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Mike Perales

@mikeperales

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I build AI, fintech, and financial platforms that scale securely in real time.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build secure, scalable AI and financial platforms, especially products involving LLMs, real-time data pipelines, workflow automation, and high-impact backend systems.

At Scale AI, I built the core web app and backend for the SEAL platform, supporting a research team that published over 450 public evaluations and automated benchmarks for labs including OpenAI and Google.

I designed Python, Node.js, and AWS evaluation pipelines for multi-turn AI red-teaming at scale, and built React, Next.js, and TypeScript dashboards for real-time security and safety metrics. I also led engineering work on Project Thunderforge, deploying secure mission-planning software with Microsoft and Anduril.

Previously at Zocks, I built fintech workflow automation that reduced manual meeting documentation time by 40% and integrated OpenAI API and LangChain models to reach 95% conversational data-extraction accuracy for asset-management and compliance meetings.

Across HighRadius and Stripe, I've built financial products, AI-powered cash forecasting workflows, data pipelines, and reliable backend services. I work across Python, Java, Node.js, React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB to ship secure, scalable systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Scale AI

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Built the core web app and backend for Scale's SEAL platform, supporting a research team that published over 450 public evaluations and automated benchmarks for top-tier labs. Designed data logging and evaluation pipelines from scratch using Python, Node.js, and AWS, scaling to handle multi-turn AI red teaming sessions across thousands of simultaneous adversarial users.