Finn Borge

Brooklyn, New York

Curious, self-motivated technical expert and problem-solver especially interested in human-centric design, verifiability, high-availability systems, machine learning, generative language models, philosophy, and community-derived consensus.

About

Self-directed and highly collaborative, with deep investment in teams and a relentless commitment to delivering impactful solutions. My recent work spans AI systems engineering, data platform architecture, and LLM application development—building resilient, scalable solutions that bridge cutting-edge technology with practical business applications.

Experience

2019 — 2025

Contract Work

Independent consultant specializing in AI systems, data engineering, and legal technology.

AI Systems Engineer · Talys Health

Incubating at MIT's Delta V

  • Architected and implemented client-specific semantic layer and modular, composable query framework for health system supply chain optimization and signal detection
  • Rehabilitated vibe-coded prototype to resilient, HIPAA compliant data platform powering contracts with 4 health systems

Senior Staff Data Engineer · MANTL

Acquired by Alkami

  • Led LLM-Harness tuning and development for 100+ person engineering team
  • Senior staff data engineer responsible for rearchitecting and implementing full revitalization of critical B2B2C data workflows
  • Independently designed, implemented, and maintained ecosystem responsible for daily ETLs processing thousands of client personal documents with full SOC2 security compliance, rehabilitated from daily SEV-2 outages to 99.9% reliability

Implementation Lead · Cooley LLP

  • Implementation lead for document generation application powering thousands of contracts annually
  • Strategized and led development of a client-facing platform managing public document disclosures for Fortune 100 companies
  • Developed and refined data platform for daily reference use by top partners and attorneys

RAG Platform Engineer · ReachRX

  • Led efforts to improve RAG-based LLM chat system providing medical and pharmaceutical data to health practitioners with zero tolerance for hallucinations
  • Architected and implemented RAG evaluation pipeline to enable experimentation around chunking mechanisms, prompt development, and retrieval ranking

2016 — 2019

Software Developer → Product Manager

Slice

  • Founding engineer, helped scale original 3-man engineering organization to 50+ at a 500+ headcount tech company built to help small independent pizzerias compete with large multinational food companies
  • Solo-developed integration with both Facebook and Google as a launch partner for Facebook Marketplace's & Google MyBusiness's food ordering integrations
  • Implemented novel fraud detection framework and system powering millions of transactions annually for thousands of independent small businesses
  • Conceived of, planned, and successfully implemented MVP in-app order status tracking reducing overall CS volume by over 15% with a 2-person development team

Projects & Volunteer Work

Prospr

Employee benefits platform for remote-first companies to offer lifestyle benefits; like nutritionists, exercise routines, and subject-matter classes to a client company's employees.

Parentis

Modern communication platform connecting young parents to Early Childhood Education professionals to help normalize and support the parenting journey.

We Tell Our Selves

Non-profit project funded by the Melinda Gates foundation utilizing technology described in provisional patent RDRP-001-US-PPA1 "Determining Impact of Content on an Audience"—utilization of sociological research, machine learning, and direct feedback workflows to derive the strength of a specific argumentation style in driving a content consumer to action.

Doggo

Non-QM mortgage lending platform for non-native English speakers.

Marcy Labs School & Independent Mentorship

Supported multiple students across the last 7 years helping guide their growth from new-to-code all the way to full-time software engineer.

Education

B.A. Political Philosophy

Kenyon College, Ohio, USA · 2009–2012

Technologies & Interests

Languages

Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, C# & .NET

Technologies

Git, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, LangChain, LLMs, Vector Storage

Other

Data structures and algorithms, machine learning, edge caching

Human Languages

Conversationally fluent in Mandarin (~HSK 3)

Interests

Cooking: bagels, dumplings, lasagna, swedish meatballs

Fermentation: cheese, beer, yogurt, bread, vinegar

Archery, metalworking, watercolor, mycology

Utilities

Seating

Drag-and-drop seating chart for events. Tag guests with dietary needs, group by relationship with color coding, and track table capacity.

Created as a single HTML file while planning our wedding.