Guy Richard - AI Engineer & Solutions Architect

About

I build the AI, and the system it runs on.

My path into AI ran through real software engineering. I started my journey building production applications in .NET, Ruby on Rails, and Node. From there I moved into architecting the cloud systems underneath them. That foundation is exactly what applied AI needs.

It's not just about prototyping models, it's about shipping them at scale. I build enterprise AI agents, retrieval pipelines, and fine-tuned models, all running today in production to be fast, affordable, and reliable.

Full-Stack Software Engineer

.NET, Ruby on Rails, React, SQL

Foundation

Cloud Solutions Architect

AWS, Azure, DevOps, CI/CD at scale

Scaled up

AI Engineer

Agents, RAG, fine-tuning, model orchestration

Now

What I do

Core expertise

Applied AI first, backed by the engineering foundation that gets it into production.

Frontier Model Orchestration

Evaluated and deployed dozens of top models through Azure AI Foundry and Amazon Bedrock, with routing, fallbacks, cost and latency tuning, and eval-driven model selection.

RAG & Retrieval Pipelines

Production retrieval-augmented generation: chunking, reranking, grounding, and citation so answers stay accurate, current, and trustworthy.

Fine-Tuning Small Language Models

Fine-tuned compact SLMs for domain tasks, distilling frontier quality into models that are cheaper, faster, and deployable close to the product.

Vector Search & Embeddings

Built the in-house vector database and semantic-search layer from scratch: embedding pipelines, ANN indexing, hybrid retrieval, and the refresh jobs that keep it accurate and fast at scale.

Cloud Solutions Architecture

I design the systems that carry the product on AWS and Azure. Scalable, cost-aware, secure, and observable, from the data layer to deployment.

Full-Stack Product Engineering

I own the whole product, not just the model behind it. Front ends in Vue, React, and TypeScript, backed by services in .NET, Ruby on Rails, and Node, plus the SQL and Mongo data layers that tie it all together.

Experience

Where I've built

Founding AI Engineer at Transfer Athletes

AI STARTUP, COLLEGE-SPORTS RECRUITING · MAR 2023 TO PRESENT

Founding engineer building the AI platform from zero and leading the engineering team that delivers sports-trained AI to hundreds of enterprise clients. I design enterprise-grade AI agents on Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, and NVIDIA, architect cost-effective, high-performing AWS solutions that support thousands of users, and build the DevOps and CI/CD processes that keep our AI workflows shipping.

Solutions Architecture Enterprise AI Agents Azure AI Foundry Amazon Bedrock NVIDIA AWS DevOps / CI-CD Team Leadership

Transfer Athletes is a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program.

Full-Stack Software Engineer at J.D. Heiskell

FULL-TIME · AUG 2022 TO MAR 2023

Full-stack development across Ruby on Rails and .NET, shipping and maintaining the web applications and systems that ran day-to-day operations for a five-generation business.

Ruby on Rails .NET SQL Full-Stack

Software Developer at Sandhills Global

FULL-TIME · JAN 2020 TO AUG 2022

Full-stack .NET and React development on Sandhills' high-traffic industry marketplaces. Helped build the application architecture, REST and SOAP API layers, and SQL systems that connected buyers and sellers at scale.

.NET / C# React.js REST & SOAP APIs SQL

B.S. Software Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

HIGH DISTINCTION · HONORS PROGRAM · 2018 TO 2022

Software Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and a Computer Networking certification, graduating with High Distinction as part of the Nebraska Honors program and the CSE Scholars and Leaders cohort. A strong foundation in systems, software design, and applied machine learning.

Software Engineering Mathematics Minor Computer Networking High Distinction Honors Program

What I've built

Products in production

Live AI products I've built and shipped, in use right now by real programs and thousands of users. Every one is public, so you can go see it for yourself.

Athletic Scouting AI

Transfer Athletes

An AI scouting engine for college coaches. One click generates an instant report that pulls film, verified stats, playing history, and eligibility into a single view you can read in seconds, so staffs get to the right transfers before their rivals do.

Fine-TuningMultimodalRAGVector Search

Compliance Evaluation AI Agents

Transfer Athletes

Enterprise AI agents that automate off-portal transfer eligibility investigations for college compliance offices. They compile playing history, find the right contacts, send and track tracers, and recommend eligibility, turning days of manual work into a workflow the team just supervises.

AI AgentsTypeScriptAmazon BedrockAzure AI Foundry

AI Website Creator

Summer Athletes

Upload a few photos and a sentence about your club, and the AI builds a full professional website, wired straight into payments, memberships, and CRM. It powers the club side of a platform serving thousands of sports-tech users.

Generative AINode.jsVueAWS

Sports Fintech Platform