Corey B

About

Corey B.

AI Tech Lead • Software Architect • Builder

AI Tech Lead and software architect with deep experience building and operating production-grade web and generative AI systems at scale. Strong focus on AI safety, guardrails, and pragmatic engineering practices that enable responsible deployment.

Notable

Spoke at Google Cloud Next 2024 — Las Vegas

Presented alongside the CTO on AI-powered site search and the ByteSage generative AI platform.

Experience

AI Tech Lead / Software Architect

U.S. News & World Report — June 2015 – Present

Spoke alongside the CTO at Google Cloud Next 2024 (Las Vegas) on AI-powered site search.

  • ›Established and lead the AI Pod serving the entire company; maintain 5–7 in-flight projects at a time.
  • ›Built and operate ByteSage: a generative AI platform powering production AI search, doctor review summaries, senior living moderation, and grounded email generation.
  • ›Delivered the Academic Insights agent enabling non-technical users to interact conversationally with a complex API.
  • ›Designed multi-layer AI safety and guardrails using graph-based conditional logic for sensitive-topic handling.

Software Systems Engineer

Binary Group — February 2011 – May 2015

  • ›Advanced from Systems Administrator to Software Systems Engineer.
  • ›Led company migration to AWS and Microsoft Office 365 / SharePoint.
  • ›Contributed to projects for the VA Innovation Initiative and federal agencies including the EPA, NASA, and U.S. Army.

Junior Windows System Administrator

National Radio Astronomy Observatory — December 2007 – January 2011

  • ›Supported 400+ users and systems across telescope facilities.
  • ›Transitioned into software engineering to develop telescope calibration data systems.

Skills & tools

Languages & Frameworks

PythonDjangoFlaskLangChainLangGraphReactNext.jsTypeScriptJava.NET

LLM & AI Architecture

RAGAgentic workflowsTool-using agentsPrompt managementEvaluation & guardrailsGrounded generationGraph-based orchestration

LLMs

GeminiChatGPT / OpenAILlama

Vector & Search

FAISSOpenSearchpgvectorElasticsearch

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLRedisMemcached

Cloud & Infrastructure

DockerAWSGCPVertex AI SearchCloudFormationS3EC2RDS

DevOps

GitGitLab CIJenkinsBash

Web & CMS

Tailwind CSSWagtail CMSHTMXHTML/CSS/JS

Side projects

All projects →

Thalos

thalos.ai ↗

Python/Django/LangGraph platform for building and running complex agentic applications. Powers Delicio (recipe & meal planning with a conversational AI), a Discord-based tool-using RPG agent, and serves as portable reference architecture for production AI development.

Also building: MidnightEngine (interactive fiction engine with a Chronicle RPG mode), Driftwall (AI wallpaper curator with semantic text overlays), PhotoAtlas (local AI photo catalog), and more. See all projects →

Education

  • B.S. Computer Science & Engineering

    New Mexico Tech — High Honors, GPA 3.63

  • A.A.S. Computing Technology

    Albuquerque TVI (now CNM)

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