Vitalis User
@vitalisuser
Senior AI Platform & Infrastructure Engineer building secure, governed, high-availability enterprise AI systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Platform & AI Infrastructure Engineer with 12+ years delivering enterprise-scale Data and AI platforms across experimentation, training, feature management, model registry, CI/CD, serving, and observability. I design and operate multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available AI platforms with governance guardrails, clear golden paths, and self-service enablement from ideation to production.
My focus is end-to-end MLOps/LLMOps lifecycle management—LLM serving, RAG architectures, and agentic systems with safety and reliability evaluation. I’ve architected distributed training and inference at scale while optimizing GPU/CPU capacity and costs in regulated environments.
I also lead platform modernization and AI governance initiatives, translating complex technical concepts into value for senior stakeholders. From policy-as-code guardrails to AI observability and AIOps, I build systems that improve release frequency, reduce incident detection time, and meet compliance needs like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, NIST 800-53, and SOC 2.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & Engineer (HireMe)
HireMe
Jan 2026 - Present (5 months)
Developed an agentic job-search assistant that parses resumes, scores candidate-job fit using LLM embeddings, and auto-tailors applications via a RAG pipeline over job listings. Implemented multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph-style research/writing/review roles and hardened the execution loop against tool failures (rate limits, 403s, malformed JSON) for graceful degradation.
Builder (AI Auditor)
AI Auditor
Jan 2026 - Present (5 months)
Prototyped an agentic compliance and code review system that audits codebases and cloud configurations using static analysis plus LLM reasoning. Produced ranked findings with suggested PR-ready patches and generated structured JSON/Markdown outputs for SOC 2/ISO evidence collection and executive summaries.
Architect (HealthPulse Portal)
HealthPulse Portal
Jan 2026 - Present (5 months)
Architected a high-availability k3s Kubernetes platform on AWS fully provisioned via Terraform/OpenTofu. Implemented GitOps delivery (ArgoCD), policy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper), progressive rollouts, and automated node patching/drift remediation with Ansible AWX plus centralized observability.
Founder & Engineer (Cloniq)
Cloniq
Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)
Built and launched a voice cloning SaaS where users upload samples, fine-tune models, and generate studio-quality speech on demand. Implemented TTS/transcription using ElevenLabs/OpenAI and Whisper, built queue-based generation with Stripe billing and usage metering, and enforced strict tenant separation with Supabase RLS and signed-URL delivery.
Builder (Agentic AI Lab)
Agentic AI Lab
Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)
Built a self-hosted LLM orchestration lab using n8n with a unified interface over OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini. Implemented RAG over Supabase and Pinecone using Tavily/Jina, connected React frontends hosted on Vercel to self-hosted n8n via secure tunnels, and hardened agent loops against external tool failures.
Senior AI Platform Engineer
Violet Streams
Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Defined and evolved an enterprise AI platform roadmap spanning experimentation, training, model registry, CI/CD, LLM serving, and observability across AWS, Azure, and GCP for healthcare workloads generating 8M+ monthly transactions. Delivered multi-tenant, multi-region high availability on EKS/AKS/GKE and improved GPU utilization by 47%, reduced AI response latency by 39%, raised contextual retrie
Founder & Builder (VsITLearn)
VsITLearn
Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)
Launched a technical learning platform for DevOps, cloud, and AI engineering with curated labs, video content, and project-based tracks. Built a Jamstack frontend with serverless backend and used the platform as a testbed for Infrastructure as Code patterns, observability pipelines, and AI-assisted content generation.
Asst VP MLOps & DevOps
Cloudetha Technologies
Jun 2021 - Sep 2024 (3 years 3 months)
Led MLOps and GenAI platform engineering for a regulated, multi-tenant AWS environment with zero customer downtime across releases, owning EKS GPU workloads, operators, storage classes, and Istio service mesh. Reduced annual cloud spend by $3.4M via GPU scheduling and autoscaling, cut infrastructure drift by 82%, and embedded compliance-as-code for HIPAA/PCI-DSS/SOC 2/SOX-regulated delivery.
Sr DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
Portland G&E
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 9 months)
Designed CI/CD and infrastructure automation for grid modernization across AWS and on-prem, migrating legacy deployments to Kubernetes with Helm-based releases and automated rollbacks. Improved availability to 99.99%, reduced MTTR by 67%, cut infrastructure provisioning timelines by 82%, reduced cloud operating costs by $3.1M annually, and accelerated CI/CD deployment velocity by 74% while strengt
DevOps Engineer
Equity Concepts Consulting
Jan 2014 - Mar 2018 (4 years 2 months)
Owned environment provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code and database release automation, improving release readiness timelines by 65% and strengthening deployment governance for regulated ecosystems. Built enterprise monitoring/logging and observability using AppDynamics, Splunk, and ELK, and developed automation for WebSphere administration and patching
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Texas at Austin
Postgraduate Degree, Cloud Computing
Completed a postgraduate degree program in cloud computing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Federal Polytechnic Nekede
Higher National Diploma (HND), Architecture
Earned an HND in Architecture from Federal Polytechnic Nekede.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Stripe Billing
GitHub
Veracode
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Liquibase
Gmail
Rollout
Databricks
Terraform
Pulumi
Azure DevOps
JSON
MLflow
Kubeflow
Kafka
Apache Pulsar
FastAPI
Istio
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Linux
Datadog
AppDynamics
Gemini
Prisma
gRPC
OpenSearch
Ansible
Serverless
Vercel
OAuth2
GuardRails
Root Cause
Hugging Face
Snyk
Supabase
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Weaviate
ChromaDB
Trivy
Pinecone
Ray
ElevenLabs
KServe
vLLM
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
OpenTofu
ArgoCD
Semgrep
Evidence
Bicep
Bash
K3s
Scale AI
N8N
pgvector
Agentic
Faiss
LangGraph
Writer
Loops
Tavily
Stack AI
Middleware
Kustomize
Remote
Jan
Movement
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
Cloniq.comPortfolio
Cloniq.comJob categories
Skills
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