Principal Software Engineer — I build production AI systems in regulated finance.
I ship agentic, human-in-the-loop LLM systems that operate under real regulatory constraints (SEC / FINRA), and I co-authored a security-token standard submitted to Ethereum. 15+ years building the systems other engineers build on top of — from payments and securities infrastructure to the AI layer running on top of it today.
🌐 devender.me · 💼 LinkedIn · 📍 Los Angeles · Remote
- Agentic AI in production — multi-step LLM workflows with humans in the loop, built for domains where a wrong answer has compliance consequences, not just a bad demo.
- Compliance-gated automation — AI that drafts, a person who approves; every action auditable. Vendor due diligence, complaint handling (FINRA 4530), call supervision (FINRA 3110), and personalized investor outreach (voice-cloned + accreditation-gated).
- Evaluation & reliability — the unglamorous half of applied AI: making agent output measurable, idempotent, and safe to put in front of regulated workflows.
- Prompt-caching & cost economics at production scale.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| ERC-1450 — RTA-Controlled Security Token Standard | SEC-compliant security-token standard + Halborn-audited reference contracts (UUPS, multi-sig). Submitted to Ethereum as ERCs PR #1335. |
| ethers-v6-kms-signer | An ethers.js v6 signer backed by AWS KMS — sign EVM transactions without the private key ever leaving the HSM. |
| iofinnet-openapi-spec | Community-maintained OpenAPI 3.0 spec for the IOFinNet MPC custody API. |
Before AI, I spent six years building the core of a securities platform that has moved $1B+ in compliant offerings: payments, escrow, secondary-market trading, the recommendation engine, the data warehouse, and the shared libraries every microservice is built on. Then I built the tokenization stack (hybrid AWS KMS + IOFinnet MPC custody, 500K+ on-chain mints on Polygon) and the AI platform running on top of all of it.
Python · FastAPI · TypeScript / Node.js · Java / Spring · Solidity / Hardhat
PostgreSQL · Kafka · Redis · AWS (ECS, KMS, RDS, SES) · Terraform
Claude · OpenAI · MCP · LangChain
- ✍️ I write & self-publish children's books as D.G Sunny — the Red Robot series and The Cat Monster of Blackpine Mountain (my words and stories; illustrations with AI).
- 🎶 I play ukulele on YouTube (@gdevender).
Always happy to talk about applied AI in regulated domains, agent evaluation, or on-chain securities. Reach me via devender.me.