Jabari Hunt

Technical Lead Engineer with 20+ years of experience in cloud applications, APIs, and software delivery, now focused on applied AI, AI adoption, and production-ready GenAI solutions. I help teams turn AI into usable systems, workflows, and business value.

Technical Lead Software Engineer at US Foods (2025-02 – Present)

• Leads the Digital Integration team in designing a GraphQL-based platform that enables internal company data access for partners and customers.

• Applies AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Kilo, Kiro, Claude, GPT, and Gemini to accelerate delivery across TypeScript, NestJS, Apollo GraphQL, Node.js, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS via Bamboo.

• Provides technical leadership across architecture and implementation, helping the team build a scalable integration layer for business use.

• Led an agile multinational software development team delivering cloud applications in Node.js, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Python.

• Led development of a cloud application for Amazon Seller Central and Vendor Central custom audiences, delivering performance at more than 220% above Amazon's direct offerings.

• Designed and implemented an event-driven Node.js system on GCP that increased advertising data collection from 2 million to 14 million rows per day.

• Replaced more than a dozen legacy application and database servers, eliminated proxy management dependency, and saved over $14,000 per month in infrastructure and proxy costs.

• Supported a Laravel application benchmarking paid ad performance across major platforms while processing roughly 2 million rows of data daily.

• Led migration of core applications and APIs from AWS to GCP.

• Created an open source development framework that accelerated project timelines, enabling delivery of five major SaaS projects in under three months.

• Delivered scalable Node.js and object-oriented PHP solutions, reducing server costs by an average of 14% across cloud-based, co-hosted, and bare-metal servers.

• Migrated and modernized PHP and COBOL-based systems with Node.js-based frameworks as a primary replacement.

• Designed and implemented a custom payment integration solution using Authorize.net, Stripe, Clover, and PayPal, reducing discount rate and per-transaction fees by an average of 23%.

• Simplified complex technical implementations for clients, improving satisfaction rates by 32%.

• Senior Software Engineer at Lowers Risk Group (2016-09 – 2017-01)

• Software Engineer at The Nerdery (2014-11 – 2016-08)

B.S. in Information Sciences & Technology – The Pennsylvania State University