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Michael Mcdermott

@michaelmcdermott1

Senior software engineer building full-stack, agentic GenAI products on AWS to deliver scalable, measurable business impact.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a Senior role where I can build scalable full-stack and agentic GenAI systems on AWS—owning architecture, RAG/LLM evaluation, observability, and delivery—while collaborating cross-functionally and mentoring engineers.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer focused on full-stack development and generative/agentic AI, with 10+ years building high-scale applications and distributed systems. I develop LLM-powered products using Claude and Amazon Bedrock, leveraging AgentCore and LangChain with RAG pipelines to improve accuracy and reduce manual effort.

I architect and ship cloud-native, microservices-based solutions that scale—designing event-driven systems, multi-agent workflows, and high-throughput processing on AWS. I also lead end-to-end delivery, observability and evaluation, and mentoring, using CloudWatch/Datadog/OpenTelemetry and automated LLM benchmarks to reduce incidents and accelerate releases.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Robin AI

Apr 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Architected and delivered agentic AI solutions and LLM-powered document review workflows using Claude, Amazon Bedrock, and related tooling. Built scalable RAG and multi-agent systems on AWS, improving review time and platform reliability.

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Epic Games

Jun 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Designed and implemented backend services and internal developer tools, improving Unreal Engine team workflows. Built CI/CD pipelines and internal analytics tooling using AWS and monitoring stacks, and collaborated on automated testing frameworks.

C++C#Python React .NET Unreal Build Tool Jenkins Git Perforce AWS RDS AWS Lambda CloudFormation Docker Grafana Prometheus Cloudwatch Pytest NUnit CI CD Testing Automation System Reliability

Software Engineer

Zynga

Apr 2017 - May 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Led development of distributed backend services for social games, improving latency and supporting high-concurrency workloads. Built real-time analytics and event processing pipelines and migrated backend systems toward a service-oriented architecture.

Java MySQL MemCached Redis REST APIs RabbitMQ Hadoop Hive Kafka SOA Service Oriented Architecture Distributed Systems

Software Engineer

Electronic Arts (EA)

Jun 2016 - Apr 2017 (10 months)

Engineered full-stack web applications and REST-style APIs supporting EA Sports live-service functionality. Optimized SQL Server performance and automated delivery pipelines to improve release consistency.