Forward Deployed Engineer — AI Solutions
📞 512-565-3884
✉️ rob@robhybrid.com
📍 Austin, TX 78757
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Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with customers to design, build, and ship production AI solutions end to end — LLM agents, RAG systems, and MCP integrations on AWS. 15+ years across the full stack, with a track record of deploying software into live customer environments — nationwide HIPAA telehealth, real-time trading-desk tooling, and AWS products used by millions — and turning ambiguous business problems into working systems. Fluent from customer-facing discovery and stakeholder alignment down to agent orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and application code.
Web Developer, AWS Marketplace UX | Oct 2025 – Mar 2026
- Architected a multi-agent AI orchestration framework coordinating 4+ specialized agents in parallel — reduced complex development task completion time by 60% through tmux-based delegation with timeout management and status monitoring
- Built 2 production MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers: macOS UI automation (Python/PyObjC, 15+ tools) and tmux task delegation (Node.js, 8+ tools), extending AI agent capabilities beyond standard IDE tooling
- Developed an AWS Bedrock + RAG chatbot that became the single source of truth for Cloudscape/Venue design system guidance across the Marketplace UX team
- Created the Recursive Language Model (RLM) benchmarking framework, comparing orchestration strategies across 10 AWS service domains with autonomous overnight agent runs
- Built Fusion Agent Registry and CLI tooling managing 20+ AI agent configurations across documentation, code review, and content pipelines
- Automated the code review lifecycle with custom AI agents for comment resolution, build diagnostics, and CR maintenance — cut manual review overhead by an estimated 50%
- Shipped frontend UI components to millions of AWS customers using React, TypeScript, and Cloudscape design system
Full-Stack Developer | Apr 2024 – Jun 2025
- Designed and built FastAPI REST APIs (users, customers, sites, proposals, rates/interconnect) powering React energy-storage simulations across 10+ year horizons
- Migrated the backend from Flask to FastAPI, unlocking async processing for long-running simulations and improving API responsiveness
- Drove ALB auth redesign so unauthenticated API calls fail closed (401) while browsers still reach login — replacing brittle per-route auth decorators
- Extended GitHub Actions with unit, integration, and Playwright tests; added session-sticky Elastic Beanstalk build-swap for non-prod (disabled in prod)
- Eliminated 100% of known security vulnerabilities across the full application stack
- Conducted stakeholder interviews and delivered a UX redesign informed by direct user testing with energy traders
- Introduced FastAPI to resistant backend leads via demo, OpenAPI docs, and contract tests — the team adopted the design
Lead Web App Developer | May 2017 – Jan 2024
- Reverse-engineered undocumented mobile endpoints from traffic logs, documented the API, and steered later endpoints toward REST
- Built a clustered Node/Express telehealth video service with WebSockets, Redis, PM2, and Twilio — resilient restarts and autoscaling
- Designed services, networking, auth, and EC2/ALB topology for DoD VPN delivery — owned through handoff; DoD took production
- Architected HIPAA-compliant telehealth platforms with live remote patient monitoring, deployed across hospital systems nationwide
- Built a real-time WebGL dashboard streaming live patient vitals to hospital staff with sub-second latency
- Modernized delivery with Jenkins CI/CD, containerized services, and hardened deploy security; advocated automated browser testing
- Led cross-functional releases spanning product, engineering, QA, and design across major platform launches
Software Development Engineer (Mobile Device Management) | Jul 2016 – Jan 2017
- Built internal tools managing software deployment across Amazon's global mobile device fleet (thousands of devices)
- Designed REST API contracts for Java backend integration and shipped a mock server to unblock front-end development
- Created D3/React dashboards tracking provisioning performance in real time
Senior Web Developer | Oct 2012 – Jun 2016
- Built client products in Angular (~2 years) and React; pioneered LeanUX living style guides for award-winning financial education tools (Gold Davey; multiple W3 Awards)
- Introduced GitFlow and always-available CD with S3 builds addressable by commit, build, or branch
- Built a browser-based Google Glass simulator before official hardware release, demonstrating rapid prototyping capability
User Interface Developer | Oct 2011 – Feb 2012
- Built international mobile-first web solutions with Backbone.js, Bootstrap, and REST APIs
User Interface Developer | Mar 2011 – Oct 2011
- Created responsive UI components and reusable JS/CSS libraries for enterprise websites
Lead Developer | Jan 2011 – Mar 2012
- Directed full-stack development for education and corporate clients; introduced version control to the team (coached adoption through a “DON’T PANIC” walkthrough) and established Agile workflows
Implementation Designer | Sep 2010 – Jan 2011
- Built CSS implementations for Microsoft, JCPenney, and Gillette; created a PHP email templating tool saving hundreds of engineer hours
Developer | Nov 2009 – Oct 2010
- Built front/back-end features for social gaming; developed XML→SQL ETL into warehouse-style event tables
Interactive Designer | Aug 2008 – Oct 2009
- Designed digital fundraising applications raising $1M+ for nonprofits
Languages:
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL, C, C++, PHP, R, Bash
Frameworks & Libraries:
React, Node.js, Angular, D3, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Three.js, MobX, Plotly
Cloud Platforms:
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Machine Learning & Data Science:
TensorFlow, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn
Testing & Automation:
Vitest, Jest, Mocha, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, GitHub Actions
Web Technologies:
HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS, Tailwind, Material UI, Bootstrap, Ant Design, WebGL, OAuth, JWT, WebSockets
Databases:
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, DynamoDB
Other Tools:
Docker, Git, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, Webpack, Vite
BFA in Communication Design | Texas State University, Oct 2003 – May 2008
- 2017 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- 2017 AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- 2023 Stanford University – Machine Learning Specialization
- Davey Awards (2014): Gold (Education), Silver (Lifestyle), Silver (Games)
- W3 Awards (2014): Silver (Education), Silver (Lifestyle)
- Best in Biz Awards (2014): Bronze (Best App)
- Sounds Seen VJ Championship: 1st Place Final
- Open Source: Node.js Contributor