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Evan Appel

Applied AI Engineer

appelew@gmail.comgithub.com/EvanWAppellinkedin.com/in/evan-appel

Summary

Applied-AI engineer who builds with agents across the full stack. 15+ months working agentically through research, frontend, backend, and data; built seven non-trivial applications with agentic CLI harnesses (Claude Code primary). Led a team to a 3rd-place, C-suite-judged AI hackathon finish. Pairs agent fluency with the engineering discipline — TDD, CI/CD, validation — that makes agent-built software durable.

Skills

Agentic development: Claude Code (primary daily driver), Codex, Gemini CLI / Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, Qwen, NotebookLM; local inference via Ollama (Open WebUI over Tailscale)

Methodology: RECL (Requirements · Execute · Check · Loop); PRD.md / AGENTS.md / TASKS.md scaffolding; TDD with pytest as the verification layer

Languages: Python (production), SQL (production), TypeScript / JavaScript (working), Bash

Tooling: uv, ruff, ty, prek; Git / GitLab CI/CD; structured logging; Snowflake

Build surface: web apps, TUIs, data ingestion, external-API & local-data integration

Experience

Marketing Analyst·Credit One Bank
Feb 2023 – Present

De-facto AI/data engineer · Project lead · Python & Git authority for a 100-analyst organization

  • –Led a three-person team to 3rd place in the bank's first AI Hackathon (bank-wide, C-suite judges; beat Operations, Treasury, Risk) with an agent-built tool that turned hundreds of PDFs into infographics, dashboards, and decks — weeks of work compressed to ~1 hour.
  • –Apply agentic development daily; drive Python, Git, and agent-tool adoption across a 100-analyst org via weekly workshops (since Aug 2024) and a 5,000-line internal manual adopted org-wide.
  • –Engineering discipline that makes agent work durable: formal lead on a 30-project, ~25,000-line SAS-to-Python migration to Snowflake with standardized packaging, env-var secrets, and unattended execution.
  • –Built a pytest validation methodology (cached fixtures; CI without a live DB) and the team's first GitLab CI/CD pipeline — only engineer in the department shipping to DevOps production.
Data Analyst·Coin Cloud
Jan 2021 – Dec 2022
  • –Owned weekly cash-pickup route design for a cryptocurrency-ATM fleet from per-ATM fill data — balancing lost transactions against agent time, with direct financial and operational stakes.
  • –Acting backup manager; mentored junior analysts. SQL / Python / Tableau / Redshift.
Data Analyst, Engineering Dept.·Precision Opinion
Dec 2019 – Jan 2021
  • –Wrote SQL reporting for call-center management; owned PM and requirements gathering — the interface translating business stakeholders to the engineering team on a bespoke timekeeping software build.
Data Analyst → Data Scientist·Forms Direct
May 2012 – Oct 2019
  • –Self-directed path from marketing content writer to in-house data analyst over 7+ years (SQL, Python, Excel, Mode Analytics); managed a small remote team.

Education & Certifications

B.A. Journalism, Minor in Sociology·University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2007 – 2012
  • –Snowflake Hands-On Essentials — Data Warehousing & Data Lake
  • –PyCon US 2026 — incl. "Professional Python: From Vibes to Verification" (Matt Harrison)
  • –Codecademy Data Engineer path (in progress, 2026)