Neil Peaslee Jr.

npeaslee@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/neil-peaslee-12b314291

Summary|Full-stack engineer with 25+ years delivering production software, now focused on agentic AI development and developer enablement. Led the re-architecture of a failing BI reporting platform (30-minute report timeouts eliminated), served as tech lead and Scrum master replacing a 15-year-old reservation system, and drove configuration-management and version-control adoption across resistant teams. Hands-on with Claude Code, MCP, smolagents, and Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini APIs to guide teams in responsible adoption of AI-assisted development.

Skills

Agentic AI
Claude Code, MCP, smolagents, LangChain, LangGraph, structured output
AI Platforms
Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, Hugging Face, pgvector, LangFuse/LangSmith
Languages & Frontend
JavaScript, Python, PHP, Perl, C, C++, Vue.js, React, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind
Backend & APIs
FastAPI, Node.js, Symfony, Silex, RESTful APIs, JSON, XML
Databases & SQL
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Supabase; advanced SQL, data modeling
Cloud & Infra
AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, Fargate GPU), Docker, NGINX, Linux
DevOps & CI/CD
Git, GitHub Actions (CI/CD as code), Terraform, npm, Composer, Webpack
Testing & Security
pytest, PHPUnit, Selenium, Postman, TDD; SSL/TLS (Let's Encrypt), LDAP, JWT
Methodology
Agile, Scrum, Configuration Management, Jira, Confluence

Experience

Independent AI & Web Developer – Self-Directed January 2021 – Present
AI Application Developer
  • Built a multi-speaker diarization and personal AI toolkit (public repo: peaslee-org/chat) using Docker, Pyannote, SpeechBrain, AWS Fargate GPU, Amazon Transcribe, and pgvector/embeddings
  • Developed hands-on expertise with agentic AI tooling: Claude Code, MCP, smolagents, and Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini APIs; applied structured output, function-calling, and prompt engineering patterns
  • Completed the Hugging Face Agent AI Course (2025) and Anthropic's Claude Code in Action (2025, credential ID: rw763q9qtjc3); completed LangChain Academy coursework in agent observability and evaluations
VIP Auto, Inc. 2016 – 2021
Web Application Developer
  • Re-architected a business-intelligence reporting platform serving the CEO, president, and department heads across all 56 locations, eliminating 30-minute report failures caused by a Big-O memory defect by replacing it with an async Vue SPA querying a RESTful PHP/Silex API
  • Built a service-provider verification application deployed across all 56 stores, pushing line-item invoice validation to store level and surfacing vendor data errors on invoices previously paid unchecked
  • Built an equipment and maintenance-tracking system across all 56 stores (PHP, MySQL, Vue/jQuery, Bootstrap), replacing spreadsheets and enabling automated safety-critical maintenance reminders for vehicle lifts
  • Standardized HTTPS/SSL (Let's Encrypt) across all internal web applications (reachable from all 56 stores, corporate, and VPN) so employees were never trained to click past security warnings
  • Integrated a legacy inventory-management system to enable the sales team to join a wholesale tire network
Auto Europe LLC August 2005 – January 2016
Web Developer / Tech Lead
  • Served as tech lead and architect on the team that designed and built the web application and RESTful API services replacing a 15-year-old call-center reservation system (car, air, and hotel bookings) spanning all brands and countries; system adopted by ~50–100 call-center agents
  • Designed and built a language/localization management system supporting 40 domains, 30 languages, and ~12 brands, collapsing ~50 database tables to under a dozen, enabling marketing to add new languages and SEO landing pages entirely self-service with zero DBA tickets
  • Drove adoption of configuration management, version control, and Agile best practices in an environment resistant to process improvement; was the first on the team to put version control into regular practice and led the team migration to distributed version control
SMTnet.com June 1999 – July 2004
Lead Developer
  • Grew into the Lead Developer role over a 5-year tenure building web applications for the electronics manufacturing industry; built a capital-equipment marketplace and a ColdFusion discussion forum

Education

University of Southern Maine – BS, Computer Science 2000