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Emma Ponio

@emmaponio

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Senior AI-focused full-stack engineer commercializing LLM systems for enterprise impact.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building production-grade LLM/AI systems at scale, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver secure, reliable, high-impact products.

I am a Senior Enterprise AI and Full-Stack Engineer with 9+ years transforming cutting-edge AI research into revenue-generating products for Fortune-level enterprises.

I architect and deliver LLM-powered platforms, RAG systems, and high-throughput microservices using Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, and cloud-native infrastructure.

I have led end-to-end productization efforts that reduced latency by 40%, achieved 99.9% uptime, and scaled systems to support 50K+ concurrent requests while lowering MTTR and hallucination rates.

I partner with product, UX, and platform teams to translate ambiguous business problems into durable, secure, and production-ready AI solutions that drive adoption and operational efficiency.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior AI Backend Engineer

Kore.ai

Aug 2022 - Nov 2025 (3 years 3 months)

Architected and led delivery of enterprise-grade conversational AI platforms, reducing latency by 40%, supporting 50K+ concurrent requests, and improving reliability to 99.9% uptime across six+ enterprise channels.

Python AWS Docker Kubernetes Microservices Performance Optimization

AI Software Engineer

Leena AI

Aug 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 10 months)

Delivered production-ready RAG-based AI systems and high-throughput FastAPI microservices with sub-100ms responses and 99.95% availability, reducing hallucinations and handling 10K+ queries daily.

RAG fastAPI Python React Microservices Observability

Full-Stack AI Engineer

GrowthLoop

Sep 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Built AI-powered data activation platforms and Python APIs over Snowflake to enable hyper-personalization across 50+ customer segments, cutting release cycle time by 25% and production incidents by 40%.

Python React TypeScript Snowflake Data Pipelines CI CD Personalization

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Santo Tomas

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, data structures, and systems development.