Maurice Van Der Merwe

Duties & Accomplishments

• Led a team of 3 developers and 1 project manager delivering the Nova Res medical AI platform
• Built FastAPI backend with React frontend integrating Azure OpenAI, LangChain, and Neo4j knowledge graphs
• Developed PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov data services with near real-time updates
• Designed modular microservices architecture for rapid iteration and HIPAA readiness
• Architected 11-agent clinical AI architecture with 4 core agents live (Coordinator, Retriever, Generator, Verifier) and 7 specialized medical agents in development (Drug Safety, Clinical Reasoning, Knowledge Graph, Guideline, Patient Context, Scorer, Safety Gate)
• Architected and operated a containerized four-stage mass-ingestion pipeline (parser, processor, embedding, indexer) on Azure Container Apps
• Implemented KEDA event-driven autoscaling on Blob/Event Hub backlog with consumer-group isolation and throughput-oriented scaling profiles
• Built PubMedQA evaluation pipelines for side-by-side legacy vs agentic benchmarking with deterministic sampling, row-level telemetry, and reproducible outputs
• Implemented dataset quality gates and contract validation harnesses to ensure leak-resistant evaluation inputs and benchmark artifact integrity

Duties & Accomplishments

• Independent consultancy delivering 30+ engagements across retail, real estate, IoT, logistics, and manufacturing
• Designed and built PRISM (Alpha — in active internal use), an agentic SDLC platform with multi-agent orchestration, interchangeable LLM backends (GPT, Claude, Gemini), context engineering, and human-in-the-loop workflow control
• Implemented streaming LLM orchestration loops with model-agnostic provider abstraction, tool execution, lifecycle state tracking, and recovery-aware workflow control
• Built checkpoint-driven human-in-the-loop controls with idempotent responses and reconnect-safe pending checkpoint recovery
• Delivered execution and verification APIs that discover plans, launch agents, persist verification snapshots, and enforce approval gates
• Designed hardware/software stack for IoT home automation and energy monitoring platform

Duties & Accomplishments

• Conducted 13 stakeholder interviews across 8 departments in a 5-day assessment window
• Assessed and reconciled 24 in-scope CSF outcomes using an evidence-weighted scoring model
• Produced client-ready deliverables including detailed assessment report, presentation guide, and top critical findings
• Prepared and delivered executive presentation of assessment findings and remediation roadmap to C-level leadership
• Built validation and scope-filter workflows to separate in-scope vs out-of-scope outcomes and reduce scoring drift

Duties & Accomplishments

• Designed architecture for security, IPv6 dual-stack migration, and application layers for the custom Palantir Foundry platform within a 16-person platform engineering team
• Architected ServiceNow and Palantir Foundry integration platforms with microservices patterns, API routing, role-based controls, and real-time synchronization
• Designed and migrated enterprise IPv6 dual-stack transformation across Foundry domains, including ALB/NLB traffic paths, Route53 DNS (A/AAAA), NAT64, and PrivateLink connectivity
• Defined and executed IPv4 reduction strategy across multiple AWS accounts, including reclaim analysis, migration sequencing, and validation runbooks
• Architected AWS firewall and security group modernization aligned to Well-Architected SEC06 principles with defense-in-depth controls
• Integrated Wiz cloud security capabilities into security governance workflows to strengthen posture visibility and remediation tracking
• Established CI/CD standards, automated testing gates, and observability practices for reliable multi-environment platform delivery
• Led cloud cost optimization — storage lifecycle automation, data pipeline improvements, EC2 right-sizing, server-to-serverless migration, and unused asset cleanup