Jariel Balberona Staff-Level AI-Native Software Engineer

Professional evidence

DataGPT AI

Product engineering for AI-assisted analytics interfaces where query state, results, and failure behavior had to remain understandable.

May 2025 - Nov 2025 Software Engineer | Part-time contract React / TypeScript / Data visualization / Analytics UX
  • Built and refined product interfaces for AI-assisted analytics workflows.
  • Made query progress, result state, and failure behavior more legible in the user experience.
  • Extended analytics presentation for more complex visual results.

Context

AI-assisted analytics is useful only when users can follow system state and understand the results presented to them.

Why it mattered

The contribution centered on making AI-assisted analytics behavior easier for users to inspect and understand.

What I owned

  • React and TypeScript product implementation
  • Analytics interface and visualization work
  • User-facing state and error clarity

Constraints

  • Asynchronous query and result behavior
  • Complex analytical output
  • User trust depends on visible, understandable system state

What I changed

  • Improved the presentation of query and result states
  • Added support for richer analytics visualizations
  • Strengthened user-facing failure and recovery clarity

Context

DataGPT AI was part-time product engineering work on an AI-assisted analytics platform. My contribution was on user-facing product behavior rather than model research or training.

Responsibility

  • React and TypeScript implementation for analytics interfaces
  • Visualization support for complex analytical results
  • Clear presentation of query progress, result state, and failure behavior

Engineering contribution

AI-assisted products lose credibility when the interface hides what the system is doing. The work concentrated on making asynchronous behavior, analytical results, and error states more understandable without overstating what the underlying system could guarantee.

Boundary

This is evidence of applied product engineering around AI-assisted analytics, not a claim of adjacent research or infrastructure expertise.