# Rico Kahnert

Rico Kahnert is a remote worker on Himalayas, Principal Software Engineer at Carson Group, based in United States. Their ID is verified.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@ricokahnert

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Backend engineer building AI agent platforms in Java, Spring Boot and AWS
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 180k+ USD |
| Job categories | Software Engineer, Software Architect |
| Skills | Java, Spring Boot, AWS Bedrock Agent Core, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, Agentic AI, Human In The Loop Workflows, Document Analysis, Domain Driven Design, Microservices, API first Design, Event Driven Architecture, Eventual Consistency, AWS Lambda |
| LinkedIn | https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/rico-kahnert-76b781/ |
| GitHub | https://https://github.com/schlumpfling42 |

## About

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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.
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## Experience

### Principal Software Engineer (current)

Carson Group. Jun 2022 - Present

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• 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
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Skills: 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

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• 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
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Skills: AWS, Azure, GCP, Control-Hub, Data-Plane, SPOT-Instances

### Senior Software Engineer

Cayuse LLC. Oct 2018 - Oct 2021

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• 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
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Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, Multi-tenancy, Microservices, AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk, CI-CD, Docker, Jenkins

### Application Developer

U.S. Bank. Sep 2016 - Sep 2018

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• 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
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Skills: SOAP, Java, Refactoring, Testing

### Consultant

DERTOUR. Dec 2014 - Jul 2016

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Provided consulting services.
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### Senior Software Developer and Architect

compeople AG. Apr 2006 - Sep 2014

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Chose the platform and designed the data model for a new cloud storage system and built a CRM application.
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Skills: Cloud-Storage, CRM, Data-Modeling, Architecture

### Developer and Team Lead

Qpass. Jun 2004 - Feb 2006

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Developer and team lead roles.
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### Developer and Team Lead

Paradata Systems. Oct 2000 - Mar 2004

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Developer and team lead roles.
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### Software Developer

Software Consultancies in Germany

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Developer roles at software consultancies.
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## Education

### Crucial Conversations

Training, Leadership Communication

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Completed Crucial Conversations leadership communication training in April 2023.
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### Domain-Driven Design

Training, Software Architecture

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Completed Domain-Driven Design training in December 2022.
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### Fachhochschule Schmalkalden

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Fachhochschule Schmalkalden, Germany, completed in 1997.
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## Tech stack

- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon Redshift
- AWS IAM
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon S3
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- Spring Boot
- Spring
- Redis
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Gradle
- React
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Hibernate
- New Relic
- Elasticsearch
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon RDS
- TypeScript
- JUnit
- Mockito
- Amazon Cognito
- Git
- Docker
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- SQL
- Amazon EventBridge
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- AWS
- Claude

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