Ruslan Shulga

Work

1. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

   Vice President, Senior Software Engineer Lead – AI Platforms & Systems · Sep 2021 — Present

   Built the multi-agent workflows several thousand employees use firm-wide, on LangGraph with the Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK, and cut manual processing on the flagship workflow by about 55%. Built a model-agnostic AI gateway over AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and the Anthropic API that around 8 product teams route through, a hybrid retrieval pipeline that lifted precision roughly 35%, and the MCP servers that turned sprint-long AI features into a day or two. Lead a team of 7 across AI research, backend and platform.

2. Earth Designs

   Full Stack Web Developer · Apr 2020 — Sep 2021

   Ran the React and Next.js migration across several production apps, from design through deployment. Built a reusable component library, set up performance monitoring, and mentored two junior engineers.

3. PPS Capital

   Information Technology Manager · Jan 2018 — Apr 2020

   Ran IT operations and infrastructure strategy company-wide, and led internal web apps for analytics and reporting. Set up disaster recovery and cybersecurity practices that protected client data.

4. Earth Designs

   Technology Manager · Feb 2016 — Jan 2018

   Led API-driven web platforms and microservices, worked closely with the CEO on tech strategy, and set up the team's documentation and onboarding.

Case studies

• Multi-agent orchestration platform

  Production multi-agent workflows used by several thousand employees firm-wide. LangGraph orchestrates Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK. Each agent has persistent memory and calls internal tools. Irreversible actions pause for a human checkpoint.

• Hybrid retrieval pipeline

  Replaced an embedding-only RAG with a hybrid pipeline: dense plus sparse retrieval, cross-encoder re-ranking, indexed across Pinecone, Weaviate and pgvector depending on the use case. The pieces that mattered weren't the models. They were the eval harness and the index strategy per domain.

• Internal MCP servers

  Custom Model Context Protocol servers that connect Claude to internal APIs and databases. Features that used to take a sprint now take a day or two.

• Model-agnostic AI gateway

  An AI gateway on top of AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI, with direct Anthropic API access for newer Claude models. Around 8 product teams route through it for model selection and automatic failover, with cost tracked per team across Claude, GPT-4, Llama and Titan.

• Multimodal document pipelines

  Document and image processing pipelines on Claude Vision and GPT-4V, with Gemini added recently for cost reasons. Handles the first pass of compliance reviews that used to sit with analysts.

Projects

• Theseus

  This portfolio. An autonomous team of AI agents keeps rebuilding it, sprint by sprint, in public.

• view-json-react

  An accessible, dependency-free React JSON tree viewer with safe inspection, search and virtualization. Open source.

Stack

Python, TypeScript, LangGraph, LangChain, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, React, Next.js, Astro, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes

Education

1. Harvard University

   Certificate in Computer Science (CS50) · Jun 2020 — Dec 2020

2. Kyiv National Economic University

   Bachelor's and Master's, International Economics · Sep 2010 — Jul 2015

The ship