Edward Barlow - AI Adoption Consultant
Active AI Engineer/Developer with solid understanding of latest trends and development best practices.
West Chester, PA | (914) 837-4798 edward.m.barlow@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/ed-barlow
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Engineering Leader. Thirty years building and running mission-critical data platforms at major financial services companies. Designed, built, and managed core systems at multiple top-10-volume equity street firms. IoT/Real Time. Startup leadership.
Principal AI Engineer My Drydock is a Specification Driven Development Framework that has built a ~200K token specification reliably using sonnet. Marina is a trust and interoperability platform providing a single pane of glass devops. Delivered enterprise AI document automation for large private credit firm.
Individual Contributor. Multiple open-source packages. Author. Conference Speaker. Expert developer, data engineer, and DevOps engineer with firm understanding of best practices and delivery. Platform modernization.
Leadership approach: Active listener and communicator who translates business concepts into actionable technical plans for execution of stakeholder vision in a quality-focused collaborative culture. Detail oriented. Technical Product Owner Role at Cigna.
CORE COMPETENCIES
AI-Powered Developer Platforms: Best Practices • Specification Driven Design • Agent-based SDLC Automation • Code Traceability • Guardrails • KPIs/Metrics • Observability
Leadership & Delivery: Communication • Team Leadership • Agile/SAFe • Platform Modernization • Process & Governance • Roadmaps • Documentation
Technical Expertise: Streaming/Real Time/IoT • Database and Data Architecture • Microservices & APIs • Data Quality • Security • CI/CD/DevOps • Analytics/KPIs/Reporting • Documentation • Architecture • ETL/ELT Data at Size & Speed • Data Warehousing
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript/Angular/Typescript/Node, SQL, Bash, C/C++, Perl
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Snowflake, Aurora, VoltDB
NoSQL: DynamoDB, Elasticsearch/ELK, Redshift, Delta Lake, Databricks, MongoDB
DevOps: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes/Openshift, Jenkins, Ansible, Airflow, Linux, Windows Server, AWS
Data & Streaming: Kafka, ELT/ETL Pipelines, DBT, Delta Lake
AI: Pydantic ADK, Anthropic/OpenAI SDK & CLI, MCP, LangChain, RAG, Vector Search, UV/ruff, AWS/Bedrock
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WEB CLOUD STUDIO
Principal/Founder | 11/2025-Present
- Author: The Marina — Safety and Collaboration platform - Shared Capabilities Catalog - Single-pane-of-glass DevOps.
- Author: The Drydock — Full SDLC Specification Driven Development platform - Superset of SpecKit. Reproducible Builds. Agile Process. Typed Specifications. V1 can build a ~100K token application with a ~100K token opinionated infrastructure using sonnet. Integrated Agile Based Web Console.
- RAG pipeline (ChromaDB, sentence-transformers) for document retrieval
- Technologies: Python, Codex, Claude, RAG, Django/Flask, UV/ruff, MCP, AWS/Bedrock
FUTURE STANDARD INVESTMENTS
VP - Lead Engineer | 09/2024 - 11/2025
- Led core 2025 AI document management initiative for a major institutional private credit firm — automated document ingestion, routing, and processing pipelines from GPs into internal systems
- Responsible for Core Dealcloud Workflow System supporting deal execution and portfolio monitoring operations
- Technologies: Python, Canoe, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Azure, Dealcloud, Databricks
EVERNORTH HEALTH SERVICES LLC (CIGNA)
Software Engineering Senior Advisor | 05/2020 - 09/2024
- Led team of engineers building modern AWS-based enterprise reporting platform serving sales/marketing
- Owned Developer Experience: Documentation, Git flow, UAT, Release/Support processes, enterprise cloud security, E2E testing framework (Cypress), and usage monitoring (Divolte)
- Crafted data pipelines from Hadoop/Teradata to Redshift/Snowflake supporting growth and engagement initiatives
- Served as Product Owner managing planning/strategy, stakeholder relationships, and business alignment across engineering and analytics teams
- Technologies: AWS, Python, Terraform, Aurora/PostgreSQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, Angular, SAS, Snowflake Delta Lake, Teradata Vantage, Databricks
POINT 72 ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC
Platform Engineering Consultant | 05/2018 - 04/2020
- Led platform modernization initiative migrating Hadoop to OpenShift (Kubernetes) and Elasticsearch
- Served as Senior Kafka expert for the team on high volume streaming data platform
- Reduced AWS costs by 20% through dynamic infrastructure scaling
- Technologies: AWS, OpenShift, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Airflow, Kafka, CI/CD infra/tooling
WALKER DIGITAL TABLE SYSTEMS LLC
Director of Database, Architecture, and Business Intelligence | 07/2013 - 05/2018
- Direct CIO report managing technology and roadmap for all non-front end initiatives
- Led 2 scrum teams (infrastructure and reporting) for casino floor management startup
- Designed/Tuned Java API and REST microservice architecture for high-performance streaming Internet of Things platform
- Developed Kafka-streamed reporting data warehouse plus 200+ operational reports enabling product and business teams
- Established monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices for business-critical systems
- Technologies: Kafka, Python, PostgreSQL, Java, Jenkins, Docker/Kubernetes, Tableau, Elasticsearch (ELK), Jasper Reports, Crystal Reports, Bash, Angular
MILLENNIUM PARTNERS LLC
Director of Internal Tools and Architecture | 07/2011 - 12/2012
- Leader responsible for modernizing IT process and tooling across the organization
- Deployed and setup incident management system (Remedy) and Support Portal
- Delivered change management processes and procedures
- Built 15,000 CI configuration management database (CMDB)
- Implemented purchasing and deployment processes
MILLENNIUM PARTNERS LLC
Director of Database and Compliance Infrastructure | 03/2003 - 07/2011
- Direct CTO report at high-volume quantitative hedge fund
- Managed 175 production database systems (Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
- Led 24x6 worldwide team of 6-8 administrators and developers
- Developed Best-Of-Breed Database Portal for DevOps/Support and core Managing Enterprise Flows
- Developed in-house compliance systems for entitlement review, certifications, personal trading, and restricted list
- Implemented disaster recovery and business continuity for critical trading systems
- Responsible for backend data and database operations supporting trading platforms
SQL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Principal | 09/1994 - 03/2003
- Full Stack Independent contractor providing database and development services
- Clients Included:
- Time Warner: Saved $100 million magazine process rewrite with a 9 month contract optimization and tuning
- JP Morgan: Built Morgan Cage. Built Enterprise Security Master. Managed 20 Sybase contractors for a large corporate transformation
- Bankers Trust: Enterprise risk management system (RAROC)
- Weiss, Peck & Greer: Core C libraries for top-ten-volume trade processing infrastructure
- Sanford Bernstein: Primary order routing system for top-ten-volume trading desk
- Technologies: Sybase, Sybase/IQ, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, C/C++, Bash, PowerBuilder, Perl/CGI, Erwin
EDUCATION
Cornell University
Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- ITIL Foundation Certification
PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS
Author: Marina Framework (2025–Present) — Agentic SDLC safety and collaboration platform forLLM developmer; provides sharing and a single-pane-of-glass DevOps across multiple projects.
Author: Process-Based Database Administration (2017) - Best practices for scaling IT platforms, governance, and operational excellence
Principal: GEM - Generic Enterprise Manager (2005-2012) - Full-featured enterprise operations portal for Win32/Linux hosts and databases with log monitoring, alerting, and auditing. This tooling enabled single pane of glass for Devops and Support on Ultra High Volume hedge Fund
Principal: Open Source — Sybase & SQL Server utilities and backup scripts (widely adopted open source)
Principal: Open Source — Conquer - A fantasy C/C++ multiplayer game like Civilization (~100,000 lines of C/C++)