Product & Quality Leader · AI Engineering
Candace Hagood
AI engineering — building production-grade LLM products
Twenty years in pharma and quality management software, including 5+ years leading US and global implementation teams. I now design and ship AI products with the same discipline: clear requirements, real validation and a focus on the people using them.
20 yrs · pharma quality software
Global implementation leadership
Technical skills
Shown in the five shipped products below.
LLM product engineering
- ·Prompt and system design for production LLM features
- ·Multimodal AI: bill, photo and document reading
- ·Retrieval with embeddings to ground AI output
- ·AI evaluation, model cards and usage logging
- ·Human-in-the-loop review and AI content moderation
Full-stack delivery (AI-assisted)
- ·React + TypeScript web and mobile apps (Capacitor)
- ·Postgres data modeling with row-level access rules
- ·Serverless backend services and scheduled jobs
- ·Third-party APIs: Jira, Recall.ai, Google Maps, finance and government data
- ·Stripe subscriptions, email and auth
Quality & validation engineering
- ·21 CFR Part 11 e-signatures and immutable audit trails
- ·Traceability, risk (FMEA) and auto-generated UAT
- ·Automated end-to-end testing (Playwright)
- ·Security, GDPR and data-retention controls
Product & data
- ·Requirements and BABOK methodology
- ·Signal and anomaly design on live data
- ·Business and financial modeling
- ·UX for consumers, power users and regulated teams
Currently deepening
Selected work
05 / projects
Quorval
From meeting to signed, audit-ready requirements in one place.
An AI-native business analysis and delivery platform: meetings become BABOK-tagged requirements, traceability, risk, signed approvals and audit-ready evidence — in one validated workspace.
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Smart Energy Planner
Chores run in the cheapest hours without anyone memorizing a rate sheet.
"Watt's Next": an AI household scheduler that reads your electricity bill, builds your rate plan and moves the family's chores into the cheapest hours.
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Market Pulse Watch
Unusual market moves surface early, with a reason and a track record.
"Seismopulse": a real-time anomaly desk that combines volume spikes, block trades, earnings, IPOs, government contracts and global threat intelligence into one explained market read.
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AI Empire Builder
Players learn the real trade-offs of running an AI company by doing it.
A deep business simulation of running an AI company — products, AI stack, hiring, funding, board, M&A and world impact — with a custom AI coach explaining every decision.
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Geoscavenger
Endless, custom hunts anywhere, anytime — with zero content upkeep.
Real-world scavenger hunts created by AI in minutes — verified clue locations, photo and GPS answer checking, murder mysteries, lesson-plan hunts and local sponsor offers.
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Open to product, quality and AI product roles.
No formal AI degree — just two decades of making regulated software trustworthy, and five shipped AI products to show for it. Let's talk.