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Joshua Outwater

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI platforms and FinTech systems

EarthXCGCal Poly San Luis ObispoSan Francisco, CA27 Years ExperienceDirector Level

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Fintech and AI product engineer who has owned major production rollouts, including Lending Club's banking-arm launch, and has since built LLM-powered decision systems for finance and climate use cases. Particularly strong in combining stakeholder management with pragmatic architecture choices like observability, deterministic pipeline design, RAG, and document-to-structured-data workflows.

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Key Strengths

  • owned end-to-end deployment of Lending Club's banking arm
  • strong observability and production performance focus
  • stakeholder management during high-impact banking incidents
  • debugged transaction-processing issues in regulated financial systems
  • built AI-powered financial modeling platform for executive decision-making
  • practical LLM architecture design with LangGraph, RAG, and human-in-the-loop workflows
  • improved AI output quality using domain-specific examples and structured responses
  • reduced non-deterministic AI failures by redesigning pipelines to be more deterministic
  • experience turning messy documents into validated structured data workflows
  • domain experience across fintech and climate/carbon data

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Experience

AI Systems Builder / Technical AdvisorEarthXCG · Nov 2025 – Present
Senior Director of EngineeringSequoia · Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
Director of Engineering, Banking & Consumer ServicesLendingClub · Jan 2014 – Jan 2025
Vice President, EngineeringBlackRock · Jan 2006 – Jan 2014
Senior Software EngineerApple · Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Software EngineerSun Microsystems · Jan 1999 – Jan 2005

Education

Cal Poly San Luis Obispobachelor, Computer Science

Languages

English

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