Isaiah McNealy
Isaiah McNealy
Software Engineer Houston, TX · isaiahmcnealy.com · LinkedIn
Hi! I'm Isaiah. I am a software engineer who loves learning new things and finding ways to solve everyday problems with technology. When I'm not working or studying can probably be found exploring a new city, hiking up some mountain, coaching highschool wrestling, reading, or watching sports.
I am currently working on building an agentic fraud detection platform that lets multiple AI models including Claude, Gemini, and open-source ones, tackle the same financial-risk investigations through a shared set of tools. It's been a great way to learn how agentic systems behave in practice and where commercial APIs are worth it versus when open-source alternatives win.
Experience
Goldman Sachs — Software Engineer · 2025–Present AWS (EC2, ECS) · Java · GitLab CI/CD
Eli Lilly — Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead · 2021–2025 Four years experience building dev tools, ios and android applications, and leading the development of internal libraries.
Rice University — M.S. Computer Science, Machine Learning · Expected Spring 2027
Florida A&M University — B.S. Computer Science
Featured Projects
🔍 financial-risk-agentic-platform
An agentic platform enabling AI assistants to interact with financial risk systems through a structured, auditable interface.
Python MCP FastAPI Docker AWS ECS
🛡️ fraud-micro-service
A machine learning microservice for real-time transaction fraud detection. Built around production MLOps patterns: XGBoost scoring engine, Kafka event streaming, MLflow experiment tracking, and a FastAPI prediction layer.
Python XGBoost Apache Kafka MLflow FastAPI Docker
🌐 isaiahmcnealy.com
Personal portfolio and professional landing page. Full-stack Next.js application deployed on AWS Amplify with a DynamoDB backend, S3 asset storage, and Cognito authentication.
Next.js AWS Amplify DynamoDB S3 Cognito
Tech Stack
Languages Python · Java · SQL · TypeScript
ML & Data scikit-learn · XGBoost · MLflow · Apache Kafka · FastAPI · NumPy · pandas
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, Amplify, DynamoDB, S3, Cognito) · Docker · GitLab CI/CD
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