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Hi, I'm Brenda Manrique.

Senior Software Engineer

Building reliable systems across finance, analytics and applied AI.

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BackendFinancial SystemsApplied AI

Previously atMoody's AnalyticsJPMorganMoney.Net

Experience

The through-line is systems work: turning complicated financial and operational processes into software that can be trusted to run.

Independent Software Engineering & AI Projects

Aug 2025 — Present

Independent Software Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Following an international relocation and settling in Berlin, I began focusing more deeply on applied AI and independent software projects.

  • ●Designing and building small applied-AI systems using Python, FastAPI, Postgres/Supabase, retrieval, tool integrations, approval flows and observable deployments.
  • ●The chat agent on this site is in production: hybrid RAG, CI-gated evals, guardrails and tracing.
  • ●Projects: Portfolio Chat Agent, Family Agent, Natalia and Casicornio.
Read: the build log

Moody's Analytics

Apr 2023 — Aug 2025

Assistant Director — Software Engineer

Predictive Analytics · New York

Product engineering across EDF-X, Credit Analytics and Risk Scorecard, inside the Predictive Analytics team.

  • ●Implemented business and model-selection rules in Python, translating credit-domain requirements into production logic.
  • ●Built parts of the qualitative-overlay workflow as part of the Predictive Analytics engineering team.
  • ●Contributed to stateful API and workflow design for long-running analytics processes.
  • ●Worked primarily in Python, plus TypeScript and Angular in the product layer.
Read: credit analytics

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Oct 2018 — Aug 2022

Software Engineer — Senior Associate

Asset Management · New York

  • ●Led frontend engineering and architecture for a derivatives portfolio-management application built on Athena, JPMorgan's cross-asset risk platform.
  • ●Contributed across the backend and integration layers, working with Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and C#.
  • ●Contributed to decommissioning a legacy Trading, Risk and P&L platform for Fixed Income.
Read: financial systems

Money.Net

Jan 2016 — Jun 2018

Software Engineer

Financial Markets Terminal · Manhattan

  • ●Joined while the new markets terminal was being created: coded the initial frontend from scratch and contributed to parts of the backend.
  • ●ReactJS, Java 8, WebSockets, gRPC, microservices and Python REST APIs for real-time, high-volume market data.
  • ●Real-time messaging integrations including XMPP, and continued work as the architecture evolved.
Read: financial systems

Independent Projects & Professional Development

Jan 2014 — Aug 2015

Freelance and personal projects

New York / travel

  • ●Completed freelance, personal and learning projects in JavaScript and Python while preparing for graduate study and transitioning to New York.

DLYA Bantotal

Oct 2012 — May 2013

Technology Developer Consultant

Core Banking · Peru

  • ●Developed software with GeneXus to close gaps in a core-banking implementation.
  • ●Supported credit-risk business issues and analysed Oracle databases and queries.

Independent Projects

In development

Family Agent

Agent infrastructure for real household workflows across messaging, tools, memory and human approvals.

Tools · memory · approvals · WhatsApp

Experiment

Natalia

An independent product experiment exploring AI-assisted audio, automation and product UX.

Audio · automation · UX

After relocating to Berlin and spending my sabbatical building independent software and AI projects, I'm now looking to bring that experience into a strong engineering team.

Earlier Projects

Education

New York University · Tandon School of Engineering

2015–2018

MS, Management of Technology

Project management, data analytics, accounting/finance and technology entrepreneurship, with substantial graduate coursework at NYU Stern.

Universidad Católica de Santa María · Peru

2007–2013

BSc, Systems Engineering — Artificial Intelligence concentration

Algorithms/data structures, computer architecture, databases and software engineering. Thesis received honorable mention.

Skills & Stack

From financial systems to applied AI

Applied AI

RAG, tool calling, typed tool boundaries, human approval flows and evaluation.

Full-Stack Product Engineering

React/TypeScript frontends through APIs, data models and backend services.

Financial & Credit Systems

Risk, derivatives, market data, scorecards and portfolio workflows.

Distributed Workflows

Batching, concurrency, state, timeouts and asynchronous processing.

Cloud & Data

AWS, S3, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Docker, CI/CD and service integrations.

Domain rules in code

Translating requirements from risk and business specialists into reliable Python logic.

Applied AI

RAGTool callingMCPFastAPIHuman-in-the-loopEvalsObservabilitypgvector

Full-stack engineering

PythonTypeScriptReactJavaScriptJavaC#AngularREST APIsWebSocketsgRPC

Cloud & data

AWSS3PostgreSQLSupabaseOracleMySQLDockerCI/CDAsync processing

Domain depth

Credit analyticsProbability of defaultScorecardsDerivativesRisk / P&LReal-time market dataCore banking

Let us talk.

I'm interested in conversations about systems where correctness matters.

Berlin, Germany · remote

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