Nkosi Felix, Senior Data Platform Engineer

What This Site Demonstrates

Also: what Nkosi Felix can do.

Each capability below is backed by a public page, lab, source file, test, evidence entry, or bounded system behavior. Unsupported claims are omitted.

Data Platform Engineering

Nkosi Felix can build governed ingestion workflows.

Demonstrated by: NBCU/Universal Creative document-ingestion harness, Microsoft Graph/SharePoint delta-sync, validation routing.

Inspect:

Boundary: Does not expose employer-confidential data or claim unsupported production scope.

Nkosi Felix can build Kafka-to-PostgreSQL pipeline patterns.

Demonstrated by: idempotent Kafka-to-PostgreSQL consolidation service with replay handling and DTO/schema validation at 4C Strategies.

Inspect:

Boundary: Public reference implementation uses synthetic data, not the original employer's proprietary pipeline.

Nkosi Felix can add schema/DTO validation and failure routing to ingestion pipelines.

Demonstrated by: ACCEPT/QUARANTINE/SYSTEM-failure routing (NBCU), DTO validation (4C), Field Change Order Evidence Tracker lab.

Inspect:

Boundary: Labs are synthetic; no real employer or customer data is used.

Nkosi Felix can surface observability and degraded modes in data systems.

Demonstrated by: Grafana/Prometheus/Loki dashboards at 4C, documented ~30% reduction in debugging cycles; this site's own fail-closed chat/signal degradation.

Inspect:

Boundary: The ~30% figure is the only allowed metric for that role; no other metrics are implied.

Nkosi Felix can use GitLab CI/CD and deterministic test gates.

Demonstrated by: contract-test gates at 4C (JUnit 5, Mockito, Spring Cloud Stream test binder); Acceptance Harness (7/7 tests); Air-Gap Messaging Ingest (26/26 tests).

Inspect:

Boundary: Test counts are from this project's own CI output, not a third-party audit.

AI Ingestion / Evidence Systems

Nkosi Felix can design evidence-bounded AI assistants.

Demonstrated by: this site's own chat — evidence ledger, generated manifest, policy engine, and adjudicator.

Inspect:

Boundary: Does not claim unrestricted chatbot intelligence or private data access.

Nkosi Felix can use deterministic canonical routing for public facts.

Demonstrated by: a canonical chat router that answers identity/employer/feature questions with zero LLM calls.

Inspect:

Boundary: Covers a bounded set of public questions; unmatched questions fall through to a provider-assisted or fail-closed path.

Nkosi Felix can use LLM providers behind adjudication, not instead of evidence.

Demonstrated by: live, provider-assisted answer paths used only when configured and healthy, gated by evidence/safety/confidence checks before anything reaches a client.

Inspect:

Boundary: Provider/model identity is never exposed in the public response; used only when selectable and healthy.

Nkosi Felix can reject unsupported claims safely.

Demonstrated by: fail-closed adjudication, demonstrated by the unsupported-claim rejection example on the homepage.

Inspect:

Boundary: Rejection is deterministic and policy-driven, not a guess.

Nkosi Felix can support Resume Match / JD Fit as chatbot capabilities.

Demonstrated by: deterministic (no-LLM) resume-match and JD-fit-score logic reachable through the evidence-backed chat.

Inspect:

Boundary: Does not rewrite the resume, does not guarantee interviews or offers, does not store pasted job descriptions by default.

Microsoft Graph / SharePoint / M365 Intake

Nkosi Felix can design SharePoint/Microsoft Graph-style intake patterns.

Demonstrated by: document-ingestion harness and checkpointed Graph/SharePoint delta-sync at NBCU/Universal Creative.

Inspect:

Boundary: Does not expose private employer repositories or confidential data.

Nkosi Felix can use checkpointing, delta-sync, manifests, and provenance to make sync outcomes reviewable.

Demonstrated by: eTag/content-hash checkpointed delta-sync, atomic landing, and run-evidence capture.

Inspect:

Boundary: Described at the pattern level, not the original employer's internal repository.

Nkosi Felix can route validation outcomes into reviewable handoffs.

Demonstrated by: ACCEPT/QUARANTINE/SYSTEM-failure routing with structured reasons and ambiguity holds.

Inspect:

Boundary: No real employer data; the lab uses synthetic change-order records.

Industry Use-Case Applications

All labs are synthetic/public-safe. No real patient, grid, construction, customer, payment, employer, or private tracker data.

Health

Nkosi Felix can build synthetic-data health-intake labs.

Demonstrated by: Patient Signal Intake Lab — schema validation, quarantine routing, review packets.

Inspect:

Boundary: Synthetic-only. No PHI. Not a HIPAA-compliance claim.

Energy

Nkosi Felix can build synthetic grid/telemetry quality monitors.

Demonstrated by: Grid Event Quality Monitor — timestamp validation, drift detection, degraded-telemetry handling.

Inspect:

Boundary: Synthetic project data only.

Construction / Infrastructure

Nkosi Felix can build field change-order evidence trackers.

Demonstrated by: Field Change Order Evidence Tracker — document intake, duplicate detection, owner-approval boundary.

Inspect:

Boundary: Synthetic project data only.

Data / AI

Nkosi Felix can build evidence-grounded RAG evaluators.

Demonstrated by: Evidence-Grounded RAG Evaluator — unsupported-claim rejection, evidence gates, confidence/metadata, source-backed answers.

Inspect:

Boundary: Mirrors this site's own chat; not a demo of a separate production system.

Public Reference Projects

Nkosi Felix can build deterministic validation harnesses.

Demonstrated by: Acceptance Harness — pure functions, no I/O, typed outcomes, 7/7 JUnit tests.

Inspect:

Boundary: Public-safe synthetic/reference implementation.

Nkosi Felix can build idempotent ingest pipelines with full observability.

Demonstrated by: Air-Gap Messaging Ingest & Observability — Kafka-to-Postgres, duplicate handling, Grafana/Prometheus/Loki, 26/26 tests.

Inspect:

Boundary: Synthetic, public-safe data only.

Nkosi Felix can build clean-room commerce data lakehouses.

Demonstrated by: ShopLabs Lakehouse Lab — Python/DuckDB, synthetic Faker-generated order data, Parquet export.

Inspect:

Boundary: No real customer, payment, or store data.

Nkosi Felix can build transparent resume/JD scoring services.

Demonstrated by: CareerAssistAI Scoring Pipeline — FastAPI service, tokenized keyword matching, transparent rationale.

Inspect:

Boundary: Synthetic inputs only; no private tracker or recruiter data.

Recruiter / Hiring Manager Workflow Systems

Nkosi Felix can create role-fit evidence summaries.

Demonstrated by: resume-match and JD Fit chat capabilities — requirement-to-evidence mapping, recruiter-safe reply drafts.

Inspect:

Boundary: No invented claims or fake metrics; does not guarantee interviews or offers.

Nkosi Felix can separate recruiter facts from hiring-manager proof.

Demonstrated by: a dedicated Recruiter Packet (work authorization, availability, submission facts) and a separate Hiring Manager Proof page (architecture, tests, evidence, operations).

Inspect:

Boundary: No active clearance claimed; no degree-completion claim.

Nkosi Felix can keep hard blockers and gaps visible instead of hiding them.

Demonstrated by: JD Fit Score's hard-blocker detection and gaps/verify-items output.

Inspect:

Boundary: Deterministic, no LLM call; does not mutate any real job tracker.

Public Signals / External Data Handling

Nkosi Felix can connect to public no-login data adapters with caching and graceful degradation.

Demonstrated by: Location-Aware Weather Signal and Global Currency Basket.

Inspect:

Boundary: Not investment advice, not booking authority, not an official airline/provider partnership.

Nkosi Felix can maintain a bounded, four-lane live news ticker with safe fallback tiers.

Demonstrated by: AI News Ticker — SpaceX / xAI-Grok / Anthropic-Claude / OpenAI-ChatGPT-Codex lanes, in-memory + seed cache fallback.

Inspect:

Boundary: Never backfills a missing lane with another lane's story; omits quietly instead.

Bilingual / Machine-Readable / Agent-Readable Delivery

Nkosi Felix can build bilingual (EN/ES) site surfaces without duplicating content systems.

Demonstrated by: a dictionary-swap language toggle with localStorage persistence, applied across every public page.

Inspect:

Boundary: Does not claim native Spanish fluency or a professional translation certification.

Nkosi Felix can expose machine-readable proof for AI agents and recruiters.

Demonstrated by: ai-index.json, llms.txt, sitemap.xml, claims-register.json, proof-pack.json, and a checksummed evidence manifest.

Inspect:

Boundary: Machine-readable files describe public facts only; explicit "do not infer" sections guard against overreach.