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Curtis Hensley

@curtishensley

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML, data engineering, and full-stack systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles leading AI/ML product delivery and data platform work where I can own end-to-end systems, mentor teams, and drive measurable performance, reliability, and cost improvements in a collaborative, engineering-driven culture.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years building and scaling AI-driven, data-intensive full-stack platforms for production environments. I specialize in Generative AI, LLM-powered systems, RAG, vector search, and lakehouse data platforms, and I own end-to-end delivery from model orchestration and production MLOps to user-facing applications and cloud-native deployments.

I have delivered measurable improvements—40% gains in response relevance, 30% compute cost reductions, and multi-region scalable services—across conversational AI, fintech, enterprise platforms, and healthcare. I mentor engineers, drive technical strategy, and implement reliable, secure, cost-optimized ML pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Rasa

Mar 2023 - Dec 2025 (2 years 9 months)

Led development of enterprise-grade generative AI platforms and RAG architectures, improving response relevance by 40%+ and reducing compute spend by 30% while scaling services for millions of users.

Generative AI RAG Pinecone Python fastAPI Docker Kubernetes AWS MLOps

Software Engineer III

IBM

Aug 2020 - Jan 2023 (2 years 5 months)

Designed and delivered enterprise AI and lakehouse data platforms, improving analytical query performance by 40% and pipeline reliability by 25% for regulated clients.

Databricks Delta Lake Snowflake Apache Kafka Sagemaker Apache Airflow Python Data Engineering Data Pipelines

Software Engineer II

Stripe

Dec 2017 - Jul 2020 (2 years 7 months)

Built high-availability, data-intensive backend services for global payment processing, integrated ML-driven risk signals, and reduced incident rates by 25%.

Python Apache Kafka PostgreSQL Backend Services Event Driven Architecture Observability Scalability Fraud Detection

Software Engineer

HelloBetter

Jul 2016 - Nov 2017 (1 year 4 months)

Developed data-driven web applications and backend APIs for digital mental health programs, improving response times by 30% and stabilizing the application via refactoring and tests.

Python REST APIs SQL Backend Development Web Applications Automated Testing Performance Optimization