AI / MLIn Development
Recipe SaaS
AI-powered recipe generator using RAG, vector embeddings, and Claude. FastAPI backend with Postgres + pgvector, Voyage AI embeddings, and Anthropic API integration.
PythonFastAPIAnthropic APIpgvectorDocker
Nicholas Swanger
Data & AI Engineer
Building AI systems on production data infrastructure.
About
My natural curiosity brought me to software development after my formal education ended. A finance major turned self-taught developer, I started leveraging AI as an efficiency multiplier long before I had a true understanding of it. When AI advancements started to encroach on traditional BI work, I had a choice: move toward the business side or lean into the technology. I leaned in.
What surprised me the most was the creative unlock. It shifted my focus from asking “how do I write this” to thinking about “what could this be,” opening up space to explore problems I genuinely care about. This also let me apply an interest in psychology I didn't expect to find useful here: change always causes friction and resistance, and designing something that will actually be adopted is a different problem than figuring out whether it programmatically works.
Eagle ScoutGilman Scholar
Projects
AI / MLIn Development
Workout Tracker
Native mobile workout tracker built with React Native and Expo. SQLite for local persistence. On-device AI for personalized training recommendations is the next planned milestone.
React NativeExpoTypeScriptSQLite
Career
BI Developer II, Data Products & Analytics
Sep 2024 – PresentCoca-Cola Consolidated Inc. — Charlotte, NC
- Designing an ML-powered territory optimization system using k-means seeding and constraint-based rebalancing, with active development toward a conversational agent that lets the sales team query territories and refine pipeline logic interactively.
- Built a modular Python authentication library for Microsoft Graph using Azure app registrations and Key Vault for credential management, enabling automated email ETL, Outlook/Teams messaging, and Active Directory group management for the BI team.
- Led Snowflake cost optimization initiative spanning usage monitoring, query optimization, and warehouse sizing, reducing team compute costs 40% and saving $100K annually.
Business Systems Analyst
Jan 2023 – Sep 2024TransTech Energy — Charlotte, NC
- Designed and implemented Power BI service architecture including workspace strategy, app deployment model, and access governance, establishing a scalable and secure analytics platform across multiple business units.
- Owned full project lifecycle for analytics solutions including requirements gathering, data modeling, report building, UAT, and documentation, leveraging data from ERP, CRM, CPM, and project management systems.
Education
BBA: Finance · Summa Cum LaudeDec 2023
University of North Florida
Certificate: International BusinessJul 2021
Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Skills
AI & ML
LLM applicationsAgentic workflowsRAG pipelinesML optimizationGitHub CopilotClaude Code
Data Platforms
SnowflakeMicrosoft Fabric / Foundry
Dev Practices
Modular architectureGitCI/CDDevOps pipelines
BI & Reporting
TableauPower BISigmaStreamlit
Get in touch
Open to AI engineering roles, project collaborations, and interesting conversations.