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Apr 2026 — Present · Hybrid

AI Engineer — Alliant Insurance Services

  • Lead developer on a benefit extraction platform that turns uploaded benefit summaries into structured, Excel-ready benefit grids — cutting analyst extraction time from 30–50 minutes per document to about 2.
  • Architected the full system on Snowflake's native stack — React frontend and FastAPI backend in Snowpark Container Services, arq-based job queue, and managed Postgres with Alembic migrations.
  • Designed the extraction pipeline end-to-end: uploads to server-side-encrypted Snowflake stages, AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT with layout mode, and AI_COMPLETE with hand-tuned structured output schemas.
  • Built a custom evaluation system scoring extraction output against analyst-verified benefit grids; tuned schemas to a consistent 85% accuracy.
  • Added an analyst-controlled restyling pass — per-field few-shot examples, toggleable, run as a second pass — plus analyst-defined custom fields with their own extraction prompts.
  • Diagnosed intermittent connection failures to Postgres SNAT port exhaustion under concurrent load; resolved by migrating to Snowflake-managed Postgres.
Oct 2025 — Present · Solo project

Founder & Engineer — Byzantine.ai

  • Designed, built, and shipped an AI assistant for the Byzantine Catholic tradition — answers on theology, liturgy, and canon law with cited passages from primary sources.
  • Built the retrieval and citation pipeline over a curated corpus of Church documents, prioritizing source-grounded answers over generic model output.
  • Built at the request of the Bishop of Phoenix; maintained and expanded for clergy, seminarians, and educators.
Jun 2025 — Sep 2025 · In-person

Software Engineer — Airloom

  • Contributed to an AI-powered video search platform on a cross-functional team.
  • Engineered a validation workflow for Gemini model outputs using custom schemas, cutting false positives by roughly 70%.
  • Built responsive, accessible UIs in React backed by hosted Python APIs.
Jun 2024 — Jun 2025 · In-person

Software Engineer — Griptape

  • Built full-stack features for Griptape Cloud; developed React UIs including GitHub repo selectors, asset managers, and data transform tools.
  • Architected a custom serialization framework for Griptape structures — workflows and agents — using custom Marshmallow schemas for efficient persistence.
  • Led a customer-facing project building an AI agent-based CSV transformer, cutting manual data entry by an estimated 95% on 100,000+ row royalty statements.
  • Standardized 20+ UI/UX components into a unified design system, accelerating team feature development by an estimated 30%.

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Byzantine.ai

An AI assistant for the Byzantine Catholic tradition — questions on theology, liturgy, and canon law answered with cited passages from primary sources. Designed, built, and shipped solo, at the request of the Bishop of Phoenix.

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I build production AI systems end-to-end — pipelines, evaluation, and the interfaces around them. If that sounds like what your team needs, reach out.

emailwillvrd88@gmail.comgithubgithub.com/william-price01linkedinlinkedin.com/in/william-price1

I also take on select freelance projects — AI tooling, extraction pipelines, full-stack builds. Ask about it.