Jose Mendoza

AI/ML Solutions Architect & Engineer

Creative, Big-Picture, AI-Augmented Architect

About

AI/ML Solutions Architect & Engineer with 18+ years of hands-on delivery across enterprise systems, now leveraging AI to operate end-to-end — from requirements through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. I design and build AI-powered product features, architect agentic systems, and ship production code, combining deep architectural maturity with the velocity that AI tooling unlocks. AI has reignited my ability to work as a complete, back-to-back Product Architect and Engineer. Using AI coding tools, I deliver what previously required entire teams: gathering requirements, designing RAG and Agent architectures, implementing MCP-based product interfaces, fine-tuning LLMs, building CI/CD AI-agent integrations for quality guardrails, writing tests, automating infrastructure, and supporting production.

AI/MLGenAISolutions ArchitectureCloud StrategyAgentic SystemsJavaPythonData EngineeringHands-onSystem Design

Experience

EPAM Systems

Solutions Architect

December 2019 - Present Poland
  • Partnered with engineering teams to architect fit-for-purpose solutions (GenAI, Distributed Systems, WebApps, Data Pipelines, APIs, DevOps) for clients.
  • Focused on mediation, negotiation, and leadership to align comprehensive solutions with business goals and enterprise context.

Lead Software Engineer

January 2018 - December 2019 Poland
  • Implemented a financial accounting/liquidity reporting product using a distributed concurrent data processing system.
  • Created a Java Apache Spark Pipeline Framework and a SME-friendly PySpark SQL framework to standardize ETL.

Senior Software Engineer

January 2016 - December 2017 Poland
  • Developed/maintained banking software, focusing on a resilient, multithreaded Java ETL system with a web UI.

GFT

Technical Consultant

January 2015 - December 2015 Poland
  • Led technical team, defined backend architecture, implemented requirements, managed customer requirements, proposed new solutions.

System Consultant

May 2013 - December 2014 Poland
  • Designed and implemented Core Banking application requirements.
  • Managed customer requirements, installation environment prep/config, process detailed design, problem diagnosis, solution proposal.

INDRA

Senior Software Engineer

November 2012 - April 2013 Spain
  • Development of a Revenue Accounting software tool for the airline industry.
  • Created services for mass data processing (validation, transformation), PL/SQL development.

Creandosoft

Software Engineer

January 2007 - November 2011 Colombia
  • Worked on web information systems for various domains (chemical, retail, transport, health).
  • Requirements analysis, use case specification, database design, coding, testing, user documentation, production support.

Cerrejon

Intern

June 2006 - December 2006 Colombia
  • Monitored operational efficiency and budgets for Coal Plants and Railroad.
  • Elaborated reports for business analysis, implemented electronic facilities for indicators, supported ERP (ELLIPSE).

Skills

Architecture & Cloud

AI-Augmented Full-Lifecycle DeliverySolutions ArchitectureCloud ArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservicesDDDEvent-Driven ArchitectureAPI Design

Programming

PythonJavaJavaScriptPL/SQL

Data & Infra

Azure AI SearchMLFlowOpen WebUIvLLMOllamaLM StudiochromadbpgvectorpineconeCosmosDBPostgreSQLOracleMongoDBMySQLFirebaseBigQueryApache SparkHadoopAirflowApache Kafka

Cloud & DevOps

Azure (AKS, Functions, Key Vault, Service Bus, API Management)GCPDockerKubernetesHelmAnsibleTerraformJenkinsGitHub ActionsCI/CD

AI/ML & Agents

LLMs (GPTs, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek)LLM Inference (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio)Fine-Tuning LLMsMLOpsPrompt/Context EngineeringRAGAI Agent Architecture (LangChain, CrewAI)Model Context Protocol (MCP)Structured Data ExtractionCode GenerationCI/CD AI-Agent IntegrationAI Coding Tools (Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Kiro, Windsurf, Roo Code, GitHub Copilot)

Certifications

  • Google Professional Cloud Architect
  • Anthropic Claude Courses
  • Deep Learning AI Courses
  • IASA CITA-Foundation