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