Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ai dev by day | jazz musician by night | cat dad forever welcomes any puzzle and opportunity to create - https://kdmb.ca
Laser-focused on solving business problems effectively with generative AI - Launched and actively maintain company-wide AI chat and search platform used by over half the company - Designed, developed, and deployed several AI infrastructure tools in several languages, including a multi-vendor AI Gateway, LLM testing playground, SQL data lake query generator, and a feedback-based agent evaluation platform - Created continuous feedback platform integrating with Slack, React, and Jira - Reduced time-to-feedback loop in GitHub by designing a CI/CD plugin recreating a Vercel-like experience - Prioritizes reliability and quality with trustworthy CI/CD pipelines and iterative, trunk-based development
Founding engineer of open-source startup from seed to $37M Series A - Architected V2 of core database API resulting in 10x increase in app-wide performance - Served as company advocate by writing, recording, and hosting blogposts, podcasts, livestreams, etc - Led interviews and strategic hiring of 10+ technical and operational staff - Shaped company culture via contributions to core values, company handbook, new hire benefits, etc.
- Composed SQL queries for abuse tracking - Composed compliance procedures and responded to security inquiries - Wrote open-source product documentation - Logged feature requests, triaged bug reports, and provided support to engineers. - Answered customer inquires via email and social media
- Internal code contributions in Python, Perl, ColdFusion, Javascript, Bash - Representative at conferences across the US (PyCon2019, PyBay19, GlueCon19, PyGotham19) - Backups system administrator - Troubleshot a variety of cloud-native issues (Linux administration, DNS, networking, web servers, automation, containerization) - Provided incident response to a variety of internal and customer systems - Provided remote support via tickets, phones, and a variety of online platforms (IRC, Slack) - Advocated for F/OSS community - Public work: -> https://www.linode.com/community/user/bleckemby/answers
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