Erick Canal

Erick Canal

Backend and distributed systems engineer: adtech real-time bidding, OTT streaming, and AI infrastructure. 14+ years across enterprise, satellite, streaming, and advertising systems.

Selected work

Software Engineer (contract), Eric K. Enterprises LLC

2022 to present

  • AI infrastructure: built an audit and verification layer for an AI agent gateway, and root-caused agent tool-call behavior from its records.
  • Kixie (2024 to 2025): design and code review on React and TypeScript applications; drove test-driven development; worked on AWS serverless services (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3) with Datadog and CloudWatch; validated billing flows with SQL.
  • Apple TV+ via TCS (2022 to 2023): contributed to the Apple TV+ Windows app launch; built Python diagnostic tooling for HLS streaming and root-caused codec-level playback issues.

Software Engineer, DIRECTV / AT&T / Xandr

2014 to 2022

  • Worked on a real-time bidding platform of 30+ microservices built on Kafka, Couchbase, and OpenRTB; root-caused cross-service failures with Splunk and packet capture.
  • Root-caused ad delivery failures in addressable TV advertising and integrated configuration fixes across networks.
  • Platform work: Kubernetes reliability fixes, Prometheus instrumentation, Splunk dashboards, Jenkins CI/CD, and Maven modernization across services.
  • Satellite ground infrastructure: C++ services on Linux, TCP/IP troubleshooting, and data pipelines integrating Java and C++ environments.

Software Engineer, Cayuse Technologies

2011 to 2014

  • Backend services and data validation tooling for enterprise IVR platforms.

Projects

Featured

Financial GPT Agent

An educational stock analysis tool that keeps the decision out of the language model. A pure, rule-based evaluator produces the signal from technical indicators, and the LLM only writes the explanation, so the same inputs always give the same result.

Layered design (data, decision, narrative, UI), multi-provider LLM fallback, 16 tests, and CI across Python 3.10 to 3.12.

Python, pandas, Streamlit, LangChain (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral), pytest, GitHub Actions

For learning only. Not financial advice.

Agent audit and governance

A tamper-evident audit trail for an AI agent gateway: per-tenant hash chains with scheduled integrity verification and alerting. Running continuously on self-hosted hardware since August 2026.

TypeScript, Python, SQLite, Vitest

Private repository. Happy to walk through it in an interview.

Second Brain

A goal and task execution system built around the Buffett 5/25 rule, with a CLI, a REST API, and a React UI. Claude ranks open work and links tasks to goals across planning horizons.

Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Anthropic API

Private repository. Happy to walk through it in an interview.

Contact

Email: erick@erickcanal.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erickcanal
GitHub: github.com/ErickCanal