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Nicholas Gunder
Director of Engineering specializing in FinTech, SRE, and AI platforms
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Engineering leader with deep hands-on experience across people management, product ownership, SRE, and architecture, currently leading a 15-person senior engineering team he largely built himself. He is actively applying AI/LLMs to both internal developer productivity and customer-facing financial support workflows, including an LLM ledger chatbot with automated guardrail evaluation in a regulated environment.
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Key Strengths
- Leads 15-engineer senior full-stack team
- Previously managed teams of 30+
- Built and retained team with only 1 attrition in 5 years
- Owns both engineering and product for current area
- Scaled CI/CD automation and reduced manual DevOps toil
- Applied AI/LLMs to code review, security review, and internal automation
- Structured prioritization using effort-impact scoring
- Hands-on architecture leadership for monolith-to-microservices migration
- Strong understanding of cohesion/coupling and stateless service design
- Built LLM chatbot for customer ledger support use case
- Created secondary LLM-based evaluation workflow for guardrails and prompt improvement
- Experience simplifying complex financial workflows for end users
- SRE and incident management experience in high-severity production environments
- Cross-functional coordination during customer-blocking incidents
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