Sam Latino

AI Engineer

Latinosammy2@gmail.com Panama City, FL github.com/slatino-dev samlatino.dev linkedin.com/in/samlatino

Summary

AI engineer who builds production agent systems, evaluation infrastructure, and self-hosted LLM stacks. Six open-source projects in 2026 covering agent security testing, MCP server implementation, privacy-routing gateways, BM25 retrieval, tool-call conformance, and eval CI. Enterprise software background: ranked 3rd in ADP's Southeast Division at 132% of quota, with direct experience translating technical complexity into decision-maker terms.

Skills

Languages: Rust, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Bash
Agent & LLM: LangGraph, LangChain, MCP (Model Context Protocol), vLLM, LiteLLM, structured output, tool-call parsing, prompt engineering
Retrieval: SQLite FTS5/BM25, tree-sitter repo-map, LanceDB, Pinecone, embedding models
Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Docker, axum, tokio, FastAPI, WebSocket, Linux
Data & Evals: DuckDB, PostgreSQL, criterion, insta snapshots, LangSmith

Experience

Business Consultant, PEO Solutions, Vensure Employer Solutions Panama City, FL · Dec 2025 - Present

Advise business owners on HR technology stack selection, building cost models and integration roadmaps that guide purchase decisions for multi-entity accounts

Account Executive, ADP Panama City, FL · Mar 2024 - Dec 2025

Ranked 3rd in the Southeast Division at 132% of quota across 21 months, closing $500K+ in annualized contracts across multi-client HCM deals
Reverse-engineered Salesforce internal APIs and shipped a Playwright and FastAPI automation layer that cut manual CRM operations by more than 4 hours per day

Operations Supervisor, Medline Industries Panama City, FL · Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

Supervised a 14-person distribution team and built automated reporting tools for medical supply logistics, cutting daily manual data entry by roughly 2 hours per shift

Open-Source Projects

redcell Python · Jan 2026 - Present

Agent robustness tester mapping to the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, with 146 deterministic probe cases and an in-repo sandboxed target at three hardening levels

longhaul Rust · Jan 2026 - Present

MCP server targeting the 2026-07-28 RC spec: stateless core, Tasks extension, InputRequired back-and-forth flows, statelessness proven by routing a task lifecycle across 2 server instances sharing only SQLite

patchbay Rust, axum · Jan 2026 - Present

Single-binary OpenAI-compatible gateway with privacy routing enforced at the type level: the type checker prevents a private request from selecting an external backend at compile time

millstone Rust, SQLite FTS5, tree-sitter · Jan 2026 - Present

Clean-room BM25 plus tree-sitter repo-map retrieval crate with a bench harness against tantivy and SQLite FTS5 to locate the lexical-versus-vector crossover on code corpora

callcheck Python, vLLM · Jan 2026 - Present

Tool-calling and structured-output conformance matrix for vLLM-served open models: 11-label failure taxonomy, k=3 resumable runner, in-repo mock server so CI can prove the scorer without live model access

eval-gate Python, GitHub Actions · Jan 2026 - Present

Regression-eval CI gate with embedding-free scorers, drift detection with a k-repeat noise floor, and sticky PR comments via a GitHub Actions integration

Agentic Execution Platform Python, LangGraph, DuckDB, WebSocket, Docker, AWS EC2

Orchestrated a 6-agent LangGraph system with one agent per stage: data ingestion, decision logic, execution, risk management, and settlement running on live financial markets
Streamed concurrent WebSocket feeds carrying 117 data points per tick into DuckDB, processing a corpus of 3.1M records for strategy backtesting

CRM Automation Python, Playwright, FastAPI

Enterprise CRM automation built on Playwright and FastAPI that reduced manual sales-ops time by more than 4 hours per rep per day, tested against a mock Salesforce API surface

Education

Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA · 2016 - 2020

Bachelor of Science, Biological Engineering · Distinguished Communicator Certified