Diamond Ray Louden

Diamond Ray Louden

Multidisciplinary Builder

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I turn ideas into systems that work. 11+ years of experience across retail, healthcare, and tech with strengths in React, Next.js, and AI (artificial intelligence).

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About

I’m at my best when I’m close to the problem,  in the room where the question is still half-formed, not three slides into the readout.

Right now that means applied AI (artificial intelligence): shipping agents and automations, retrieval systems on AWS Bedrock (Amazon Web Services), n8n workflows that survive contact with reality, and the prompt-engineering rigor I picked up authoring 1,100+ training pairs for Amazon’s Project Neo. I work in Python and TypeScript, and I’m comfortable in the Solidity / web3 stack when the problem calls for it.

The breadth on the résumé isn’t padding, it’s pattern-matching across rooms. Retail floors, Accenture engagements (Macy’s taxonomy, Walgreens program design, accessibility scans), enterprise NLP (natural language processing) training, and BDR (business development representative) outbound. That mix is why I can sit with engineers, operators, and a CISO (chief information security officer) in the same week without translation tax.

I am also a certified audio engineer & DJ, that thread stays in the margins on purpose.

Portfolio influenced

Modeled lifetime value influenced by industry - how engagement spans sectors over time, not a claim of cash booked.

Total modeled portfolio value influenced across industries $10M

Projects

Codename Astra
Collaborator

Codename Astra

Astrology that remembers you: a chat-first AI (artificial intelligence) companion with live sky context, a journal, and social loops. Co-founder role focused on Web3 innovation, community, and go-to-market framing.

AI, Data & AutomationWeb3 / FinTechConsumerAIConsumerWeb3
Cosmic Week Tracker and Mood Guide
Creator

Cosmic Week Tracker and Mood Guide

PartyRock app that blends astronomy, numerology, and mood with moon phase data, Personal Day numbers, and transit-style insights.

AI, Data & AutomationConsumerPartyRockPythonNumerologyAstronomy
Pathfinder
Creator

Pathfinder

Conversational intake that learns what someone wants before anyone pitches. Handles hesitation with the P.U.S.H. framework, and every recommendation traces back to something the person said. No build step, no dependencies.

AI, Data & AutomationSales / GTMJavaScriptConversational UXSales Enablement
Prism Echo
Creator

Prism Echo

Browser-local portrait studio that grows color-separated after-images from one photo. Uploads stay on-device: no remote processing, no analytics.

Creative / MusicConsumerJavaScriptCanvasCreative
drl.bio
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drl.bio

Personal portfolio in React, Next.js, and TypeScript: applied AI (artificial intelligence) work, experience, and how I engage.

TechnologyReactNext.jsTypeScript
fancy_proj
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fancy_proj

Self-rescheduling commit bot. Increments a counter, commits, pushes, then picks a random time to run itself again tomorrow. Running since 2025-01-17.

AI, Data & AutomationPythonAutomationGit
Louden Desk
Creator

Louden Desk

Mission-control dashboard built from an Obsidian vault. Frozen snapshot, no backend: meetings, notes, and outreach as one glance plus deeper panels.

AI, Data & AutomationJavaScriptObsidianVisualization
GranolaOBS
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GranolaOBS

Syncs Granola meeting notes into Obsidian: official API (application programming interface) plus a local sync script, so transcripts land in the vault without a dashboard.

AI, Data & AutomationPythonObsidianAutomation
AI Security Scanner for Python
Creator

AI Security Scanner for Python

NextWork portfolio walkthrough documenting an AI-assisted (artificial intelligence) security audit flow for Python codebases.

Enterprise IT / IAMAI, Data & AutomationPythonSecurityAI
Building an AI Workflow
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Building an AI Workflow

Automations that connect conversational triggers, an AI (artificial intelligence) agent with tools, GPT-4o, and Google Calendar event creation.

AI, Data & Automationn8nAutomationChatGPTGoogle Calendar
Set Up a RAG Chatbot in Bedrock
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Set Up a RAG Chatbot in Bedrock

Serverless retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chat on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock with cited answers, backed by document storage on Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Lambda.

AI, Data & AutomationAWSBedrockRAGLambdaS3
Hyperlyz Demo
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Hyperlyz Demo

A demo showcasing music NFTs (non-fungible tokens) via the ZORA API (application programming interface), allowing users to mint their own audio files.

Web3 / FinTechCreative / MusicJavaScriptHTMLCSSweb3
Clausura
Creator

Clausura

A modular, open-source music platform designed to help creators share, publish, and remix content.

Web3 / FinTechCreative / Musicweb3TypeScriptJavaScriptShellCSS
Solana Flutter DeFi SDK
Collaborator

Solana Flutter DeFi SDK

Wormhole bridge integrated into an NFT (non-fungible token) dating mobile app, powered by the open-source Canoe-Flutter decentralized finance (DeFi) software development kit (SDK).

Web3 / FinTechDartKotlinJavaPythonCSS
Zorbz Data Visualizer
Creator

Zorbz Data Visualizer

A minimum viable product (MVP) data visualization tool using ZORB metadata and Zora's API (application programming interface) to abstract blockchain data into visuals.

Web3 / FinTechp5.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptweb3

Skills

LLM (Large Language Model) & Agent Systems

  • AI Agents(Artificial Intelligence)
  • MCPs(Model Context Protocol servers)
  • RAG(Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Automation Workflows
  • n8n
  • Multi-agent orchestration

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL(Structured Query Language)
  • Swift
  • Solidity

Identity & Access

  • Entra ID
  • Conditional Access
  • Intune
  • SSO(Single Sign-On)
  • SAML(Security Assertion Markup Language)
  • OAuth(Open Authorization)
  • IAM(Identity and Access Management)
  • PAM(Privileged Access Management)
  • Okta
  • Entitlement review

Governance & Risk

  • NIST CSF(National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework)
  • ISO 27001(International Organization for Standardization)
  • SOC 2(System and Organization Controls)
  • Zero Trust
  • Responsible AI(Artificial Intelligence)
  • HIPAA-aware architecture(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
  • WCAG(Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

Networking & Infrastructure

  • TCP/IP(Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
  • DNS(Domain Name System)
  • DHCP(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
  • VLANs(Virtual Local Area Networks)
  • Firewalls
  • Docker
  • Git

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) & Integration

  • REST APIs(Representational State Transfer)
  • Webhooks
  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Gmail API

Data & Evaluation

  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Tableau
  • Power BI(Business Intelligence)
  • Model evaluation
  • Technical Writing

Platforms

  • AWS(Amazon Web Services)
  • AWS Bedrock
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon S3(Simple Storage Service)
  • API Gateway
  • ServiceNow
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot

Development Environment

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • HTML(HyperText Markup Language)
  • CSS(Cascading Style Sheets)

Business & GTM (Go-To-Market)

  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • Apollo
  • Salesloft
  • Hubspot
  • Jira
  • Workfront

Delivery craft & Music

  • Obsidian PKM(Personal Knowledge Management)
  • Notion
  • Figma
  • Audio Engineering
  • Serato DJ Pro
  • Adobe Audition
  • rekordbox
  • FL Studio
  • Pro Tools

How I engage

Bring me in where discovery, identity risk, applied AI (artificial intelligence), or GTM (go-to-market) automation needs an owner - not a spectator.

Experience & Education

Jan 2026 - Present

Sales Engineer

Diverse ICT

Turns vague client IT (information technology) pain into scoped, sellable work. Maps identity and access risk (shadow IT, over-permissioned accounts, policy drift) into clear recommendations a managed service provider (MSP) can staff, price, and defend at audit.

Enterprise IT / IAMCybersecurity

Jan 2025 - Present

Independent Client Manager

Vino Louden Music · Chicago, IL

Gives a performing artist a business backbone: a steady content calendar, one link hub, and lightweight customer relationship management (CRM) tracking, so fan attention turns into booked shows instead of just likes.

Creative / Music

May 2018 - Present

Co-Founder · Applied AI (Artificial Intelligence) & Web3 Innovation

Quincy Labs · Chicago, IL

Builds the agent-driven products the lab ships, including a 10-agent outreach system that verifies every send before it goes out and an emergency-care app that gives first responders patient context in under 60 seconds. Bridges research, product framing, and go-to-market (GTM).

AI, Data & AutomationHealthcareWeb3 / FinTech

Feb 2026 - May 2026

Business Development Specialist

Firstbase

Opened conversations with IT (information technology) and operations leaders by reading hiring signals that meant a device-provisioning crunch was coming, and handled single sign-on (SSO) and security objections early, so most pipeline reached a solutions engineer already qualified.

Enterprise IT / IAMSaaS

Mar 2026

AWS AI Practitioner · Artificial Intelligence

Udacity

Hands-on fluency in Amazon Web Services (AWS) artificial intelligence (AI) services and responsible-use guardrails, so cloud machine learning (ML) recommendations come from real understanding, not vendor slides.

AI, Data & Automation

Dec 2025 - May 2026

Sales Development Fellowship

SV Academy · Chicago, IL

A selective 250+ hour bootcamp covering discovery calls, disciplined prospecting, outbound email, and staying steady under rejection. These are the reps that make technical selling sound human.

Sales / GTM
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Nov 2025 - Dec 2025

Certificate of Completion · Artificial Intelligence

Outskill

A compressed, hands-on artificial intelligence (AI) program covering core concepts and current tooling. It's the foundation under the agent and retrieval work in the Projects section.

AI, Data & Automation
🎓

Sep 2022 - Present

Certificate · Mastering web3

The University of Nicosia · Digital Currency/Blockchain and Digital Assets MOOC

Rigorous grounding in blockchain, digital currency, and digital assets through a massive open online course (MOOC). It's the background used to separate real Web3 utility from hype.

Web3 / FinTech

Jan 2025 - Nov 2025

Business Development Representative

re:WORK Training · Chicago, IL

Grew qualified discovery calls for a nonprofit tech-sales accelerator from about 10 to 15 a month by prioritizing hiring signals over stated interest. Also moved partner tracking into HubSpot so the pipeline no longer lived in one person's head.

Sales / GTMNonprofit

Dec 2023 - Jan 2025

Production Team Member · ADPodcast

Accenture · Chicago, IL

Kept a global internal podcast shipping on schedule by owning coordination between hosts, editors, and stakeholders. The result was fewer last-minute scrambles and cleaner episodes.

TechnologyMedia

Jan 2022 - Jan 2025

Business Analyst

Accenture · Chicago, IL

Turned stakeholder needs into future-state designs across retail and e-commerce work, including consolidating 10 regional report formats into one leadership dashboard for Mondelez that saved about 8 hours a week.

TechnologyRetail & eCommerce

Aug 2024 - Sep 2024

Commerce Analyst · QA Tester

Accenture · Kent (Canada) e-commerce program

Protected a storefront launch by testing search, checkout, and core shopping flows across staging environments, logging defects and confirming fixes with an offshore quality assurance (QA) team.

Retail & eCommerceTechnology

Jul 2024 - Sep 2024

Commerce Strategy Analyst

Accenture · Macy’s transformation

Cleaned up Macy's product taxonomy ahead of a major go-live by reconciling attributes and correcting AI-generated (artificial intelligence) tags, so shoppers could find products through search and filters.

Retail & eCommerce

Mar 2023 - Jul 2024

NLP (Natural Language Processing) Training Contributor

Amazon · Project Neo · via Accenture · Chicago, IL

Authored 1,100+ prompt and response pairs for an enterprise large language model (LLM) and helped standardize the quality rubric, so reviews from different annotators could be compared.

AI, Data & AutomationTechnology

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023

Accessibility Analyst

Accenture · Chicago, IL

Ran Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) scans across client brand sites and turned the results into prioritized fix lists, pointing teams at the pages where gaps affected the most users.

Technology

Feb 2023 - Mar 2023

Sales Support Practitioner

Accenture · Chicago, IL

Gave account teams a cleaner starting point by verifying existing client relationships and whether each client's systems were still on-premises or already in the cloud.

TechnologySales / GTM

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

Customer Preference Management (CPM)

Walgreens Boots Alliance · via Accenture · Chicago, IL

Protected customer consent data at a regulated pharmacy retailer by checking vendor onboarding against communication preferences and reconciling records where systems disagreed. Mistakes here mean regulatory exposure, not typos.

HealthcareRetail & eCommerce

Aug 2022 - Nov 2022

Phonon Developer

GridPlus · United States

Contributed to Phonon, a hardware-secured way to move digital assets peer to peer without on-chain fees, focused on practical, privacy-aware transfer flows.

Web3 / FinTech

Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Analyst

Maserati · via Accenture · Chicago, IL

Refocused Maserati's customer follow-up on buyers nearing lease end, after segmentation showed lease timing predicted response better than demographics, and aligned teams on one shared reporting view.

TechnologyAutomotive & Luxury CRM
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Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

DeFi MOOC · Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley

A massive open online course (MOOC) on how decentralized finance (DeFi) works under the hood: liquidity, lending protocols, and where it diverges from traditional settlement.

Web3 / FinTech

Sep 2019 - Mar 2020

Billing Agent

Luna Medical · Chicago, IL

Kept cash moving on medical product orders by owning billing accuracy end to end and clearing order or payer issues before they stalled payment.

Healthcare

Mar 2016 - Jan 2019

Operations Lead

Saks OFF 5TH · Chicago, IL

Led rotating departments through freight, replenishment, and online-order fulfillment, helping lift the store's local ranking and online sales against a sister store.

Retail & eCommerce

Feb 2015 - Mar 2016

Operations Specialist

Nordstrom Trunk Club · Chicago, IL

Put new fulfillment metrics to work in a digital-first operation, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) on the floor to sharpen repeat-sales strategy.

Retail & eCommerce
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2013 - 2015

Advanced Certificate · Dental Assisting / Assistant

City Colleges of Chicago · Wilbur Wright College

Clinical training in precision, sterilization, and patient care. It was early proof of doing well where details carry real consequences.

Healthcare

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Contact

Pick a topic and book 30 minutes - or email diamondlouden@gmail.com.