Bio

Senior backend engineer turned AI-native builder. Seven years shipping production payment and platform systems before pivoting into agentic engineering full time.

I got here sideways. Before software, I supervised measurement-while-drilling operations on oil rigs, wrote coreboot and UEFI firmware for embedded x86 boards, and prototyped an ELK-stack log pipeline for Cray's HPC systems. A master's in computer science at UW-Madison (distributed systems, machine learning, big data) turned that detour into a real engineering career: three years on QuickBooks' webhooks infrastructure at Intuit (10-20M notifications a day at 99.9% reliability), then four years on OKX's fiat payments platform (30+ payment providers across APAC, EU, and the US), where I led the platform's largest architectural effort.

I left OKX in May 2026, and I have used the time since to go all-in on the shift I already saw coming: agentic engineering. MCP servers, multi-agent orchestration, LLM-app architecture, the patterns that hold up outside a demo. I run all of it off a five-machine, Nix-managed homelab (Bitcoin and Lightning, Pi-hole DNS, Home Assistant, ZFS replication) that doubles as a daily proving ground for whatever I am building.

Off the keyboard: an Eagle Scout who once saved a life with CPR, a former ski instructor, two small kids, a new house, and a front yard I am slowly bringing back from the dead.

Full history on the resume. Reach me at hire@bdavis.ai.