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Rico Kahnert

@ricokahnert

Backend engineer building AI agent platforms in Java, Spring Boot and AWS

At Carson Group, I build core features of an AI agent platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including specialized sub-agents, human-in-the-loop review, document analysis, and MCP tools that let agents access business data and carry out business functions.

I’m also leading the migration of 200+ TypeScript AWS Lambda functions into four Spring Boot services organized around business domains. I set standards for service architecture and CI/CD, and previously built a multitenant Spring service at Cayuse LLC for validating grant applications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Software Engineer

Current

Carson Group

Jun 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

• Lead migration of 200+ TypeScript Lambdas into 4 Spring Boot domain services (DDD, API-first)
• Build core of an AI agent platform in Python on Bedrock AgentCore: orchestrator with sub-agents as tools, user-created skills, human-in-the-loop review
• Implemented MCP tools in every domain service; integrated external MCP servers (Egnyte)
• Set architecture, CI/CD and event-driven standards
• Architecture Review Board; mentor engineers

Java Spring Boot AWS

AWS Bedrock Agent Core

MCP TypeScript Lambda EventBridge Amazon SQS DynamoDB Domain Driven Design

API first Design

CI CD Terraform Docker

Software Engineer IV

StreamSets Inc.

Oct 2021 - Jun 2022 (8 months)

• Built control plane features in StreamSets Control Hub that deploy data plane engines to AWS, Azure and GCP, including running on AWS Spot Instances where possible to reduce costs, and tested them with the company's Python test framework

AWS Azure GCP

Control Hub

Data Plane

SPOT Instances

Senior Software Engineer

Cayuse LLC

Oct 2018 - Oct 2021 (3 years)

• Converted the per-tenant grant validation engine into one multitenant Spring service enforcing thousands of rules across dozens of forms, so rule changes needed one deployment instead of dozens
• Rewrote central legacy services as Spring Boot microservices
• Moved deployment from Docker and Jenkins to CI/CD on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Java Spring Boot Multi tenancy Microservices AWS Elastic Beanstalk CI CD Docker Jenkins

Application Developer

U.S. Bank

Sep 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years)

• Maintained and refactored a SOAP service that gathers customer data from internal applications, splitting it into testable components so defects were faster to find and fix

SOAP Java Refactoring Testing