Peter O.

AI Platform Engineering Manager | Distributed Systems | Scalable Backend Architecture | Engineering Leadership

United States

About

With two decades of experience across platform engineering, backend systems, and distributed architectures, I’ve had the opportunity to lead teams delivering scalable, reliable services for enterprise and cloud environments My career began at IBM in enterprise system development, continued through building large healthcare platforms at Epic, and expanded into leading core platform and AI-related services at Oracle. I focus on translating complex system needs into practical, scalable technical solutions, with hands-on experience in system optimization, reliability, and engineering leadership

Experience

  • Oracle (United States)
    • AI Platform Engineering Manager
      2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

      Lead engineering for Oracle’s AI platform, including model inference services, distributed execution frameworks, and data processing pipelines. Manage a cross-functional team (backend, platform, SRE) to build scalable, reliable AI systems for enterprise customers. Drive architectural improvements to enhance system stability, performance, and observability. Partner with product and research teams to support AI deployment needs across critical business domains

    • Software Engineering Manager
      2020 - 2025 · 5 yrs

      Led technical direction for core platform services, including job scheduling, distributed backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. Guided the transition of legacy systems toward AI-driven architectures, building model deployment interfaces and automation toolchains. Managed engineering teams responsible for architecture decisions, delivery cadence, code quality, and cross-team coordination.Oversaw major reliability and performance initiatives, improving throughput, latency, and platform availability. Established engineering best practices covering testing, monitoring, and long-term maintainability

  • Epic (United States)
    • Lead Software Developer
      2015 - 2020 · 5 yrs

    • Senior Software Developer
      2011 - 2015 · 4 yrs

    • Software Developer
      2008 - 2011 · 3 yrs

  • Software Engineer at IBM
    2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs