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Christopher Kanten

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in Node.js, Java, and regulated SaaS platforms

MpathicBrown UniversitySeattle, WA11 Years ExperienceSenior Level

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Built a production LLM-powered root cause analysis agent for supply chain alerts that helped operations managers avoid manual dashboard investigation. Demonstrates unusually strong depth in agent reliability, orchestration, and observability, with concrete production practices like hallucination blocking, shadow testing on 500 cases, and data-driven improvements that raised user agreement to 94% while cutting GPT-4 usage by 60%.

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped production LLM feature end-to-end for supply chain operations
  • Designed agent architecture with tool calling and LangGraph state machine
  • Strong reliability engineering for agent systems
  • Built hallucination controls via evidence cross-checking against tool call IDs
  • Proactive failure-mode design for loops, timeouts, missing tools, and cost overruns
  • Backend orchestration with FastAPI, Redis queues, and Postgres step persistence
  • Thoughtful latency/cost tradeoff design with sync vs async execution paths
  • Robust evaluation framework with nightly offline evals and edge-case regression suite
  • Data-driven iteration improved user agreement from 70% to 94%
  • Reduced unnecessary GPT-4 usage by 60%

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Experience

Lead Backend(Node.js + Java) EngineerMpathic · Oct 2023 – Feb 2026
Senior Backend DeveloperVentegra · Oct 2018 – Aug 2023
Backend DeveloperAccenture · Feb 2015 – Aug 2018

Education

Brown Universitymaster, Computer Science (2014)
Dartmouth Collegebachelor, Computer Science (2012)

Languages

English

Certifications

Cloud Computing CoreVerified Certificate for Introduction to Cloud Computing

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Christopher KantenSenior Backend Engineer specializing in Node.js, Java, and regulated SaaS platforms