AI Product Engineer
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Senior AI Platform Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and building robust, scalable machine learning systems. Specializes in high-performance JVM-based ML, GPU acceleration, and creating innovative developer tools that bridge the gap between AI research and production environments. Author of multiple open-source AI frameworks and tools, including an IntelliJ plugin with over 57,000 downloads.
Proven ability to translate theoretical concepts into practical, enterprise-grade AI platforms.
Remote/Westerville, OH
Oct 2018 - July 2025
Developer Experience AI: Pioneered and built agentic AI systems to automate troubleshooting and operational intelligence, directly improving developer and operator workflows.
Full-Stack DevTools: Architected and delivered a full-stack application (React/TypeScript + Kotlin/Spring) leveraging LLMs to analyze Jenkins build failures, enabling self-service diagnostics.
JVM Performance Tuning: Led deep-dive performance analysis of critical JVM-based services, achieving significant throughput improvements and cost savings through advanced profiling and optimization.
Deployment Orchestration: Designed and built a sophisticated, multi-stage deployment orchestration tool with automated canary analysis, rollback capabilities, and comprehensive audit trails, increasing deployment safety and velocity.
Open Source Integration: Maintained and enhanced core open-source platforms (Apache Ranger, Azkaban) to meet enterprise requirements, contributing patches upstream.
Seattle, WA
2012 - Oct 2018
At Expedia, led cloud migration of big data infrastructure (Hadoop to AWS/Qubole) and designed a high-performance real-time ads targeting system (~10k tps, TP95 <5ms).
At Amazon, led productionalization of a Java web service for decision support and developed real-time DDoS detection systems.
At HBO, reduced cpu and memory load by 90% through critical bug fixes and developed static code analysis tools for large-scale code cleanup.
At Plugged-In Technologies, created a cross-platform video conferencing app with advanced features like screen sharing and recording.
At Big Fish Games, developed an Android video game streaming client with real-time video processing capabilities.
Long history of publishing open source research and software projects
