Bruce Davis · Charlotte, NC

I'm Bruce Davis. I design and build AI products — interfaces, agents, workflows, and automation.

Fifteen years shipping systems for Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Starbucks, Bank of America, and Veradigm. Now applying that to AI.

Work

Five projects, two lanes — AI engineering and UX engineering.

AI Engineer
Document Pipeline

A document pipeline built as a set of Claude tools — reads a doc, masks PII, validates the extraction with structured JSON outputs, escalates anything unusual to a human reviewer, tracks token cost. Built for regulated environments: PII masking, HITL review, and validation as the default, not the add-on. The Claude Engineer JD end to end.

Claude MCP Node JSON Schema Python
AI Engineer
MCP Server

Five custom Claude tools running on an MCP server I built to extend my own workflow — pulling ideas from a Notion vault, suggesting palettes, voice-checking copy, scaffolding project pages. Hands-on MCP server engineering, tool design, and Claude API integration.

MCP Claude SDK Notion API Zod Node
UX Engineer
AI Interface Patterns

Five working interface patterns for AI products: word-by-word streaming, model state indicators, low-context warnings, confidence flags, and error recovery. The loading states, empty states, and error states the UX Engineer JD asks for — built as live React/TypeScript, not Figma mockups.

React TypeScript Streaming State machines
UX Engineer
Motion Showcase

Five web motion techniques in one demo — split-text entrances, scroll-driven reveals, magnetic cursor hover, staggered grid reveals, kinetic type. Motion as a UX decision, not decoration. Built in GSAP, no framework.

GSAP Scroll-driven Canvas Vanilla JS
UX Engineer
Security UX

A security awareness training surface redesigned to borrow the visual language of the threat itself — HUD UI, scan lines, threat pulse, a playable "spot the phish" round. Motion, empty states, and behavioral interaction design applied to a compliance use case.

GSAP Web Audio Vanilla JS HUD UI
How I work with AI tools

Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, v0, and Figma Make are everyday tools for me, not experiments. This portfolio is a working example — I built and shipped it using Claude Code, iterating on copy and structure with the model in the loop. Microsoft Copilot is older muscle memory — the AI-assisted MVP workflow at Microsoft ran on it. The work I take to a pod tomorrow looks the same: prompt, prototype, ship, refine. Not a deck. Something clickable.

Background

Fifteen years building and shipping systems at Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Starbucks, Bank of America, and Veradigm. Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft (Python automation for Entra ID Governance and Non-Human Identity), Senior Security Engineer at Starbucks (PowerShell automation across 60+ domains), payment infrastructure for SWIFT/CHIPS/Fedwire at Wells Fargo, HIPAA-regulated IAM for 16,000+ users at Veradigm. Security, identity, and compliance as a feature, not a footnote — now pointed at AI.

Open to full-time, contract, and project work.