Manuel Parra

Hands-on lead software engineer with 6+ years building backend, data, financial, and applied AI systems. Current work covers bilingual audited-statement extraction, multi-tenant construction reporting with source evidence, OCR and extraction evaluation pipelines, and self-hosted model serving. Financial-document extraction improved from 34% to 94% on bilingual audited filings. A 504-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model served across eight Blackwell GPUs with cold prompts up to 240,000 tokens. Earlier work includes Rust cryptographic systems, regulated financial and on-chain integrations, and real-time sports backends. Ownership spans architecture, implementation, evaluation, and production, with most time still spent writing code. Open to senior or lead roles in applied AI, AI systems, backend platforms, and forward-deployed engineering. Remote from UTC-4; English and Spanish.