Tricia Ballad, AI Engineer and Technical Program Manager

Tricia Ballad

AI Engineer · Technical Program Manager

20+ years shipping software. Now building production AI systems and driving the programs around them.

Two Ways to Work Together

Track A

AI Engineer

Python FastAPI LLM Integration RAG Agentic AI SwiftUI Anthropic SDK

Track B

Technical Program Manager

Cross-functional Execution PMI-ACP AI Governance Stakeholder Alignment Release Readiness
20+ Years

Shipping software

4

Production AI apps

3

Published tech books

CS Degree

Bradley University

Featured Projects

Production

SignalForge

AI Lead Intelligence Platform

SignalForge AI Lead Intelligence Platform screenshot
FastAPI PostgreSQL SQLAlchemy 2.x Alembic Anthropic SDK HTMX

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In Progress

SignalCast

AI Job Briefing App

SignalCast AI Job Briefing App screenshot
FastAPI SQLite APScheduler Claude SDK HTMX

github.com/hexcodestudio →

"Not a career pivot. A convergence."

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