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Alain Morris

Backend & Applied AI Engineer

Profile

Product-minded backend engineer with production and research experience across APIs, event-driven systems, robotics, simulation, data pipelines, and applied AI. Strongest in Python backend development, with end-to-end range across TypeScript interfaces, cloud delivery, observability, and operational workflows.

Technical skills

Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL

Applied AI & data: LLM systems, RAG, contextual bandits, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Pandas, MLflow, simulation

Delivery: AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, observability, React, Next.js, TypeScript

Experience

Software Engineer · Adaviv

Remote · Feb 2022–Feb 2024
  • Reduced backend latency by approximately 30% through query, caching, and service-path improvements.
  • Shipped production API and data-workflow changes across Python services and AWS infrastructure.
  • Worked directly with product and operational constraints where reliability mattered more than demos.

Graduate Researcher — Smart Mobility, Simulation & Algorithms · Korea National University of Transportation

South Korea · Feb 2024–2026
  • Ran 900 demand-responsive-transit simulations across 45 scenario variants.
  • Analyzed 10,078 KORAIL failure records for predictive-maintenance research.
  • Built experiment pipelines that connected scenario configuration, policy evaluation, metrics, and reporting.

Selected engineering work

Healthbridge · Backend engineer

Python · FastAPI · FHIR R4 · Redpanda · MongoDB

Public synthetic-data ingestion reference with OIDC/JWT authorization, async validation, idempotent persistence, retries, dead-letter handling, observability, tests, and CI.

Vireo Properties · Founder and lead engineer

Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres · Drizzle · GIS

Live Belize property discovery and operations platform with real inventory, buyer qualification, CRM workflows, parcel geometry, provenance boundaries, and consent-aware measurement.

Mayawalk + KORAIL · Product engineer and researcher

React Native · Firebase · Python · Simulation

Digitized tour-operator workflows with an approximately 40% reduction in reported accounting errors; separately analyzed 10,078 railway failures across 279 stations.

Education & certification

Master of Engineering, IT & Energy Convergence · Korea National University of Transportation · 2024–2026

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology — Magna Cum Laude · University of Belize · 2018–2022

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · Amazon Web Services