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C. James Ekhator

AI/ML Platform Engineer

Shipping production AI and cloud infrastructure. Multi-model LLM orchestration on AWS Bedrock. Regulated-workload experience from JPMorgan Chase (SOX) and Quality Health Care Group (HIPAA).

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What started as Java debugging in a college coffee shop became 6+ years shipping production systems. I build backend services in Python and Java, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and multi-model LLM architectures on Bedrock — with the guardrails, cost budgets, and observability that hold up under real traffic. My instinct is toward systems that operate themselves and AI that ships to real users, not demos.

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Professional Experience

Two tenures across regulated workloads — SOX-compliant banking at JPMorgan Chase and HIPAA-compliant healthcare at Quality Health Care Group.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Software Engineer (Banking)

April 2024 - Present

Platform engineering across private and public cloud for SOX-regulated banking services. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform, AWS (Lambda, ECS, Step Functions), Cloud Foundry.

  • Architected agentic AI workflow + chat dashboard on Amazon Bedrock and JPMC's CDAO Smart SDK — autonomous Jira ticket completion via job-type-routed agents (extensible across Grafana, SonarQube, ServiceNow SDKs) with extended-thinking validation, plus a developer console surfacing cross-repo context, SEAL/FID credentials, entitlements, and regulatory information through knowledge-base-grounded LLM queries — automating team workflows with a path to firmwide rollout under the firm's AI adoption mandate
  • Architected blue-green deployment strategy with automated database migration rollbacks for zero-downtime releases across SOX-regulated banking services
  • Designed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (Jenkinsfile + Spinnaker + custom Git branching) supporting ~1-hour production lead time for backend Django and Java/Spring services
  • Built large-scale data processing pipelines on AWS EMR, Kinesis, Glue, and Athena — real-time and batch analytics for cross-team consumers
  • Provisioned AWS Lambda, ECS tasks, and Step Functions workflows with Terraform (IaC), automating cross-account event handling via EventBridge and SNS alerting
  • Integrated PyTest integration test suite as CI/CD quality gate over Django banking-service routes, blocking deployments on regression
  • Engineered Celery + RabbitMQ async task processing with multi-layer health-check endpoints for proactive incident detection
  • Built backend API routes via Django views and DRF serializers — extending banking services with new endpoints under RBAC + SOX-aligned access controls

Quality Health Care Group Inc.

Software Engineer (Healthcare)

June 2018 - April 2024

Sole-developer build of HIPAA-aligned healthcare platform. Django REST Framework + React/TypeScript → Cloud Build (19-step CI/CD) → GCP/AWS.

  • Architected HIPAA-aligned healthcare platform end-to-end (Django REST API + React/TypeScript) and built a 19-step Cloud Build CI/CD pipeline with automated rollback management and distributed locking, eliminating concurrent-deploy race conditions
  • Engineered JWT authentication with RBAC across 4 clinical role tiers (Nurse, Supervisor, Admin, Support), token rotation, blacklisting, and comprehensive audit trails with 7-year retention for HIPAA compliance

Multi-Model Routing

Side project exploring cost/latency tradeoffs across 2026's Bedrock lineup — Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7, Haiku 4.5, Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Lite. Pattern carried over from the production multi-model router I built for the Healthcare Compliance Platform (Bedrock Claude + Titan), which cut monthly inference costs 78% on HIPAA-regulated healthcare document processing. Select a scenario to see how routing decisions play out for different request shapes.

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Certifications & Credentials

Currently pursuing the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional cert; target May 2026.

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer — Professional

In Progress — target May 2026

Exam code AIP-C01. Covers foundation models, multi-model orchestration, Bedrock integration patterns, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, responsible AI, and production GenAI deployment.

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