Brenda Manrique
Senior Software Engineer · Full-stack, financial systems, applied AI
Independent projects since August 2025 · open to new roles
Understand a complicated process well enough to turn it into software.
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Financial systems, leaving Moody's in 2025, and the work now
A senior software engineer. Her career has moved through several surfaces — research, accessibility, financial markets, risk and credit systems, and now applied AI — but the work has stayed consistent: understand a complicated process well enough to turn it into software.
She started with AI-focused systems engineering and fractal research in Peru. Then came accessibility AI at NYU, a real-time market terminal at Money.Net, derivatives portfolios and risk platforms at JPMorgan, and credit analytics at Moody's Analytics.
In August 2025 she left Moody's, relocated internationally, and settled in Berlin. Since then she has been building applied-AI systems, this portfolio's agent, and Casicornio. Since March 2026 those projects have focused on deploying and operating small AI systems, still in the prototype stage. She is also looking for her next software-engineering role.
Open to
I'm looking for my next senior software engineering or applied-AI role, and I'm interested in conversations about systems where correctness matters.
Experience
Independent Software Engineer
Independent Software Engineering & AI Projects — Prototypes and validation, Berlin
Assistant Director — Software Engineer
Moody's Analytics — Predictive Analytics, New York
Software Engineer — Senior Associate
JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Asset Management · derivatives and risk, New York
Software Engineer
Money.Net — Financial markets terminal, Manhattan
Freelance and personal projects
Independent Projects & Professional Development — New York / travel
Technology Developer Consultant
DLYA Bantotal — Core banking, Peru
Projects and case studies
Moody's Analytics
Credit rules in Python, qualitative overlays and stateful APIs
Financial systems
JPMorgan and Money.Net: derivatives, risk and real-time market data
Applied AI
The build log: architecture, deployment and tool boundaries
Portfolio chat agent
The chat on this site: hybrid RAG, evals, guardrails and observability
Casicornio
A Spanish-language publication on startups, technology and AI
Invip
AI for visual accessibility, NYU 2015–2018 (CTO and co-founder)
Fractal dimension
2010 research — not a clinical diagnostic system
Early projects
Thesis, Aquolity and prototypes
Skills
Applied AI
Full-stack engineering
Cloud & data
Domain depth
Education
- New York University, Tandon School of Engineering — MS, Management of Technology (2015–2018). Project management, data analytics, accounting/finance and technology entrepreneurship, with substantial graduate coursework at NYU Stern.
- Universidad Católica de Santa María, Peru — BSc, Systems Engineering with an Artificial Intelligence concentration (2007–2013). Thesis received honorable mention.
Languages
- English — fluent, works in it daily
- Spanish — fluent, the language of Casicornio
- German — A2, still learning; I do not work in German
Outside the job titles
Volunteering: AIESEC team leadership, Rotary social projects, volunteering to help organise talks and shows at the World Science Festival, and volunteering at an Open Source Conference at the United Nations. Secondary to the engineering work, but it explains why I'm comfortable moving between technical and human systems.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Brenda Manrique?
Brenda Manrique is a senior software engineer based in Berlin and working remotely. She was Assistant Director — Software Engineer at Moody's Analytics (2023–2025), Software Engineer Senior Associate at JPMorgan Asset Management (2018–2022) and Software Engineer at Money.Net (2016–2018). Before that she did freelance and personal projects in New York, and core banking work in Peru with DLYA Bantotal. She holds an MS in Management of Technology from NYU Tandon and a BSc in Systems Engineering with an Artificial Intelligence concentration from Universidad Católica de Santa María.
What is she building now?
Small applied-AI systems in Python and FastAPI, with retrieval, tool calling, human approval flows and observable deployments; this portfolio's chat agent, which is in production; and Casicornio, an independent Spanish-language publication on startups, technology and AI. These are her own projects, mostly in the prototype stage.
Does she offer consulting services?
No. Her applied-AI projects are her own work, not a business: she does not offer services or take on clients through this site. What exists today is prototypes and deployed infrastructure, plus this site's chat agent, which is in production.
How do I contact her?
Through the LinkedIn and GitHub links in the contact section. No personal email is published on this site, and the chat assistant does not hand out contact details beyond those links.