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Jaiden Kettleson
Entry-Level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in chatbots and web apps
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Data Science honors graduate (Maryville University) who has built Python/SQL backends and a capstone website handling sensitive user data. Emphasizes secure data handling (password encryption, secure database updates) and uses Git/GitHub Pages with CI/CD-style practices for managing and deploying changes.
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Key Strengths
- Built Python backend libraries/functions (calculator-style operations)
- Implemented SQL-backed backend for organized data structures
- Security-focused handling of sensitive user data (encrypting passwords before database writes)
- Used Git/GitHub Pages with version control for managing website updates/configurations
- Built and operated a production Flask/PostgreSQL service integrating a third-party API (Steam) with concurrent usage
- Diagnosed and eliminated timeout/latency issues by instrumenting with structured logs and refactoring to async background jobs
- Designs resilient workflows with idempotency, checkpointing, explicit planning/execution/verification, and clear retry/stop policies
- Strong AI productionization: prompt constraints, schema/DB-backed validation to prevent hallucinations, and fallback/escalation paths
- Database performance tuning using EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, and precomputing metrics to improve dashboard latency
- Emphasis on maintainable Python practices: layered architecture, typing/mypy in CI, dependency pinning, and layered testing
Reference Highlights
- Excellent backend engineer (one of the best the reference has seen)
- Delivered time savings and helped project come in under budget
- Accelerated development cycles and faster client delivery
- Reliable execution with thorough testing
- Strong at analyzing user needs end-to-end
- Well-organized documentation
- Strong understanding of complexity
- Excellent object-oriented approach
- Effective at breaking down complex tasks
- Improved organization/efficiency of legacy code
- Superb relational database capability
- Improved catalog system performance (reduced latency)
- High ownership in ambiguous situations
- Promoted/moved to team lead quickly
- Able to flesh out unclear requirements and set clear milestones
- Feedback-driven approach; strong at balancing speed/quality/outcomes
- Improved customer service operations and live chat experience
- Strong understanding of Intercom including backend and customer-facing behavior
- Knowledgeable and talented in API work (per reference’s observation of prior work)
- Built AI workflows that operated 24/7 and reduced need for live agents
- Closely monitored AI performance and continuously optimized workflows
- Designed workflows for varied scenarios (consultations, returns, complaints, FAQs)
- Proactive and structured (weekly manager check-ins; daily review of AI Q&A)
- Reliable and dependable (covered manager when sick)
- Graceful under pressure and with criticism
- Not afraid to ask for help/clarification
- Takes on challenges without wavering
- Exceptional Python-related maintainability/debugging/testing (as observed by reference)
- Logical judgment and assessment
- Contributed to increased revenue
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