
Jeffrey C
AI Integration Engineer, LLM, RAG, Claude and OpenAI APIs, 25 Year Architect
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Work experience
MetLife
Full-time • 11 yrs 11 mos
Lead Architect
Oct 2021 - Present • 4 yrs 10 mos
Lead Architect over ~30 Group Life administration applications. Designed and built end-to-end Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines deploying containerized Java applications to OpenShift (OCP 4.x). Architected automated straight-through processing pipelines integrating Salesforce with internal web services. Drove org-wide security remediations for Log4J and WebSphere Liberty migrations. Mentored multiple onshore and offshore vendor teams.
Lead Software Development Engineer
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021 • 2 yrs 6 mos
Technical lead for a $3M portfolio of Group Life systems. Implemented Blue/Green deployment models on Docker Swarm. Built a CCS Rules Engine in .NET Core/C#/Blazor to replace 1,000+ manual rules. Led SAFe/ADM Agile Release Train architecture transitions and automated testing frameworks in Java/Bamboo. Managed an Agile team of ten as Scrum Master and mentored interns.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Aug 2014 - Mar 2019 • 4 yrs 7 mos
Technical lead on distributed policy systems across 50 Linux/AIX servers. Designed high-performance call center applications on WebSphere Liberty in Docker Swarm. Achieved ten-minute production release capability via automated smoke testing. Designed REST web services using Spring and Swagger. Optimized nightly batch trails and implemented Git Flow branching strategies.