kevin damato
@kevindamato
Senior Data Engineer building LLM pipelines and cloud-native data platforms for AI systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years building production data platforms, AI-system infrastructure, and cloud-native ETL/ELT. I specialize in LLM ingestion pipelines, healthcare knowledge graphs, and multi-agent AI systems that turn complex clinical and operational data into reliable foundations.
At ADIA Health, I architected a four-stage LLM pipeline through ingestion-to-graph commit, graph-aware chat, tracked graph mutations, and versioned snapshots. I built a healthcare knowledge graph architecture supporting test recommendations, ICD-10 coverage analysis, care-gap detection, and explainable AI behavior.
I’ve led production multi-agent workflows with a PHI-safe, six-agent Slack data team, agent routing, passive LLM triage, thread continuity handling, and read-only database access. I also automated the annual ICD-10 update process using EventBridge, Step Functions, and ECS Fargate, reducing manual review from 2–3 days to 2–3 hours.
Beyond healthcare, I’ve built cloud-native pipelines and orchestration across AWS (Glue, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions), Spark/Scala, and modern warehousing (BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL). I bring strong infrastructure rigor—observability, CI/CD, Terraform, and containerized batch execution—to deliver dependable data platforms.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Data Engineer
ADIA Health
Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Architected data infrastructure for a medical AI knowledge platform, including an end-to-end LLM pipeline and a healthcare knowledge graph. Built PHI-safe multi-agent workflows, automated ICD-10 updates, and delivered financial reporting and billing data pipelines.
Senior Data Engineer
REalyse (UK)
Jun 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)
Designed AWS data pipelines for property, geospatial, demographic, and listings datasets. Optimized Glue/Spark jobs, built data crawlers and extractors across multiple file types, and improved ML workflow execution time.
Senior Data Engineer
Easy Solar
Oct 2019 - May 2023 (3 years 7 months)
Designed and implemented data pipelines across dbt, BigQuery, Snowflake, AWS, Airbyte, Airflow, and Terraform for transactional and reporting workloads. Built scraping and processing systems and contributed to cloud and data-platform migrations while containerizing transformations with test coverage.
Data Engineer
The World Bank
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 5 months)
Data engineer role at The World Bank (details not provided).
Coach
Django Girls
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year)
Coached at Django Girls (details not provided).
Software Engineer
DigitalMR
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018 (3 months)
Built NLP and Python-based ETL systems for social-media data processing and API ingestion. Implemented a custom normalization driver for multiple source formats to reduce manual data wrangling.
Software Engineer
Universal Software House
Jan 2014 - Feb 2016 (2 years 1 month)
Developed financial services for core banking systems serving mid-sized banks. Built REST APIs with Django REST Framework and supported engineering workflows with Jenkins and Celery.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Universidad 'Alejandro de Humboldt'
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Software Engineering
Earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering from Universidad 'Alejandro de Humboldt' in 2016.
University of Toronto
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2013.
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Software and tools used professionally
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