Available for contract engagements

Ricardo A.
Vega Jr.

AI Engineer  ·  Full-Stack Architect  ·  SaaS Founder

34 years building software.
AI infrastructure in production — not in demos.

34 Years shipping code
28 AI models routed through my relay
7 Gemini AI pipeline components in prod
8s Dispatch audio to enriched lead

AI Systems I've Shipped

Not API wrappers. Multi-component AI pipelines, private model relay infrastructure, and real-time audio intelligence — all running in production.

api.noctusoft.com — Private Multi-Model AI Relay  ·  28 models  ·  4 providers  ·  LiteLLM proxy + local Ollama on M4 Max via Tailscale VPN
Local (Ollama) qwen-coder-32b · qwen-coder-7b · llama-70b · qwen-3b-instruct 0.28s – 5.05s
Anthropic claude-opus-4.5 · claude-sonnet-4.5 · claude-haiku-4.5 · and 6 more 9 models
OpenAI gpt-4o · gpt-4o-mini · gpt-4-turbo · and 6 more 9 models
Google gemini-2.5-flash · gemini-2.0-flash production
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Gemini Structured-Output Pipeline

7 production AI components in Ember Lead using gemini-2.5-flash with JSON Schema response constraints. Extracts structured data from fire dispatch text, raw address blobs, county property records, and Zillow HTML — all schema-constrained, all in production.

gemini-2.5-flash structured output JSON Schema TypeScript
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Real-Time Fire Radio Transcription

OpenAI Whisper consuming live Broadcastify fire scanner audio buffers, domain-prompted for fire-radio vocabulary ("Engine, working fire, address correction..."). Output feeds directly into the Gemini lead parsing pipeline. Audio to structured lead data, no human in the loop.

Whisper whisper-1 real-time audio domain prompting pipeline chaining
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Private AI Relay Infrastructure

Built and operate a private AI API relay at api.noctusoft.com — upstream keys injected server-side, client apps never hold provider credentials. LiteLLM proxy on Azure VM, local Ollama on M4 Max hardware, Tailscale VPN routing, per-tenant rate limiting.

LiteLLM Ollama Azure VM Tailscale VPN M4 Max
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AI-Powered Financial Advisor

Plaid API → AI analysis → daily corporate and personal financial reports delivered via automated SMS and email. Tracks S-Corp payroll cycles, spending anomalies, and budget variances. Runs on a schedule, no manual intervention.

Plaid API automated reporting Python SMS + Email
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AI Address Intelligence

Two-stage address pipeline: GeminiAddressSplitter parses unstructured dispatch text blobs into individual address candidates; GeminiAddressVerifier cross-validates each against Google Maps geocoding results before triggering paid enrichment. Gates $0.XX-per-call enrichment APIs with zero false positives.

gemini-2.5-flash Google Maps API cost optimization
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AI Owner & Property Enrichment

When primary data sources (ATTOM, RentCast, Zillow, county scrapers) return partial or null results, AI takes over: GeminiOwnerNameParser decodes county-formatted owner strings ("MASK RUSSELL L & PENNY C") for skip-trace APIs; GeminiPropertyEnricher estimates value, sqft, beds/baths; ZillowGeminiFallback extracts from raw __NEXT_DATA__ JSON.

structured fallback gemini-2.5-flash skip-trace chain
Ember Lead — Full AI Pipeline
┌─ Broadcastify audio stream Whisper → fire radio transcription, domain-prompted
├─ PulsePoint API → structured fire dispatch data (parallel source)
├─ GeminiLeadParser Gemini → extract address, fire type, severity, structure type
├─ GeminiAddressSplitter Gemini → parse multi-address blobs into candidates
├─ GeminiAddressVerifier Gemini → cross-validate vs Google Maps geocoding → gate paid enrichment
├─ Property enrichment waterfall → ATTOM → RentCast → Redfin → Zillow → county scrapers
├─ GeminiOwnerNameParser Gemini → decode county-formatted owner names for skip-trace
├─ Phone skip-trace waterfall → BatchSkip → Spokeo → Tracerfy
├─ GeminiOwnerEnricher / GeminiPropertyEnricher Gemini → AI fallback for null results
├─ ZillowGeminiFallback Gemini → extract missing fields from __NEXT_DATA__ JSON
├─ OccupantClassifier → owner-occupant vs renter detection
└─ LeadScorer → 0–100 score (fire severity 30% · property value 35% · structure 20% · recency 15%)

Shipped. Live. Revenue-Generating.

SaaS products built solo from concept to production billing, plus infrastructure tools running in multi-tenant environments.

Live

Scholarmancy

Deployed on Railway

EdTech SaaS platform running in production with its own API service. Live and serving users.

SaaSRailway
Live

FieldView.Live

Deployed on Railway

Live production application with dedicated API service on Railway.

SaaSRailway
Live

Escalating Reminders

Deployed on Railway

Automated escalating notification service running in production.

AutomationRailway
Infrastructure

Noctusoft API Relay

api.noctusoft.com

Multi-tenant relay infrastructure proxying SendGrid, Twilio, Square, Google APIs, and the private 28-model AI relay. API keys injected server-side; tenants authenticate against Noctusoft credentials only. Per-tenant rate limiting, IP allowlists, domain enforcement.

28 AI models Node.js Azure LiteLLM
25+ Years Running

Armageddon 20XX

a20xx.com  ·  Darkware, Inc.

World's first multi-format laser tag tournament. Founded 2000, still running. 18+ tournaments, 15+ systems, 4 countries. If a side project can outlast most startups by 20 years, you're doing something right.

HTML/CSS/JSTwilio SMS

Every Major Wave. Every Major Platform.

Mainframe → client/server → web → mobile → cloud → AI. Still here. Still shipping.

AI / ML
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Claude (Anthropic) GPT-4o / OpenAI Whisper Ollama (local LLMs) LiteLLM Structured outputs JSON Schema constraints Multi-provider routing
Languages
TypeScript C# Python Node.js / JavaScript PHP C++ / C VB / VB.NET Delphi / Object Pascal COBOL / JCL / SAS Assembler (MVS/ESA)
Frontend
Next.js (App Router) React Native / Expo Blazor Angular KnockoutJS jQuery / jQuery Mobile HTML5 / CSS3 Bootstrap
Backend
Express.js .NET 10 / ASP.NET Core WebAPI / MVC WCF / SOAP Microservices OData v4 PHP / CodeIgniter Apache Tomcat / JSP
Data
MongoDB MSSQL / T-SQL PostgreSQL DynamoDB CosmosDB Oracle / PL-SQL MySQL IBM DB2 IMS
Cloud / DevOps
Azure AWS Railway Vercel GitHub Actions Turborepo / pnpm Docker Tailscale VPN Azure Relay IIS / Apache / Nginx

34 Years. Every Platform. Still Building.

Mainframe COBOL to multi-model AI pipelines — not a career pivot, an evolution.

2011 – Present

Owner / Principal Engineer

Noctusoft, Inc.  ·  Fort Worth, Texas

Bootstrapped and operate a Texas S-Corp delivering enterprise software consulting and SaaS products. Built Ember Lead / Tankroom from concept to paying customers — a real-time AI fire damage lead generation platform with a 7-component Gemini pipeline, Whisper audio transcription, and full React Native mobile app. Operate a private 28-model AI relay on Azure. Enterprise clients include Choctaw Nation, Pioneer Natural Resources, Match.com, American Airlines, AAFES, and T-Systems.

1996 – 2011

Principal Consultant

Vega And Associates, Ltd.  ·  Keller, Texas

15 years of independent consulting across financial services, banking, and mortgage industries. Built WinForms data conversion tools for TD BankNorth, PHP web applications, DotNetNuke custom modules, and open-source contributions (Delphi OCR app, PHP schedule generator LGPL3). Clients included Amerifunds, Bayview Funding, Interbay Funding, and Meritech Mortgage.

1996

Programmer Analyst

Rapp Collins  ·  Irving, Texas

Redesigned Bell Canada telephone award system on MVS/ESA. Replaced 10 VSAM files with a modular architecture — reduced development time by 25%. Microfocus COBOL, XDB/DB2.

1992 – 1996

Programmer

Lomas Information Systems  ·  Dallas, Texas

Where it started. COBOL II loan acquisition conversion systems on OS/MVS/ESA. COBOL/SAS/JCL subsystem redesign achieving 80% efficiency improvement. Performance tuning across COBOL, SAS, Assembler, TSO CLIST, and IMS — 60% run time reduction. The kind of constraints that make you a better engineer everywhere else for the rest of your career.


Fortune 500s. Federal. Tribal Government.

C2C engagements through enterprise staffing firms. Every sector. Every scale.

Choctaw Nation

Tribal member benefits admin. Blazor components, SOLID refactor, .NET 6 / CosmosDB.

Pioneer Natural Resources

Parsley acquisition data migration. Spreadsheets → MSSQL + Unifier. Fortune 500 E&P.

American Airlines

High-availability career site (AWS full stack), Facebook app (10M+ users), REST API, deployment pipeline tooling.

AAFES

Army & Air Force Exchange Service. Mobile minutes tracking, SharePoint checkbook replacement.

T-Systems

Emergency room admittance software. C++/C#, 100+ hospital deployments, Managed Cache with 1000x performance improvement.

Match.com

Facebook login/signup integration across PeopleMedia properties. CoreAPI rewiring.

Summit Investment

Custom financial tooling and enterprise software consulting.

TD BankNorth

WinForms data conversion — customer data, commercial real estate, mortgage loans.


Let's Build
Something.

Available for C2C contract engagements. Enterprise consulting, AI pipeline development, SaaS architecture, full-stack engineering.

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Location
Fort Worth, TX 76148