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Nergal Issaie
Director of Engineering specializing in AI/ML platforms and cloud systems
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Senior engineering leader from IBM who has built and scaled enterprise AI/GenAI platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, combining executive-level org leadership with hands-on debugging of production distributed systems. Particularly compelling for Director/VP roles needing someone who can unify architecture, platform strategy, and engineering execution across multiple teams.
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Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end engineering strategy for IBM enterprise AI/GenAI platform
- Led global engineering org of 50+ engineers and managers
- Deep enterprise AI, LLM, RAG, and semantic search platform expertise
- Strong architecture judgment across build-vs-buy, hybrid cloud, and platform standardization
- Scaled platform delivery with 3x deployment velocity improvement via CI/CD and GitOps
- Improved incident recovery time by ~50% through observability and operational maturity
- Proven technical debt reduction through phased modernization of legacy systems
- Hands-on cross-team production debugging in distributed systems
- Resolved complex latency and timeout issues across inference, retrieval, and orchestration layers
- Established API contract standards and enforcement mechanisms across multiple teams
- Built engineering organizations around platform ownership rather than project-based delivery
- Balances executive-level leadership with selective hands-on technical intervention
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