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Bilial Kemp

@bilialkemp

I build AI-driven, cloud-native financial and enterprise platforms at scale.

At Northwestern Mutual, I architected distributed AI-driven financial platforms, LLM-powered advisor intelligence systems, and high-throughput data pipelines across Azure and AWS.

I've built scalable backend, data, and full-stack systems for Kohl's, Time Warner Cable, and Google, including recommendation services, telecom platforms, and Google Maps APIs. My work spans event-driven microservices, real-time analytics, machine learning deployment, and secure identity management.

I lead platform architecture and engineering standards while delivering reliable, high-performance systems using .NET, Python, React, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Staff AI Engineer

Northwestern Mutual

Jul 2021 - Mar 2026 (4 years 8 months)

Architected and deployed distributed AI-driven financial platforms using .NET Core, ASP.NET Web API, and event-driven microservices. Led MLOps infrastructure design and provided technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.

.NET Core Web APIs C#Azure AWS Kafka Spark S3 Pgvector Pinecone RAG React Next.js TypeScript GraphQL Python PyTorch TensorFlow Docker Kubernetes MLFlow CI CD Airflow JWT RBAC Redshift DynamoDB Lambda

Senior Software Developer

Kohl's

May 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years 4 months)

Architected real-time machine learning pipelines using Apache Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, and AWS Kinesis. Developed low-latency recommendation services and deployed production ML services using Docker and Kubernetes.

Kafka Spark AWS Kinesis Python TensorFlow fastAPI Spring Boot React TypeScript GraphQL Airflow S3 Redshift Docker Kubernetes CI CD A B Testing

Full Stack Engineer

Time Warner Cable

Aug 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 4 months)

Developed scalable customer service and account management platforms using Node.js, Python, and RESTful microservices. Built event-driven data pipelines and implemented real-time service monitoring systems.

Node Express Python Flask REST React JWT Redis Docker Jenkins AWS

Junior Software Engineer

Google

Jun 2013 - Jul 2015 (2 years 1 month)

Contributed to backend services powering Google Maps, developing scalable APIs using C++, Java, and Python. Built distributed data processing pipelines and assisted in optimizing map tile rendering.

C++Java Python MapReduce BigTable JavaScript Distributed Systems Data Processing