James Larson

Experience Level

Expert
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Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior AI/ML Engineer at Arbol
May 1, 2022 - Present
Led integration of AI/ML into Arbol's climate-risk web platform; built data pipelines processing large weather and financial datasets from AWS S3 and external APIs; developed FastAPI-based backend services for AI outputs and analytics; deployed production systems on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda); collaborated with web developers to connect ML inference APIs to React dashboards; containerized with Docker and automated builds with GitHub Actions; supported model operations with MLflow and CloudWatch for performance/log/version tracking across environments.
Senior AI/DevOps Engineer at CVS Health
June 1, 2020 - May 1, 2022
Oversee design and automation of end-to-end AI/ML infrastructure, integrating intelligent systems with cloud-native and web-based environments for large-scale analytics and decision workflows; implemented containerized microservices and API gateways; managed distributed data processing with Spark and Spark ML; integrated LLM/NLP-driven services into enterprise pipelines; established CI/CD, IaC, and observability across multi-cloud environments; connected AI-driven insights with dashboards and portals for real-time business interaction.
Software Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer at Spring Health
March 1, 2016 - June 1, 2020
Helped build and scale the digital mental health platform; redesigned core API architecture using FastAPI to reduce average response time; unified data pipelines with Python, Pandas, SQLAlchemy and AWS S3; automated real-time data synchronization between backend services and React dashboards; optimized API-to-frontend communication with caching and structured JSON schemas; migrated legacy services to AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda) with health checks and auto-restart; containerized services with Docker; ensured HIPAA-compliant storage and access control; promoted to Senior Systems Engineer, leading backend modernization and mentorship.

Education

Master of Computer Science at The University of North Florida
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Financial Services, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment