SEBASTIAN SCHKUDLARA
PostgreSQL, Redis
Solidity (Smart Contracts)
Fine-tuning (LLaMA/Mistral)
Vector DBs (pgvector)
Event-Driven (Kafka)
K8s / AWS / GCP
Databases: MongoDB, Neo4j, MySQL, SQLite,
Memcached, Elasticsearch.
DevOps & Scripting: Python, Bash/Shell, Ansible,
Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana.
Blockchain: Polygon, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Hedera,
Chainlink, Stellar.
Architecture: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, JSON-RPC, OAuth
2.0, WebSocket.
- Polyglot: DE (Native), PL (Native), EN (Fluent), ES (Fluent).
- Hyper-Productivity: Rapid prototyping, TDD, & deployment.
- Team Buff: Mentorship, Team Building, & Technical Leadership.
Professional Summary
Innovative AI & Microservices Architect with nearly two decades of experience in scalable, high-performance backend systems, event-driven architectures, and AI-driven applications. Expertise in agentic AI, large language model (LLM) integration, DevOps automation, and cloud-native microservices.
Primary Goal: Delivering robust, cost-effective, and scalable platforms using Kubernetes, AWS, Python-based AI frameworks, RAG workflows, and Ruby on Rails API development.
Core Competencies
- LLM Integration: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, LLaMA, DeepSeek, etc.
- RAG Pipelines: High-accuracy retrieval-augmented generation.
- AI Orchestration: PydanticAI, LangChain, custom multi-agent systems.
- Vector DBs: Pinecone, ChromaDB, pgvector.
- Cloud: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure.
- Streaming: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Sidekiq, Redis Pub/Sub.
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana.
- APIs: FastAPI (Python), Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, gRPC.
- Real-time: Redis, streaming analytics.
- Database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j - optimized for AI workloads.
Professional Experience
SwitchAI (Multi-Model AI Proxy): Architected and engineered an AI request-routing proxy, dynamically selecting models based on cost/latency. Unified integrations across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.
Scoutica: Led the architecture of a multi-agent recruitment platform. Orchestrated specialized AI agents using event-driven AWS SNS/SQS.
HiveMindAI: Built a marketplace for autonomous AI agents. Developed Traylinx CLI for seamless agent lifecycle management.
Advanced OAuth 2.0 Auth Service: Designed high-security microservice with specialized A2A flows. | Clients: Python, Node.js
A2A Ruby GEM: Developed production-grade SDK for Google's A2A protocol (gRPC, OAuth 2.0). | View Repo
Architected advanced RAG systems for industrial R&D. Led model fine-tuning initiatives for maritime and defense sectors.
Developed RAG-based AI solutions and optimized LLM performance for enterprise data infrastructure. Built NLP pipelines for summarization and sentiment analysis.
Pioneered AI-driven automation in logistics using microservices. Developed eBL Platform digitizing Bill of Lading via Polygon blockchain NFTs.
Grew team from 1 to 15 engineers. Established K8s infrastructure and built real-time event-driven analytics backend for insurance risk.
Developed large-scale environmental data APIs and unified diverse datasets via microservices for global research visibility.
Featured Projects Detail
Revolutionized the Bill of Lading process using Polygon blockchain to create NFT-backed eBLs, ensuring immutable ownership and traceability.
Blockchain-based system for forest product traceability, ensuring end-to-end transparency and compliance via blockchain certifications.
Developed backend APIs for a global environmental initiative (White House OSTP & WRI). Created scalable query services used by researchers worldwide.
Education & Expertise
TU Berlin
LLM fine-tuning, microservices best practices, and AI architectures.