West River Data Systems
42.86°N · 72.67°W · Vermont
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AI & Data Engineering

West River
Data Systems

Independent AI and data engineering partner. I build pipelines, integrations, and data infrastructure for companies working with AI — from raw ingestion to production-ready systems. AWS-native. Claude-fluent. Self-hosting-capable.

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01 Services

AI Data Engineering

Build the pipelines and data infrastructure that AI products run on. Ingestion, transformation, storage, and delivery — designed for reliability from the start, not bolted on after.

Python AWS DuckDB ETL / ELT

Model Integration & Deployment

Connect language models to production systems. API integration, RAG pipelines, and evaluation frameworks. Fluent in Claude, open-source models, AWS Bedrock, and Azure.

Claude API Bedrock RAG Self-hosted

Data Architecture

Design the data layer underneath AI products. Event-driven systems, analytics pipelines, and structured data workflows that hold up under real production load.

PostgreSQL S3 Lambda Streaming
02 Products
SQLBlitz Native macOS

Query CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Excel files with SQL. Built for data engineers who work locally.

SQL DuckDB Swift
Sift Native macOS

Local-first eDiscovery triage for small law firms. Full-text search, AI-assisted review, and Concordance DAT export — no cloud required.

Swift FTS5 Apple ML
SoundProof Legal Native macOS

Legal transcription and OCR in a single app. Transcribe depositions, hearings, and interviews with local processing and speaker identification.

Swift Whisper OCR
03 Background
Military 7 years USAF — satellite communications systems. 2 years Navy contractor.
Enterprise 3 years at UnitedLex building ML pipelines and AI document review systems for Fortune 500 legal teams.
Infrastructure TB-scale data pipelines, NER/NLP systems, cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Terraform, Docker, orchestration.
Clearance Former Secret clearance (USAF). SDVOSB certified. SAM.gov registered.