Kevin Riggen

adz8ca@r.postjobfree.com github.com/kvnn 661-***-**** Haleiwa, HI

WORK EXPERIENCE

A.I. Sabbatical. June 2023 - Present

My main focus is personal LLMs, prompt engineering and proprietary input / output chains across them and the greater ecosystem (HuggingFace, OpenAI, Bard, LangChain). This includes:

- Audio and video stream analysis, context extraction and supplemental generation

- Data cleaning, transformation and partitioning (into training, validation and test sets)

- Model architecture, tuning and layering

- Hardware and infrastructure configuration (and variability strategies)

- Training pipelines and evaluations

SFOX - fintech and cryptocurrency trading exchange January 2016 – June 2023 Sr. Backend Developer: Node.js // Python // MySQL // rabbitmq // gRPC // k8s on AWS

Gathered requirements from the business side to design, develop, monitor and maintain business critical applications

Managed high stakes production environment using reliable logs and actionable metrics with a focus on availability, latency, and security

Developed and deployed a high-throughput messaging system using RabbitMQ to handle millions of financial transactions per day, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Integrated partner APIs into the backend system to expand the range of financial products and services offered

Wrote testable code and performed automated tests to ensure product quality Whistle Messaging - enterprise messaging platform November 2015 – October 2020 Founding Engineer: Python // Node.js // Postgres // SQS // Lambda // S3 // Terraform on AWS

Designed, implemented, monitored and maintained a high-availability distributed infrastructure that operated at 99.8% uptime

Implemented a data analytics platform to support predictive modeling for sentiment analysis and chat bots

Migrated millions of records from NoSQL to Postgres with zero downtime.

Built a systems monitoring & alert suite to triage performance bottlenecks & system failures

Coordinated a 3rd-party security assessment & penetration test. Paddle8 - real-time auctions and bidding November 2013 – November 2015 Sr. Backend Developer: Python // Django // Postgres

Developed and maintained APIs for frontend developers and provided technical leadership to other software developers

Built web scrapers to generate biographical information of artists and art-auction results

Designed and built software that allowed auction agents to mediate remote bidding for live auctions

Implemented suggested search

Toyota - industry leading automotive manufacturer July 2012 – November 2013 Sr. Full-stack Developer

Built the Financial Tools and Geolocation applications using efficient, maintainable, and testable code

Implemented highly customized analytics tracking across multiple consumer devices SKILLS & INTERESTS

Skills : *nix, Python, Typescript, SQL, AWS, Rapid MVP development

Interests: Bitcoin & decentralized messaging; mycology; soccer; music; psychology

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