Senior Data/Platform Engineer with LLM Expertise

Jon Brown is a PhD-trained engineer/manager with extensive experience in data science and platform engineering. Currently a Senior Data Science Manager at Hyundai Motor America, he specializes in building large-scale vehicle telemetry pipelines, developing LLM-driven classification and RAG systems, and leading enterprise-wide LLM/AI adoption. Previously, he managed a data science team at HeadSpin, where he built data science pipelines, eliminated inefficient workflows, and optimized flagship data products. He is proficient in a wide array of technologies including Python, Go, SQL, various web frameworks, databases, messaging systems, cloud platforms (AWS), and MLOps tools. Jon is looking for senior data or platform roles, equally comfortable as an Individual Contributor or Manager, with a strong desire to ship products. He is open to full-time, fractional, or contract work and demonstrates his capabilities through numerous impressive side projects like forohtoo, IncentivizeThis, If I Go Missing, and IYBI, often involving Go, Temporal, Postgres, and LLMs on his personal Kubernetes cluster.