Jason K

Led architecture and infrastructure for Sindri's AI assistant platform, setting technical direction and platform standards. Built agent and email-integration services, CI quality gates, and a NATS-based pub/sub architecture.

Led architecture of a secure multi-cloud Kubernetes platform for GPU workloads across GCP, Vultr, and CoreWeave, achieving 99.9% availability. Built custom Kubernetes Operators, a Go object storage gateway, and a full observability stack.

Eliminated a zero-knowledge proof provider's weekly outages by re-architecting vcluster for high availability with etcd and three control plane replicas across three regions. Replaced a single-node ElasticMQ instance with a multi-node RabbitMQ cluster.

Designed and built an ELT pipeline on AWS Kinesis, S3, and Snowflake, cutting over $1.2M annually in Heroku costs. Migrated 30+ microservices and databases to AWS EKS with zero downtime, and built CI/CD pipelines and monitoring stack.

Led design of a self-service infrastructure-as-code framework for a health insurer using Terraform and Jenkins. Developed Terraform modules, served as design authority for a healthcare nonprofit's cloud platform, and designed CI/CD pipelines for a dental management provider.

Architected a Kubernetes-based data platform on Azure (AKS, Kafka, ADLS Gen2, Synapse) and built applications demonstrating distributed ingestion, processing, and serving. Collaborated on Azure Landing Zone and ran technology evaluations.

Architected logical and physical data models for OLTP and reporting systems, including clickstream analytics for A/B testing. Built data platforms with real-time pipelines on Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, and Snowflake, and automated operations with CI/CD and IaC.

Developed and maintained SQL Server databases and ETL processes, and built data platforms for data scientists and production models.

Developed and maintained ETL processes in stored procedures and SSIS packages, addressing performance, auditing, error handling, and data quality. Automated denormalization of the Originations database and converted VB.NET code to SQL and .NET script components.

Built and maintained SQL Server databases and data marts sourced from the enterprise warehouse, and tuned performance using execution plans and DMVs. Automated ETL, reporting, and database maintenance with SSIS and C# script components.

Supervised the help desk team, resolving escalated technical issues, hiring associates, and managing queues in real time to meet SLAs.

Provided technical support and progressed to technical product support, resolving escalated and undocumented technical issues.

Completed a Certificate in Full Stack Development from Southern Methodist University in 2018.

Grade: Summa Cum Laude

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business in 2012, graduating Summa Cum Laude.