Brian Rice

• Building Generative AI products using technologies such as TypeScript, React, Python, Node.js, Java Spring Boot, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LLM integration, ChromaDB, Solr DB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub, Material UI.
• Take product concepts from PoC through to production, following Scrum methodology with TDD/BDD and automated CICD pipelines using tools such as Digital.ai Agility, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, React Test Library, PyTest.
• Building backend microservices with Rest APIs created with Python FastAPI and tested with pytest
• Building web clients using React, TypeScript and tested with RTL.
• Implementing OAuth 2.0 Authorization code flow with PKCE for authorization between web client and REST APIs

Worked on various products, such as:

• QnA assistant, using Gen AI, for Allstate product teams to ask about licensed and developed software products within Allstate
• HR copilot, using Copilot Studio, to assist Allstate employees with HR related queries.
• Investments dashboard for Allstate Investments using React frontend with Material UI components and Java Sprint Boot backend REST API services

• Researched emerging technologies and built proof of concepts to support Allstate business areas and strategic ventures
• Developed solution ideas to business problems by identifying testable hypotheses and designing experiments to prove/disprove them
• Specialised in decentralized technologies such as Blockchain, Distrubuted Ledgers, Ethereum, Corda, Hyperledger Indy/Aries, Solidity, Smart Contracts, DIDs, Verifiable Credentials and Self Sovereign Identity wallets.
• Research privacy preserving technologies such as Zero Knowledge Proofs, Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Enclaves Confidential Computing
• Other technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Python, Java Spring Boot, Kotlin, Node.js, AWS (S3, Amazon Connect, EC2, ECS), C#, Git, Docker, Linux, Apigee, Jenkins.

Worked on projects such as

• Insurance Subrogation using distributed ledger technology, including Ethereum and Corda
• Digital identity solutions using Hyperledger Indy/Ursa/Aries, Sovrin, Evernym Agents/Wallet, Trinsic wallet.
• Voice solution using Amazon Connect, AWS S3, EC2, ECS

• Worked in four different teams throughout this time, building production web and backend applications to support Allstate’s insurance business
• Used .Net, C# and JavaScript
• Collaborated with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure quality and timely delivery of software products

• Built software solutions relating to financial derivatives for clients in financial sector
• Worked with Royal Bank of Scotland fixed income trading in City of London for nine months, providing software support and development
• Built solutions using Kx Systems high-performance database and analytics software, to handle real-time data processing and analysis

• Performed capacity planning for Intel’s new Fab24 300mm wafer technology lab, one of most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
• Spent three months in New Mexico training in Intel’s state of art Fab, learning about latest technologies and processes for chip fabrication