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I’m Kobby Owen, a senior full stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building fintech, enterprise, and AI-powered products. I work across backend services, frontend systems, and cloud infrastructure—turning complex data and workflows into reliable, user-friendly platforms. I’ve led and delivered work ranging from fraud detection and payment reconciliation to LLM evaluation pipelines and AI services that analyze large datasets and accelerate turnaround times. I enjoy engineering high-quality APIs, improving system observability and stability, and mentoring teams—always with a practical focus on performance, security, and measurable outcomes.…I’m Kobby Owen, a senior full stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building fintech, enterprise, and AI-powered products. I work across backend services, frontend systems, and cloud infrastructure—turning complex data and workflows into reliable, user-friendly platforms. I’ve led and delivered work ranging from fraud detection and payment reconciliation to LLM evaluation pipelines and AI services that analyze large datasets and accelerate turnaround times. I enjoy engineering high-quality APIs, improving system observability and stability, and mentoring teams—always with a practical focus on performance, security, and measurable outcomes.

Kobby Owen

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I’m Kobby Owen, a senior full stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building fintech, enterprise, and AI-powered products. I work across backend services, frontend systems, and cloud infrastructure—turning complex data and workflows into reliable, user-friendly platforms. I’ve led and delivered work ranging from fraud detection and payment reconciliation to LLM evaluation pipelines and AI services that analyze large datasets and accelerate turnaround times. I enjoy engineering high-quality APIs, improving system observability and stability, and mentoring teams—always with a practical focus on performance, security, and measurable outcomes.…I’m Kobby Owen, a senior full stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building fintech, enterprise, and AI-powered products. I work across backend services, frontend systems, and cloud infrastructure—turning complex data and workflows into reliable, user-friendly platforms. I’ve led and delivered work ranging from fraud detection and payment reconciliation to LLM evaluation pipelines and AI services that analyze large datasets and accelerate turnaround times. I enjoy engineering high-quality APIs, improving system observability and stability, and mentoring teams—always with a practical focus on performance, security, and measurable outcomes.

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I’m Kobby Owen, a senior full stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building fintech, enterprise, and AI-powered products. I work across backend services, frontend systems, and cloud infrastructure—turning complex data and workflows into reliable, user-friendly platforms.

I’ve led and delivered work ranging from fraud detection and payment reconciliation to LLM evaluation pipelines and AI services that analyze large datasets and accelerate turnaround times. I enjoy engineering high-quality APIs, improving system observability and stability, and mentoring teams—always with a practical focus on performance, security, and measurable outcomes.

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Senior Backend Engineer – AI Services & Platforms at Emergence AI

October 1, 2025 - Present

Built AI-driven agents to process and analyze 100K+ semiconductor data points, surfacing metrics that reduced analysis time from days to hours. Owned backend APIs, authentication, and platform services, and contributed to frontend experiences and product delivery. Improved internal engineering workflows with automation, cutting manual effort by 40% and turnaround time by 45%. Resolved critical production issues across AI infrastructure, improving reliability, security, and platform stability, and implemented observability, metrics, and monitoring for stronger operational insight.

AI Software Engineer at Turing

January 5, 2025 - December 20, 2025

I built scalable Python pipelines for large-scale LLM evaluation across 500K+ prompts, designing structured JSON schemas and automated frameworks for consistency, accuracy, and reliability testing. I also created high-quality training datasets through advanced data parsing and worked closely with researchers to integrate human feedback loops to improve model alignment.

Senior LLM Engineer at Turing

September 1, 2024 - September 1, 2025

Engineered scalable Python pipelines for large-scale LLM evaluation workstreams. Built structured evaluation frameworks using JSON schemas to validate model quality, consistency, and reliability. Developed benchmarking systems to measure accuracy, latency, and robustness. Created preprocessing pipelines using BeautifulSoup, regular expressions, and structured datasets.

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Nebula

May 1, 2023 - December 20, 2024

I architected and maintained high-performance databases, optimizing queries for scalability, and worked closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver impactful features. I introduced Zustand for state management, reducing frontend state complexity by 30%, enforced strict CI quality gates by eliminating code warnings and blocking faulty PRs, and partnered with product and design teams to ship AI-powered recruitment features that improved candidate–job matching.

Full Stack Engineer at Akadenia

February 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023

Built and optimized full-stack applications across multiple client engagements. Developed Shopify administration tooling that increased support productivity by 30%. Reduced AWS costs by 20% through cloud optimization and serverless adoption. Led technical hiring by designing and conducting engineering interviews, and mentored developers through code review and pairing.

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Akadenia

February 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023

I worked closely with the CTO to improve user experience across products by resolving performance bottlenecks and modernizing UIs. I built a Shopify admin app that helped support teams handle 30% more daily requests, strengthened application and data security through industry best practices, and reduced AWS costs by over 20% by migrating to S3 and serverless services. I also supported team growth by conducting technical interviews for engineering candidates.

Full Stack Engineer at Nsano Fintech

March 1, 2020 - March 3, 2022

I independently developed a fraud detection platform that blocked fraudulent activity and saved approximately $120K, and built a full-stack reconciliation engine to detect transaction errors and generate automated reports. I also created USSD applications and large-scale banking solutions used across Africa, while mentoring new interns and advocating for AI adoption in fintech, including piloting spending-pattern models.