Salt Lake City, UT · open to interesting work

Granite Tait

Site reliability engineer & AI builder

Make it work, then make it smart. I keep production systems healthy at Nusano, and I build AI tooling that holds up outside the demo. Lately: multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and test automation people actually use.

For the record

Years doing this 7
Duplicate bug reports cut at Alpha Warranty 70%
Hackathon wins 2

Currently at

Nusano

Previously at

Paycor Alpha Warranty Services Ascend Staffing

Educated at

Brigham Young University Western Governors University

A little background

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer at Nusano, a science company in West Valley City. Before this I automated QA at Alpha Warranty and DevOps at Paycor. And before any of that I studied Chemical Engineering at BYU, which is probably why I treat software like a system to be stress-tested rather than a demo to be shipped.

Right now I'm deep in multi-agent architectures and RAG pipelines. The interesting problem isn't getting one model to answer. It's getting several of them to check each other's work.

On the side: AIMy took THE MAVERICK award at Podium's AI hackathon, and Quorum made finalist at Utah Tech Week.

7+ Years in Tech
6 Cloud Certifications
2 Hackathon Wins

Experience & Education

Nusano

Current

Site Reliability Engineer

Since June 2026 West Valley City, UT
  • Ensuring reliability and uptime of production systems for radioisotope science
  • Building observability, monitoring, and alerting across infrastructure
  • Automating deployment workflows and driving incident response practices

Alpha Warranty Services

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

1 year Salt Lake City, UT
  • Engineered .NET E2E test suites with WebSocket-based solution, boosting execution speed by 200%
  • Built AI-powered auto-test-plan generator from acceptance criteria, saving 20+ hours/week
  • Reduced duplicate bug reports by 70% using vector database semantic matching

Paycor Inc

DevOps Specialist

3 years Cincinnati, OH (remote)
  • Automated 5+ CI/CD pipelines in Python/PowerShell improving delivery velocity for 100+ developers
  • Built internal AI tools including a Bug Triage RAG system using GPT-4o and vector search
  • Led Career Compass, a professional development program rolled out to 1,000+ employees

Ascend Staffing

Traveling System Administrator

1 year North Salt Lake, UT
  • Resolved 100+ hardware/software issues weekly across multiple client sites
  • Managed network infrastructure including routers, switches, and firewalls

Western Governors University

BS Cloud Engineering

2 years Online
  • Cloud Architecture, Application Management, AWS/Azure certifications

Brigham Young University

Chemical Engineering

6 years Provo, UT
  • Co-authored 2 publications on molten salt simulations (AIChE)
  • VP of BYUSA Student Government, planned 1,000+ guest events

Things I've built

Abstract illustration of a voice waveform generating a shopping list with aisle locations
Hackathon Winner

Featured Project

AIMy — AI Shopping Assistant

Podium Hackathon Winner (THE MAVERICK). An in-store AI assistant for hardware stores. Press a button, describe your project out loud, and get every item, aisle, quantity, and estimated total before you grab a cart.

300+ applicants
38 teams
24hr build time
OpenAI APIVoice RecognitionReactTypeScript +1
How it was built

Built in 24 hours at the Podium AI Hackathon where it won THE MAVERICK award out of 300+ applicants, 100+ builders, and 38 teams. AIMy solves a real problem: walking into a hardware store knowing what you want to build but leaving an hour later with half the list. The system uses voice input to understand project descriptions ('I'm building a 12x16 deck'), then generates a complete shopping list with aisle locations, quantities, and price estimates. Built with a team of 3.

Abstract illustration of four AI advisor agents debating toward a consensus decision

Quorum — Virtual Board of Directors

Utah Tech Week Hackathon Finalist. An AI-powered advisory system for solo founders. Spins up 4 distinct agent personas (CFO, CMO, CTO, Legal Counsel) that debate business decisions. Syncs with Google Drive for context-aware advice via RAG.

Gemini 2.0 FlashFirebaseRAG +2
How it was built

Built in 48 hours for the Utah Tech Week Hackathon where it became a finalist. The system uses Gemini 2.0 Flash to instantiate 4 board member personas with distinct perspectives and debate styles. Each agent reads context from the founder's Google Drive before weighing in. The real innovation is the debate loop — agents argue until they reach a consensus, which is summarized into an actionable recommendation. Key challenge: preventing agents from simply agreeing with each other required explicit dissent prompting in the system message.

Abstract illustration of parallel agents converging into a synthesized morning brief

Maestro — AI Morning Planning System

Multi-agent orchestration system that automates daily planning. Pulls weather, calendar, fitness data (Strava), and priorities while you sleep. Agents negotiate conflicts and deliver a synthesized daily blueprint on wake-up. Open-sourced on GitHub.

PythonOpenAI APIMulti-Agent +2
How it was built

An open-source multi-agent morning planning system. Runs as a Python DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) overnight. Five agents run in parallel where independent: WeatherAgent, CalendarAgent (Google Calendar API), FitnessAgent (Strava API), PriorityAgent (reads a markdown file). SynthesisAgent waits for all and produces a formatted daily brief. Key insight: constraining upstream agents to output structured data (not prose) made the synthesis dramatically cleaner. Delivered via email each morning.

Abstract illustration of a bug matched in vector space and routed to the right developer

Bug Triage RAG System

Context-aware bug routing system that captures 9 years of institutional knowledge. Uses GPT-4o to summarize bugs, searches vector-indexed history for semantic matches, and auto-tags the developer who worked on similar features in MS Teams.

GPT-4oVector DatabaseRAG +2
Internal
How it was built

Internal tool built at Paycor to address a real pain point: when bugs arrive, figuring out who on a 100+ person team has the relevant context was slow and inconsistent. The system vectorizes 9 years of Jira ticket history using OpenAI embeddings. New bugs are summarized by GPT-4o, then semantically matched against historical bugs. The top-matching developer is auto-tagged in MS Teams with the relevant historical context attached. Reduced triage time from hours to minutes.

Abstract illustration of a rough field sketch transformed into a clean signed change order

PocketPrint — Field Change Order Digitizer

Bridge between physical job sites and digital documentation. Converts rough napkin sketches and photos into professional change orders with AI-interpreted dimensions, material estimates, and built-in digital signatures for on-the-spot approval.

OpenAI VisionSVG GenerationPDF Export +2
How it was built

Built for construction field teams who still use napkin sketches to document change orders on job sites. Uses OpenAI Vision to interpret sketches, extract dimensions, and estimate materials. Outputs a professional SVG-based change order document with digital signature support for on-site approval. The key challenge was getting reliable dimension extraction from rough hand drawings — solved with a structured prompt that asks the model to output JSON before generating the document.

Abstract illustration of semantic search across embedded document chunks

AI-Powered Document Search with RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for intelligent document search. Vectorizes text documents, stores in Supabase vector database, and uses OpenAI embeddings to find semantically relevant information.

ReactNext.jsTypeScript +4
Internal
How it was built

A full RAG pipeline: documents are chunked, embedded with OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small, and stored in Supabase's pgvector extension. Queries are embedded at runtime and matched via cosine similarity. The UI shows which document chunks contributed to the answer. Built as a demonstration of how RAG can replace keyword search in document-heavy workflows.

Abstract illustration of an automated test pipeline with quality gates

End-to-End Automated Testing & QA Pipelines

Robust testing frameworks for E2E, integration, and regression tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Includes AI-generated test plans and quality guardrails for stochastic systems.

PlaywrightAI Test PlansCI/CD +2
Internal
How it was built

A Playwright-based test suite integrated into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines at Paycor. Covers E2E, integration, and regression scenarios. AI-generated test plans use GPT-4o to analyze PR diffs and suggest which test suites to run and generate new test cases for changed logic. Quality guardrails prevent merges when AI-stochastic output variance exceeds a threshold.

Recent Activity

Hackathons, meetups, and what I'm building in public

hackathon

Won THE MAVERICK at Podium Hackathon

Built AIMy, an AI shopping assistant for hardware stores. 300+ applicants, 100+ builders, 38 teams — we took the top prize.

Hackathon AI Winner
personal

Registered for LA28 Olympics Ticket Lottery

Threw my name in the hat with 5 million other fans for the 2028 LA Olympics. Fingers crossed!

Personal Olympics
technical

Reading: Building AI-Native Engineering Teams

Key insight: Spec > Syntax. TDD is non-negotiable. Context engineering is critical for AI performance.

AI Engineering Reading
hackathon

Selected for Podium AI Hackathon

2026 is the year of AI orchestration. Excited to bring together powerful AI tools in seamless automated workflows.

Hackathon AI
personal

Celebrated Lunar New Year

8 Sumo oranges, roasted lamb, and time with friends. Reminded that friendship, knowledge, and food are the most valuable things.

Personal Culture
technical

Built Automated Bug Root-Cause Analysis

Connects Azure DevOps with GPT-4o to trace bugs to their source commits via git blame. Zero manual effort traceability.

AI DevOps Automation

The toolbox

AI & Machine Learning

OpenAI APIGemini APIRAG SystemsVector DatabasesMulti-Agent ArchitectureLLM Fine-tuningPrompt EngineeringEmbeddings

Languages & Frameworks

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNode.jsSQLPowerShellBash

Cloud & Infrastructure

Microsoft AzureAWSDockerKubernetesAzure DevOpsCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeCloudflare

Tools & Platforms

GitFirebaseSupabaseServiceNowPlaywrightTailwind CSSViteREST APIs

Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS

Azure AI-900

Microsoft

Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

Microsoft

Azure Database DP-900

Microsoft

CompTIA A+

CompTIA

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Salt Lake City, Utah
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