Alex Duvall

Engineering Leader

Summary

Technical leader transforming enterprise engineering services through strategic AI integration, driving $1M ARR and 90% efficiency improvements. Pioneered LLM-powered automation at PARQ that revolutionized product sustainability modeling at scale, delivering $5M RFQ-critical reports in 72 days vs. industry-standard 9 months. Co-founded and scaled Wedge Financial's AI-enhanced fintech platform to 100,000 users. Proven ability to identify AI opportunities within traditional engineering workflows and deliver 10x improvements in speed, accuracy, and business value.

Experience

Head of Engineering & Technical Advisor

PARQ | Austin, TX

2023-Present
  • • Pioneered AI-powered LCA methodology reducing industrial coatings sustainability analysis from 9 months to 90 days through LLM/AI-powered automation, enabling $1M ARR in engineering services revenue
  • • Delivered 13 Scope III emissions reports (EPDs) in record 72 days supporting $5M RFQ requirement, vs. industry standard of 9 months per report—a 10x efficiency improvement
  • • Architected LLM-powered agent using OpenAI and LangChain to automate Scope III data collection from 1000 raw material suppliers, reducing manual analysis time by 85%
  • • Scaled sustainability consulting practice from single client to 5 enterprise accounts through AI-enhanced delivery model, achieving 90% client retention
  • • Architected comprehensive MCP (Model Context Protocol) service ecosystem with 15 custom connectors enabling autonomous LCA/EPD generation and marketing workflows, replacing manual processes with agentic AI systems

Co-Founder, CTO, & Technical Advisor

Wedge Financial | Austin, TX

2020-Present
  • • Architected and scaled fintech platform from 0 to 100,000 users, processing millions of daily API calls with 99.9% uptime while integrating ChatGPT for intelligent transaction insights
  • • Built and led engineering team from solo founder to team of 12, increasing deployment frequency from monthly to daily while maintaining zero critical production incidents
  • • Designed full-stack architecture leveraging AWS ECS, Python/Django, React Native, and FastAPI, reducing deployment cadence from 2 weeks to on-demand through automated CI/CD pipelines
  • • Integrated LLM capabilities across platform for fraud detection and user support, reducing manual review time by 70% and improving customer satisfaction scores
  • • Led data analytics infrastructure using Segment, Kinesis, and custom ETL pipelines, enabling real-time persona creation and reducing customer acquisition cost by 35%
  • • Drove technical decisions generating 40% YoY revenue growth through strategic API partnerships, multi-asset support (stocks, crypto, points), and AI-powered recommendation engine

Software Architect (Contract)

Advanced Spirits | Houston, TX

2023-2024
  • • Architected and delivered custom warehouse management system from zero to production in 4 months, automating inventory tracking for 100,000 SKUs across multiple facilities
  • • Built full-stack solution using React, Django, and PostgreSQL, reducing inventory reconciliation time from 8 hours daily to 30 minutes or less
  • • Added real-time Excel synchronization layer using custom APIs, allowing operations team to maintain familiar spreadsheet workflows while gaining automated inventory tracking capabilities

VP Software

Restream Solutions | Austin, TX

2018-2021
  • • Led 8-engineer team building IoT analytics platform for 10,000 remote oil & gas devices, from embedded firmware to cloud infrastructure, achieving 99.95% uptime across harsh field conditions
  • • Developed embedded Linux solutions on BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi platforms using Python and C/C++, implementing edge computing algorithms that reduced cellular data usage by 75% while maintaining real-time monitoring
  • • Architected hardware-software integration managing sensor protocols (Modbus, I2C, SPI), custom device drivers, and OTA firmware updates across distributed fleet with 0.1% brick rate
  • • Designed fault-tolerant embedded systems with hardware watchdogs, redundant data paths, and graceful degradation, achieving 99.9% field reliability in 40°F to 140°F conditions
  • • Built hybrid edge-cloud architecture processing 50GB daily sensor data, with intelligent edge filtering reducing cloud costs by 60% while maintaining millisecond-level anomaly detection

Data Engineer

ClosedLoop.ai | Austin, TX

2018
  • • Architected Scala-based ETL modules processing terabyte-scale healthcare datasets using Apache Spark, reducing model training time from several days to a few hours
  • • Implemented MLOps infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and AWS, enabling rapid deployment of ML models that improved patient outcome predictions by 25%
  • • Optimized Spark-based data lake architecture serving as generalized storage mechanism, reducing query times by 80%

Full Stack Engineer

NarrativeDX | Austin, TX

2017-2018
  • • Built healthcare analytics dashboard using Python/Django, Vue.js, and D3.js visualizations, serving 500 healthcare providers with real-time patient experience insights
  • • Streamlined ML sentiment analysis pipeline, improving prediction accuracy while reducing inference time
  • • Led front-end development implementing responsive UI/UX design that increased user engagement by 40% and reduced support tickets by 60%
  • • Achieved 95% code coverage through comprehensive testing suite, reducing production bugs by 75% and deployment rollbacks

Data Engineer

HealthVerity | Philadelphia, PA

2016-2017
  • • Led anonymized patient matching initiative processing billions of records across 100 data sources, achieving 94% match accuracy while maintaining HIPAA compliance
  • • Architected data ingestion pipeline in Java processing 2TB daily, reducing processing time from 24 hours to 4 hours through parallelization and optimization
  • • Developed internal analytics tools using Python/Django and pandas, enabling non-technical teams to query patient cohorts 10x faster than SQL-based approaches

Analytical Solutions Engineer

Jensen Hughes | West Chester, PA

2012-2016
  • • Led data-driven validation of nuclear plant safety procedures analyzing Level 1/2/3 PRA models, identifying optimizations and supporting license extensions for US nuclear facilities
  • • Developed MAAPDOSE radiation modeling software in C, replacing legacy FORTRAN system and reducing calculation time from hours to minutes
  • • Modernized 100K lines of FORTRAN code to modern C with cross-platform support (Windows/Linux), improving maintainability and enabling CI/CD adoption
  • • Published 3 EPRI technical reports on spent fuel pool risk assessment, establishing industry-standard methodologies adopted by US nuclear facilities
Technical Skills

Languages

PythonJavaScript/TypeScriptGoC/C++JavaScalaSwiftSQLRust

AI/ML

LangChainTensorFlowPyTorchHugging FacePandasScikit-learnPydantic AI

Cloud/Infrastructure

AWS ECSLambdaS3RDSGCPKubernetesDockerTerraformCI/CD

Web/Mobile

ReactReact NativeVue.jsDjangoFastAPINode.jsGraphQLREST APIs

Data/Analytics

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisSparkKafkaKinesisAirflowETL pipelines

Embedded/IoT

LinuxBeagleBoneRaspberry PiModbusMQTTEdge ComputingOTA Updates

Sustainability

LCAEPDScope III EmissionsISO 14001Carbon AccountingESG Reporting
Education

M.S. Nuclear Engineering - Health Physics

University of Missouri

B.S. Nuclear Engineering

University of Missouri - Rolla

Publications
  • Spent Fuel Pool Risk Assessment Integration Framework (Mark I and II BWRs) and Pilot Plant Application. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2013. 3002000498.
  • PWR Spent Fuel Pool Risk Assessment Integration Framework and Pilot Plant Application. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2014. 3002002691.
  • Technical Basis for Severe Accident Mitigating Strategies, Volume II. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2013. 3002005300.