Richard Gatchalian

Full Stack AI-Integrated Software Engineer

+1 (832) 340-6636   [email protected]

Katy, TX, USA

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Profile

Full Stack Software Engineer with strong expertise in AI-integrated products and cloud infrastructure. Comfortable owning entire features from LLM prompt design through deployment pipeline to live UI. Thrives in early-stage or research-adjacent environments, building full stack web applications, maintaining server infrastructure, and wiring up LLM pipelines to real user-facing products. Operates across startups, nonprofits, and independent projects with strong self-direction.

InfrastructureLLM PipelinesWeb ApplicationsCloud Deployment

Type: Full-time / Contract | Location: Remote / Hybrid | Level: Mid-Level (2-4 yrs)

Professional Experience

Carboncopies Foundation

Full Stack Developer | Full time

February 2024 - Present | San Francisco, CA, USA

  • Built CarbonGPT, an LLM-powered research assistant enabling advanced documentation workflows and cross-functional collaboration across the organization at chat.carboncopies.org.
  • Designed and deployed high-performance LLM RAG pipelines with Python ChromaDB backends through two server nodes.
  • Built scientist-friendly installation documentation for BrainGenix NES, an open-source C++/Python neuroscience emulation platform (supported by CarbonGPT).
  • Maintained 2+ server nodes and monitored infrastructure performance across deployed services.
  • Developed data integration for Carboncopies' Neo4j roadmap platform, converting 1,500+ nodes from JSON to Neo4j-compatible graph database format.
  • Ensured dataset compatibility between imported milestone data and the existing Cytoscape.js visualization layer at roadmap.carboncopies.org.
  • Contributed to Data Science pipeline for XOR black-box evaluation at Carboncopies, building networking and dashboard infrastructure.
  • Deployed Streamlit dashboards for GT vs SUB comparison, enabling visualization of behavioral and I/O metrics.
  • Executed Google Ads campaigns that generated $10,000 in organizational funding.
  • Produced multimedia content for Brain Preservation Foundation and Aspirational Neuroscience research teams, handling media processing and editing with ffmpeg.

Aoede LLC

Software Engineer | Freelance

March 2024 - August 2024 | Missouri City, TX, USA

  • Designed and deployed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS ECR, containerizing Node.js servers and relational databases to streamline deployments.
  • Developed form fill and PDF blob functionality for language model-based automations, enabling automated email sends for delinquent tenants.
  • Increased monthly rent roll from $67,000 to $83,000 through improved tenant management systems.
  • aoede.dev

Projects & Outside Experience

Vasanas

July 2025 - Present | Remote

  • Full-stack application using Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM.
  • Implemented multi-provider authentication (WorkOS AuthKit, NextAuth.js, Discord OAuth) with magic link support.
  • Integrated AI providers (Mistral, OpenAI, OpenRouter) with real-time token tracking and 22+ database migrations.
  • Developed streaming AI responses with semantic search via embeddings and automatic content tagging.
  • Migrated from pnpm to Bun, achieving 70.59% faster build times.

Skills

TypeScript, Postgres, Next.js, .NET, SQL Server, AWS, CI/CD, Python, SEO, HTML/CSS, Git, Docker, C#

Education

University of Texas - Dallas
Bachelor's, Software Engineering