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Ricky C

AI Architect, Engineer

About Me

As a solo founder, and a former data scientist, I have brought multiple ideas from concept into production systems. I want to help companies that want to build architectures for high throughput agentic coding, or to help them directly as an engineer with those skills. In my system designs, AI agents can work productively, with defined evaluation and control mechanisms, and connecting technical work to measurable business outcomes. I’m available for advisory, project-based, and fractional leadership engagements in AI-native engineering, applied AI product strategy, AI system architecture, experimentation, and decision science.

Jurisdiction

United States

Notable Employer

  • Data Scientist at Lyft
  • Senior Consultant at IBM

Experience

Seniority LevelMid-Senior level
Years of Experience10-15 years
Current StatusActive
FounderPeferd Inc
2024 - Present

●​ Designed the AI-native engineering system in which coding agents operated under explicit architecture, typed contracts, automated tests, independent review, and bounded production controls ●​ Designed a reusable capability architecture in which typed operations inherited common planning, authorization, routing, presentation, and recovery paths, letting agents extend the system without repeatedly inventing infrastructure ●​ Encoded architectural rules into code generators and developer and agent skills, turning design conventions into executable constraints that automated cross-service consistency, validation, deployment, device operations, and recovery ●​ Established registry-driven test suites automatically extending coverage to new capabilities and cross-language checks preventing contract drift ●​ Designed a least-trust execution model requiring every privileged action to carry fresh, signed, single-use authorization, with executor verification and durable checkpoints preventing tampering, replay, and false success after failures ●​ Converted written architecture and product requirements into 444 merged pull requests in one 85 days sprint, demonstrating high engineering throughput without a conventional engineering team

Data ScientistNotableLyft
2015 - 2024

●​ Developed causal-inference methods that defined Lyft's CEO-adopted ride-experience North Star and powered real-time optimization generating over $50M incremental profit in 2020 ●​ Applied causal inference to measure incremental returns on $80M annual partnership investments, guiding capital allocation ●​ Developed graph-based marketplace metrics identifying regional under- and oversupply, informing approximately $1B in annual driver and rider incentives ●​ Built production ML for destination prediction (31% accuracy gain), dynamic pricing using live price elasticity, and online fare-bias correction ●​ Progressed from L4 IC to hands-on leadership of 14 Data Scientists and ML Engineers ●​ 3 U.S. patents in transport and pricing optimization, and geolocation; 2015 Hackathon winner

Senior ConsultantNotableIBM
2014 - 2015

Developed ML for fraud detection; received IBM Eminence and Excellence Award

Education

Doctorate of EngineeringCornell University
2008 - 2013
Degree of MathematicsStony Brook University
2005 - 2007

Skills

Core skills7
Interests0
Languages1

Skills

AI Product Strategy
Applied AI
AI Transformation
Agentic AI
Data Science Leadership
AI Architecture
Software Engineering

Languages

English