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Nick Sousa
From United States
08:07 AM
(GMT-07:00)
$70/hr
or
$120,000/yr
Active over a week ago
AI/Software Engineer
AI-native engineer
Available for hire
Years of
experience
7+ years
Experience
level
Senior
Available
for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract
AI Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in large-scale microservices, AI/ML applications, and cloud-native solutions. Experienced in designing and deploying LLM-powered platforms, NLP chatbots, and real-time data pipelines using AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, and modern frameworks like Spring Boot, Angular, and Node.js. Skilled in building scalable systems for Healthcare, SaaS, finance, and autonomous vehicle sectors, with expertise in Python, Java, TypeScript, and AI tools like TensorFlow, LangChain, and OpenAI APIs. Adept at integrating third-party services, optimizing workflows, and implementing secure, high-performance architectures for enterprise applications.
Skills
Languages
Employment History
Senior Software Engineer at
Moody's Analytics
Current
2022
-
Now
Developed and scaled an AI-driven career platform to 300K+ monthly users by building microservices and APIs using Node.js, Python, and Java. Specialized in LLM-based applications using OpenAI, LangChain, and Hugging Face, including AI agents, resume optimization, and interview simulation tools. Built data pipelines, web scrapers, and ML models (TensorFlow) for analytics and career predictions, while also working on blockchain indexing systems and NL2SQL solutions. Combined strong backend engineering with product design, analytics, and real-time infrastructure to deliver scalable, intelligent systems.
Software Developer at
Ricardo plc
2020
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2022
Built scalable AI and data-driven systems for investment insights and autonomous vehicle platforms, including generating financial recommendations and AI-powered reports using advanced prompt engineering and embeddings. Developed high-throughput microservices and data pipelines (Python, Java, FastAPI) deployed on AWS and Kubernetes, supporting large-scale concurrent workloads. Contributed to real-time analytics and monitoring (Grafana, Redshift) and enhanced user-facing dashboards with React, combining backend scalability with practical ML applications.
Software Developer at
Magic Leap
2020
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2020
Developed secure, scalable microservices using Spring Boot and AWS, with a strong focus on mitigating OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and building production-ready systems. Built AI-powered and automation-driven applications, including a Slack chatbot for travel bookings and an automated payment system, while integrating third-party APIs like Stripe, Uber, and Amadeus. Designed serverless and event-driven architectures with messaging queues, and delivered user-facing dashboards using Angular to support real-time operations and service management.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at
Santa Clara University
2014
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2018