Edward Barlow - AI Adoption Consultant
Active AI Engineer/Devloper 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 AI Engineer & Agentic Platform Builder. Multi-agent pipelines with RAG, tools, orchestration, and MCP. My harness optimizes for context and accuracy with feedback and guardrails. Delivered enterprise AI document automation for a $87B private credit firm. Actively building a Framework to share software project capabilities in a single pane of glass devops. Published Specification driven design framework.
Technical Leader with 30+ years of hands-on leadership driving delivery of high-performance solutions, critical infrastructure, and managing enterprise data for leading financial companies and insurance companies. Startup experience. Full Stack Engineering Leader with deep technical expertise across the engineering stack.
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.
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: Backend Platform Development • Database and Data Architecture • Microservices & APIs • Data Quality • Security • CI/CD/DevOps • Analytics/KPIs/Reporting • Documentation • Evals
Data & Scale: ETL/ELT Data at Size & Speed • Streaming • Data Warehousing • Internet Of Things
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 Pipelines, Vector Search, ChromaDB, Sentence Transformers, UV/ruff, Agent Specification By Role, LLM Orchestration, AWS/Bedrock, Guardrails, Evals, Best Practices
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WEB CLOUD STUDIO
Principal/Founder | 11/2025-Present
- Designed and built the GAME Framework — agentic SDLC platform providing namespaced project visibility, shared capability catalog (REST/CLI/MCP), reproducible builds, and single-pane-of-glass DevOps for distributed teams
- Developed full RAG pipeline (ChromaDB, sentence-transformers) for document retrieval and LLM grounding
- Multi-agent orchestration layer with tool calling, agent/skill registry, guardrails, and observability telemetry
- Full-SDLC specification-driven “reproducible-build” workflow from specifications with enforced code review and documentation standards
- Technologies: Python, Anthropic Claude API, LangChain, RAG, ChromaDB, Django/Flask, UV/ruff, Pydantic, Anthropic/OpenAI SDK, MCP, AWS/Bedrock
FUTURE STANDARD INVESTMENTS
VP - Lead Engineer | 09/2024 - 11/2025
- Led core 2025 AI document management initiative for $87B 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, Azure, Dealcloud
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
Principal: GAME Framework (2025–Present) — Agentic SDLC platform merging process-based methodology with LLM-driven development; provides shared capability catalog (REST/CLI/MCP), reproducible builds, and single-pane-of-glass DevOps for distributed teams. See edbarlow.net.
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++)