Senior Full Stack · AI/ML · Blockchain Engineer

Jesse Lucus

Engineering intelligent, secure, and scalable systems — from LLM-powered platforms to decentralized products.

Senior engineer with 12+ years of experience across frontend systems, backend services, AI/ML infrastructure, blockchain integrations, cloud platforms, and developer workflows — turning complex ideas into reliable products with measurable impact on throughput, reliability, cost, and model performance.

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Available now — open to senior & staff roles
About

Building useful systems with purpose.

Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years designing, building, and modernizing web applications, distributed systems, AI/ML platforms, and blockchain infrastructure. Deep experience with LLM integration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, MLOps, smart contracts, microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture — focused on systems that are maintainable, secure, performant, and understandable by the teams that operate them.
12+ yearsEngineering experience
50K+ reqConcurrent AI API requests at sub-100ms latency
92%RAG relevance accuracy in context retrieval
$5M AUMDeFi launch within first three months
35% ↓LLM inference costs via multi-provider optimization
75% ↑Faster release cycles through CI/CD automation
Skills

Technology stack.

A core stack spanning AI/ML platforms, full stack web engineering, blockchain systems, and cloud infrastructure — from model deployment to production delivery.

PythonAI/ML & backend services
TypeScriptTyped applications
JavaScriptApplication logic
Java / Spring BootEnterprise backends
TensorFlowModel training
PyTorchDeep learning
FastAPILLM & RAG services
PostgreSQLRelational & vector data
ReactComponent systems
Next.jsFull stack web apps
Vue.jsReactive interfaces
AngularEnterprise frontend
Node.jsBackend services
GraphQLAPI systems
MongoDBDocument databases
RedisCaching & queues
SoliditySmart contracts
RustSystems engineering
GoConcurrent services
DockerContainers
KubernetesOrchestration
AWSSageMaker, EC2, S3
Prometheus / GrafanaObservability
Git / CI-CDDelivery automation
Selected Work

Engineering focus.

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Fused Gaming · NDA

AI/ML Platform Engineering

Production RAG pipelines at 92% relevance accuracy, multi-provider LLM integration layers, real-time vector search across 10M+ embeddings, and MLOps automation shipping weekly model updates with zero production incidents.

PythonLangChainPyTorchPineconeSageMaker
Dtravel Nite Protocol landing pageDtravel

Blockchain Systems

Decentralized application infrastructure behind a DeFi product reaching $5M AUM in three months — smart contract workflows, multi-signature wallet architecture, and a 40% improvement in transaction throughput.

SolidityEthereumWeb3RustGo
Blue Apron consumer storefrontBlue Apron

Full Stack Platforms

Product architecture spanning interface systems, APIs, persistence, and delivery infrastructure — including a microservices migration that cut system downtime by 30% and accelerated release cycles by 75%.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptSpring BootPostgres
Anmel case study platformAnmel

Developer Infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines, containers, cloud systems, and observability — 90% fewer deployment-related errors and 60% less unexpected downtime through proactive monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

DockerKubernetesAWSJenkinsGrafana
Experience

Engineering history.

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Fused Gaming, LLC · Aug 2024 – Present

Architecting production AI/ML infrastructure for intelligent game systems — RAG pipelines, multi-provider LLM integration (35% lower inference costs), vector search across 10M+ embeddings at sub-50ms latency, and MLOps automation processing 2TB+ of telemetry daily.

Senior Full Stack Engineer — Blockchain

Dtravel · Jan 2020 – May 2024

Built decentralized product infrastructure supporting a DeFi launch that reached $5M AUM in three months — smart contract integrations, multi-signature wallet architecture, and a 40% improvement in blockchain transaction throughput.

Full Stack Developer

Blue Apron · Feb 2016 – Nov 2019

Contributed to web applications, backend services, and a microservices migration — 40% faster data retrieval, 30% less downtime, 75% faster release cycles, and 90% fewer deployment errors through containerization and CI/CD.

Frontend Engineer

Anmel · Mar 2012 – Dec 2015

Built responsive single-page applications and reusable component systems that improved code efficiency by 20%, with automated delivery pipelines on Jenkins and AWS-hosted infrastructure.

Education

B.S. Information System Security ITT Technical Institute · 2012 – 2014 · GPA 3.44
B.S. Computer Science ITT Technical Institute · 2007 – 2011 · GPA 3.71