Zachary McClurg
@zacharymcclurg
I build production AI platforms, agentic RAG systems, and data services that improve speed, accuracy, and cost.
What I'm looking for
I've built production AI platforms at Databackfill and Salesforce, delivering multi-agent workflows, RAG systems, model-routing services, and data pipelines used by tens of thousands of B2B users.
At Databackfill, I built LangGraph and LlamaIndex agent workflows, a Pinecone and pgvector RAG stack, and evaluation harnesses for prompt and agent changes. My work improved retrieval accuracy by 35%, reduced monthly LLM spend by about 30%, and brought cache-hit p95 latency below 150 ms.
I led three engineers, mentored junior developers, owned AI-platform on-call operations, and created runbooks for model and retrieval failures.
At Salesforce, I built real-time ML scoring services and event-driven data platforms processing more than 2 million daily records, improving sales-team throughput by roughly 30%. Earlier at Wise Health System, I shipped internal web applications and automation that reduced support ticket volume for 500+ staff by 60%.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior AI Software Engineer
Databackfill
Mar 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years)
Built multi-agent workflows with LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and Model Context Protocol, and a RAG stack with Pinecone, pgvector, and cross-encoder reranking. Led a team of three engineers, mentored junior engineers, and owned the on-call rotation for the AI platform.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Western Governors University
Bachelor's degree, Cloud Computing
2018 - 2022
Pursued a Bachelor's degree in Cloud Computing, gaining comprehensive knowledge in cloud infrastructure, networking, and security.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
GitHub
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
Azure Pipelines
Salesforce
PySpark
dbt
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
.NET Core
Next.js
NestJS
.NET
ASP.NET Core
Tailwind CSS
Redis
Terraform
Jira
Java
ASP.NET
JSON
scikit-learn
HubSpot
Kafka
RabbitMQ
FastAPI
asyncio
PagerDuty
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
SQLAlchemy
Windows
Windows Server
Apollo
GraphQL
NATS
gRPC
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
Protobuf
Zustand
Kafka Streams
OAuth2
Airflow
Request Metrics
Toolkit
GuardRails
NetSuite
SQL
Hugging Face
Dagster
LangChain
DuckDB
LlamaIndex
Weaviate
Shadcn/ui
Playwright
Polars
Pydantic
TanStack Query
Pinecone
CrewAI
vLLM
Jotai
Cursor
Harness
DeepEval
Sigstore
Vitest
GitHub Copilot
Zod
Ragas
Instructor
Argo CD
Cosmos
Outlines
pgvector
Agentic
LangGraph
Loops
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
React Hook Form
Redux Toolkit
Wise
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
github.com/ZaMc83Job categories
Skills
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