Staff Software Engineer and Distributed Systems Architect with 20+ years of experience. Author of "Hadoop with Python" (O’Reilly Media).
I specialize in scaling mission-critical data platforms and high-availability backend systems. Recent highlights:
- Architected a cloud-native agentic AI platform using Gemini 2.5 and custom MCP servers (sub-5s latency).
- Built a 15TB+ biomedical graph platform on AWS, reducing infra costs from $100k to <$10k/month.
- Engineered a 60TB NoSQL clinical discovery platform with 1-second p99 query latency.
- Scaled engineering organizations from founding hire to 20+ developers and $4M+ ARR.
Seeking Staff/Principal Engineering, Engineering Management, or Principal Architect roles. I thrive in high-growth environments where technical strategy meets deep execution.
Aventic AI | aventic.ai | DevOps/Platform Engineer | Hybrid, Baltimore, Boise, USA | Full-time
Aventic is trying to change the way people talk with companies. We’re building an intelligent platform with custom LLMs and deploying them in the cloud and on-premise. We’re looking for someone who enjoys working with Kubernetes in the cloud and deployed locally on-site; enjoys autonomy and is able to take large features from conception to deployment; and wants to be able to have a large impact on an early stage product.
You’ll work on automation, observability, CI/CD, and infra-as-code; and partner closely with product and engineering teams to ensure reliability and velocity.
Tech stack: LLMs, Javascript, Python, Node, React, Ruby, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Java, SQL/NoSQL, AWS (EMR, ECS, RDS), GCP (GKE, Cloud Run), Terraform/OpenTofu, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Hadoop, Accumulo, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenTelemetry
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/zachary-radtka / https://github.com/zachradtka
Email: zach [at] radtka [dot] net
Staff Software Engineer and Distributed Systems Architect with 20+ years of experience. Author of "Hadoop with Python" (O’Reilly Media).
I specialize in scaling mission-critical data platforms and high-availability backend systems. Recent highlights:
- Architected a cloud-native agentic AI platform using Gemini 2.5 and custom MCP servers (sub-5s latency).
- Built a 15TB+ biomedical graph platform on AWS, reducing infra costs from $100k to <$10k/month.
- Engineered a 60TB NoSQL clinical discovery platform with 1-second p99 query latency.
- Scaled engineering organizations from founding hire to 20+ developers and $4M+ ARR.
Seeking Staff/Principal Engineering, Engineering Management, or Principal Architect roles. I thrive in high-growth environments where technical strategy meets deep execution.