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Ariel Lev

@ariellev

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I architect cloud-native AI platforms, leading teams to scale production impact.

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can lead principal-level cloud-native AI/platform architecture, set engineering standards, and build high-performance teams while scaling mission-critical production systems.

I’m a Principal Engineer with 15+ years across the full technical stack, specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI-driven systems. I bridge deep technical execution with organizational impact, and I’ve led engineering squads to automate multi-region Kubernetes management and scale voice-AI for real-world users.

At Slalom, I’ve owned team leadership and engineering standards, then delivered high-leverage systems—like a cloud-native voice AI platform that enabled hands-free documentation for 2,500+ inspectors, and Kubernetes automation that cut provisioning time from 3 weeks to under a day. Earlier, I built AWS-native data platforms and prototyped scalable analytics infrastructure, and I architected a cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-native accelerator for multi-tenant LLM serving using production-grade tooling and cost-optimized GPU provisioning.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Principal Engineer

Current

Slalom

Dec 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Managed a team of 4 Platform Engineers and established engineering standards and a coaching culture to accelerate client delivery. Architected a cloud-native voice AI system for 2,500 field inspectors, eliminating manual entry across 440,000 inspections per month and reducing per-user cost from $9 to $1.

AWS DynamoDB S3 Cloudfront API Gateway Bedrock ElevenLabs Claude EKS Terragrunt Python BASH ArgoCD Voice AI

System Architect

EPAM Systems

Nov 2023 - Nov 2024 (1 year)

Designed AWS-native architectures for a multinational biotech client, enabling multiple teams to run independent decentralized workloads across genomic and production-line datasets at scale. Prototyped a production-grade Databricks analytics platform with reusable infrastructure patterns and automated CI/CD for multidisciplinary teams.

AWS S3 Athena Glue Sagemaker Lake Formation Data Platform Architecture Databricks CI CD Python Lake Architecture Prototyping

Tech Lead, Cloud Platform

Valerann

May 2021 - Oct 2023 (2 years 5 months)

Led a team of 4 to build an ownership-driven culture and deliver end-to-end production deployments for an intelligent transportation B2B SaaS. Architected and led a migration from AWS/ECS to a multi-region Kubernetes mesh, operating 3 production clusters while scaling CI/CD to 100+ parallel builds.

Kubernetes Kafka AWS Azure Microservices Terraform Istio Airflow Prometheus Grafana

Solution Architect

MHP - A Porsche Company

Oct 2018 - Apr 2021 (2 years 6 months)

Architected a cloud-native ML recommendation engine for a premium automotive online shop, automating the end-to-end ML lifecycle from ingestion to inference. Led architecture for an MES software delivery platform migration by translating complex legacy requirements into a structured, actionable architecture.

AWS Sagemaker AWS S3 AWS Glue MLFlow ML Lifecycle Recommendation Systems Architecture Design Migration Engineering

Machine Learning Engineer

BFFT/EDAG

Apr 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Developed connected car services for a premium German automotive manufacturer, focusing on swarm data analytics and smart mobility functions. Architected and built distributed, event-driven applications for large-scale vehicle data processing and maintained on-prem infrastructure with automated CI/CD pipelines.

Java Vert.X Spark GraphQL Cassandra MongoDB Event Driven Architecture

Data Scientist

PwC

Oct 2016 - Mar 2017 (5 months)

Applied Python and R to analyze financial data and build customer segmentation models within transaction services. Delivered analytics focused on deriving actionable customer insights from transactional datasets.

Python R financial data analysis Customer Segmentation Transaction Services Analytics Statistical Modeling Data Analysis

Full-Stack Developer

Valtech

May 2013 - Sep 2016 (3 years 4 months)

Built scalable RESTful services and full-stack web components for connected car infotainment products. Established CI/CD pipelines and led Android mobile development to enable continuous delivery within an Agile team.

Spring Framework ReactJS REST API Development Jenkins Android Development Selenium CI CD

Software Engineer

OpenSynergy

Apr 2011 - Apr 2013 (2 years)

Developed car telemetry systems and connected vehicle functions using Java, Android, and C/C++. Contributed to building and maintaining features for connected-car experiences in automotive systems.

Java Android C C++Connected Vehicle Functions Embedded Systems Programming Software Development