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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

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RAGLLM IntegrationElasticsearchTypeScriptDistributed SystemsFirestoreApplied AIMicroservicesRustRedisKubernetes (AWS EKS)ASR / Speech (Whisper, LoRA fine-tuning)Real-Time / StreamingAWSEvent-Driven (Kafka / NATS)WebSocketsMulti-Tenant SystemsPythonObservability (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack)DockerMongoDBPulumiGCP (Firebase)PostgreSQL

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Skinner is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building reliability-critical, real-time distributed systems. Formerly a Co-founder & CTO, he is now focused on a hands-on IC track. He is actively working on personal projects including Vox Personalis (fine-tuned ASR for Deaf-accented speech) and On-Device ASR with Speaker Diarization. He is seeking Senior Backend / Senior Software Engineer roles, open to various company stages, with a strong interest in real-time, distributed, or Applied AI systems.