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Kervintz
Noel

AI Solutions Engineer — Pre-Flight Checklist

LocationBoston, Massachusetts
DisciplineAI Workflows & Production Reliability
Experience12 years
StatusOpen to full-time
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I design, implement, and stabilize AI-powered workflows for real business operations.

I combine software engineering, production reliability, API integration, and customer-facing troubleshooting to turn AI prototypes into dependable systems — grounded in site reliability engineering at a Fortune 100 company and years supporting enterprise legal technology platforms.

About

Where the reliability instinct came from, and why it shows up in the code.

I live in Boston, where I build web applications and the infrastructure underneath them. I started programming in high school in Haiti and moved to the United States to build a career in tech — teaching myself to code while working in IT, until I committed fully to software development in 2019.

I build for longevity — systems that stay reliable long after the launch excitement fades.

Customer support and years supporting enterprise legal technology at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds and Brown Rudnick gave me empathy for the people using what I build — I was the first call when something broke for a real user. Site reliability engineering at a Fortune 100 company gave me production judgment: how systems actually fail, and what it takes to keep them running.

Now I build the software and AI systems myself, so I own the whole thing end to end.

Outside of code, you'll find me doing lawn care, knee-deep in a handyman project around the house, or firing up the grill with my wife and my two boys.

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Record

Twelve years from help desk to site reliability engineering to independent AI and software engineering — the roles where I learned how production systems actually break, and how to build them so they don't.

  1. Jun 2025 — Present

    Current

    Independent Engineer

    Self-DirectedBoston, MA

    Building across mobile, web, and infrastructure, with four independent products owned end to end — from architecture and implementation through testing and release. Currently expanding that work into AI engineering through a focused program of advanced coursework and production-oriented projects built in public

    • ReactJavaScript library for building user interfaces out of reusable components.
    • React NativeFramework for building native iOS and Android apps from React code.
    • Next.jsReact framework with server rendering, routing, and API routes built in.
    • AWSAmazon's cloud platform for compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
    • TypeScriptJavaScript with static types that are checked before the code runs.
    • SupabaseHosted Postgres with authentication, file storage, and auto-generated APIs.

  2. Jan 2023 — Jun 2025

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Liberty Mutual InsuranceBoston, MA

    Investigated production issues across distributed cloud services, APIs, and event-driven systems, driving root-cause analysis with engineering teams. Analyzed internal and third-party APIs to identify technical debt and failure patterns. Built a React-based internal dashboard to visualize system health and improve operational visibility. Monitored production environments using Datadog and BigPanda, correlating alerts to reduce noise and accelerate resolution.

    • AWSAmazon's cloud platform for compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
    • ReactJavaScript library for building user interfaces out of reusable components.
    • DatadogMonitoring platform for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
    • BigPandaAlert-correlation platform that groups related alerts into single incidents.
    • PythonGeneral-purpose language used here for data processing and AI services.
    • GitHub ActionsGitHub's built-in automation for CI/CD and repository workflows.

  3. Jun 2019 — Nov 2021

    Enterprise Applications Support Specialist

    Brown Rudnick LLPBoston, MA

    Administered and supported enterprise legal technology platforms (iManage Work, Aderant Expert, Intapp, CompuLaw) across eight international offices, serving as primary escalation point for application-level incidents. Designed onboarding documentation adopted firm-wide that reduced new-hire ramp-up time by ~15%. Proactively identified recurring failure trends and drove process improvements that reduced repeat incident volume. Managed 40+ daily support requests while maintaining SLA compliance.

    • iManageDocument and email management system used by law firms.
    • Aderant ExpertPractice and financial management software for law firms.
    • IntappCompliance, intake, and risk software for professional-services firms.
    • CompuLawCourt-rules-based deadline and docketing software for legal teams.
    • ServiceNowEnterprise platform for IT service management and ticketing.

  4. Aug 2018 — Apr 2019

    Desktop Support Analyst

    Massachusetts College of Art and DesignBoston, MA

    Delivered end-user support for faculty, staff, and students across a public higher-education environment. Deployed, imaged, and configured 100+ Windows and macOS devices. Led software packaging and deployment to classrooms using PDQ Deploy. Collaborated on Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration and maintained accurate device configuration documentation.

    • Active DirectoryMicrosoft's directory service for user accounts, groups, and access.
    • PDQ DeployTool for packaging and pushing software to Windows endpoints.
    • WindowsMicrosoft's desktop operating system.
    • macOSApple's desktop operating system.
    • SCCMMicrosoft tool for deploying software and managing Windows machines at scale.

  5. 2014 — Jul 2018

    IT Support Specialist

    Full-Time & Contract RolesBoston, MA

    Provided Tier 1 and Tier 2 support across enterprise and academic environments. Supported Windows and macOS endpoints, printers, conferencing tools, and mobile devices. Handled user access, authentication, and account troubleshooting in Active Directory environments. Executed scripted and command-line tasks for deployments, logging and resolving tickets in accordance with SLA expectations.

    • Active DirectoryMicrosoft's directory service for user accounts, groups, and access.
    • SCCMMicrosoft tool for deploying software and managing Windows machines at scale.
    • PDQ DeployTool for packaging and pushing software to Windows endpoints.
    • ServiceNowEnterprise platform for IT service management and ticketing.
    • ZendeskCustomer-support ticketing and help-desk platform.

Current

One shipped. Three more planned.

Shipped — 1

Shipped · Aug 2026

Complete

AI Digital Twin

An AI assistant that answers questions about my background, experience, and projects in my own framing. Grounded in a curated summary and my LinkedIn export, it captures contact details from interested visitors, flags anything it couldn't answer, and embeds directly into this site at /twin.

  • Ground answers in a curated professional summary and LinkedIn data — done
  • Run an OpenAI tool-calling loop with function tools — done
  • Capture leads and flag unanswered questions via push notification — done
  • Ship a standalone UI and a portfolio-embedded mode — done
  • Automate push-to-deploy to Hugging Face Spaces — done
  • Python
  • OpenAI API
  • Gradio
  • Hugging Face Spaces
  • GitHub Actions
  • uv

Read the case study

In progress — 1 of 4 started

Project 01

In progress

Local Bank Statement Analyzer

Import months or years of bank and credit-card statements and get one consolidated, local view of your finances across every account. Deterministic Python parses and reconciles the numbers; AI is used only for interpretation, and PII never leaves the machine.

  • Extract raw transactions from PDF/CSV statements — not started
  • Define and validate a normalized transaction schema — not started
  • Merge multi-account, multi-month statements and reconcile against balances — not started
  • Detect recurring expenses, duplicates, and spending categories — not started
  • Strip PII and generate a consolidated financial report — not started
  • Python
  • uv
  • PyMuPDF
  • Pydantic
  • Polars
  • pytest
  • Ruff

View build brief

Notes

What I learned and what broke. Written as I go, not after the fact.

In the pipeline

  • How I Think About Longevity for Software Development With AISep 2026

Posts live here first. I'll start cross-posting them on Hashnode.

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