet.