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Alain Morris

Backend & Applied AI Engineer

Summary

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 & Solution Architect · Adaviv (MIT Spinoff)

Remote · Feb 2022–Feb 2024
  • Built Flask backend control systems for Mantis, a field-deployed crop-scanning robot using RGB and thermal imaging.
  • Implemented state-driven camera workflows, image capture, streaming, structured logging, error handling, and remote recovery paths.
  • Integrated AWS services for media and production operations; optimized backend workflows to reduce latency by approximately 30%.

Graduate Researcher · Korea National University of Transportation

South Korea · Feb 2024–2026
  • Designed a reproducible Demand Responsive Transit platform connecting scenario configuration, simulation, policy selection, passenger response, metrics, and MLflow.
  • Completed 900 simulation runs across 45 scenario variants; verified results showed learning policies improving wait-time and service-rate direction over a greedy baseline.
  • Built event-driven lifecycles, dispatch-policy interfaces, experiment orchestration, and analysis pipelines.

Selected engineering work

Healthbridge · Backend Engineer

Python · FastAPI · FHIR R4 · Redpanda · MongoDB

Built a public synthetic-data ingestion reference with OIDC/JWT authorization, asynchronous validation, idempotent persistence, retries, dead-letter handling, observability, tests, and CI.

Vireo Properties · Founder and Lead Engineer

Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres · Drizzle · GIS

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

Mayawalk Staff Management · Full-Stack Engineer

React Native · Firebase · TypeScript

Digitized scheduling, employee check-in, shifts, and payroll support for a Belize tour operator, reducing reported accounting errors by approximately 40%.

KORAIL Reliability Research · Researcher

Python · Reliability Analysis · Monte Carlo Simulation

Normalized and analyzed 10,078 platform screen door failures across 279 stations and 18 lines to compare maintenance strategies.

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