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Rick Hohn

@rickhohn

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Senior AI full-stack engineer building scalable generative AI platforms and production ML services.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building production generative AI platforms or ML-backed full-stack products at companies that value scalable infrastructure, cross-team collaboration, and measurable user impact.

I am a Senior AI full-stack engineer with experience architecting and shipping production generative AI platforms, scalable backend services, and full-stack applications. I have led projects that integrate LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and cloud-native infrastructure to deliver AI-powered features used by millions.

My background spans design and implementation of microservices, data processing pipelines, and CI/CD systems using Python, Java, Node.js, React/Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. I focus on optimizing inference performance, cost, and reliability while collaborating closely with product and research teams to turn ML research into production products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior AI Full-Stack Engineer

Current

Quora

Jul 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)

Architected and launched Quora AI Knowledge Assistant, building scalable RAG pipelines and full-stack AI applications that enabled semantic search and automated answer generation for millions of users.

Python fastAPI Pinecone Pgvector React Next.js TypeScript Docker Kubernetes

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Feb 2019 - May 2023 (4 years 3 months)

Delivered platform services for large-scale AWS data processing systems and designed microservice architectures that integrated ML capabilities and reduced deployment cycle time by 35%.

Java Python AWS Lambda ECS DynamoDB Kinesis Docker Kubernetes

Full Stack Engineer

IBM Consulting

Sep 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 3 months)

Built enterprise digital platforms for financial and healthcare clients, developing scalable REST APIs and data processing pipelines using Java, Python, and Apache Spark.

React Angular Java Python Apache Spark REST APIs Microservices Hybrid & Cloud