https://brendamanrique.com Case studies on agentic AI, retrieval, evaluation and financial systems engineering — by Brenda Manrique. en Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/story https://brendamanrique.com/story Why she left Moody's in 2025, the international move to Berlin, and the applied-AI work she does now. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/early-projects https://brendamanrique.com/early-projects A thesis with honorable mention, the Aquolity MVP, a Project Tango prototype and a Solana NFT marketplace prototype. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/fractal-dimension https://brendamanrique.com/fractal-dimension Fractal dimension as a feature for distinguishing skin-lesion images. Research, not a clinical diagnostic system. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/invip-accessibility-ai https://brendamanrique.com/invip-accessibility-ai A U.S.-incorporated accessibility startup with a working prototype: computer vision, machine learning and Amazon Alexa voice. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/en/casicornio https://brendamanrique.com/en/casicornio Building an independent Spanish-language publication on startups, technology and AI. First issues in preparation. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/portfolio-chat-agent https://brendamanrique.com/portfolio-chat-agent Hybrid retrieval over the portfolio, guardrails, online scoring and CI-gated evals, so an LLM cannot make up my experience. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/applied-ai https://brendamanrique.com/applied-ai Python and FastAPI services with retrieval, typed tool boundaries, approval flows and observable deployments. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/financial-systems https://brendamanrique.com/financial-systems Leading frontend engineering on Athena at JPMorgan, and helping build the Money.Net markets terminal from the ground up. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://brendamanrique.com/moodys-credit-intelligence https://brendamanrique.com/moodys-credit-intelligence Predictive Analytics: model-selection rules in Python, qualitative overlays and stateful API design for long-running analytics. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT