Principal AI Engineer

Aric Camarata

Principal AI Engineer with 20+ years building distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and full-stack applications across defense, enterprise, and product companies. Deep expertise in multi-model AI routing, hybrid retrieval (RAG), federated GraphQL, and high-throughput Go backends. Founder of nSelf (self-hosted PaaS) and nClaw (multi-model AI router). Former Lead Developer at Northrop Grumman, TS-cleared (expired). Remote-only.

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Open to remote engagements

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Contact

Fairfax, VA (Remote)

Work Experience

20+ years of enterprise and startup development. Contract and full-time work spanning web platforms, backend systems, and open-source tooling.

GoTypeScriptRustPythonPHPMulti-model routingRAG pipelinespgvectorBGE-M3 rerankingRRF fusion

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My Projects

3 open-source packages and platforms published on npm and GitHub.

GoAIpgvectorRAGOllamaDockerHasuraGraphQLHetznerNext.jsTypeScript

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Open to new projects, opportunities, or just a conversation.