<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Obed Osei Frimpong — Forward Deployed AI Engineer</title><description>Forward deployed AI engineer in the UAE. I take LLM and agent systems from demo to production for fintech and finance-ops teams — with evals, guardrails and an audit trail.</description><link>https://oseifrimpong.com</link><language>en</language><item><title>LLM as adjudicator, not decision-maker: an auditable AI architecture for financial reconciliation</title><link>https://oseifrimpong.com/work/llm-as-adjudicator</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oseifrimpong.com/work/llm-as-adjudicator</guid><description>How I architect AI for workflows where a wrong answer costs money: deterministic engines generate candidates, the model only chooses among them under a strict schema, and every decision is traceable.</description><category>Case study</category><category>Finance operations</category><category>Reconciliation</category><category>GCC</category></item><item><title>2,000 TPS messaging middleware for a global retailer</title><link>https://oseifrimpong.com/work/high-throughput-messaging</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oseifrimpong.com/work/high-throughput-messaging</guid><description>A high-availability messaging layer in Go and Java that filtered, processed and logged customer messages at scale — plus the Kubernetes migration that cut deploy time by two-thirds.</description><category>Case study</category><category>Retail</category><category>Customer messaging</category><category>Platform</category></item><item><title>Self-checkout in a WeChat mini-program: store queues from 30 minutes to 2</title><link>https://oseifrimpong.com/work/self-checkout-mini-program</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oseifrimpong.com/work/self-checkout-mini-program</guid><description>Designed and built a self-checkout WeChat mini-program for retail stores, integrating product, payment and store systems so customers could skip the queue.</description><category>Case study</category><category>Retail</category><category>Payments</category><category>Mobile</category></item></channel></rss>