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PHILIP BANKIER

Potomac,MD

Summary

Startup-focused Solutions Architect with hands-on experience in building AI platforms from ideation to implementation, passionate about partnering with innovative startups to maximize their impact with Generative AI.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Engineer & DevRel

Mixpeek
04.2025 - Current

- Leading development of multimodal data warehouse platform

- Leading developer relations and community building initiatives

Engineering Lead

Demolytics
04.2024 - 09.2024
  • Architecting and building a multi-agent platform for a specific vertical, driving product vision and execution
  • Iteratively improving AI agent development platform based on user feedback and on-app interactions
  • Setup and managed infrastructure for thousands of concurrent AI agents

Cofounder and Engineering Lead

Domino Labs
03.2023 - 04.2024
  • Company Overview: Los Angeles, CA
  • Lead the development of a complex data aggregation platform and associated interactive dashboard application
  • Delivered data visualization application to customers
  • Established Agile and DevOps practices to improve our development workflow
  • Los Angeles, CA

Senior DevOps Engineer

Blue Bite
08.2019 - 02.2024
  • Helped build a product that was acquired by a fortune 500 company
  • Creating, managing, and optimizing AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines
  • Creating IaC for new projects as well as converting existing infrastructure to IaC with Terraform
  • Auditing and improving Blue Bites cybersecurity(across AWS, Docker images, CircleCI, and more)
  • Database capacity planning, installation, configuration, performance monitoring as well as backup and data recovery
  • Improving and centralizing application and infrastructure logs using DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch, S3, and Glacier
  • Implementing AWS, Terraform, Docker, Elasticsearch, and CircleCI best practices
  • Monitored and optimized serverless and containerized applications built on Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Cloudfront, Step Function, Lambda and more.
  • Created and managing high-throughput ETL pipelines using DynamoDB, Lambda, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, and Kibana
  • Building and managing SOC2 type1 compliant SaaS
  • Managing pro-active monitoring/observability setup including DataDog and CloudWatch
  • Created and managed a high-throughput ETL pipeline using DynamoDB, Lambda, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.
  • Improved and centralized application and infrastructure logs using AWS Cloudwatch, S3, and Glacier.
  • Managed and optimized existing AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Operator

MetaPortal
04.2022 - 07.2023
  • Lead data engineering team
  • Coordinating economic research and data team pipelines
  • Architect and product manage new data analytics pipelines
  • Implemented basic DevOps practices to improve data team DevEx and velocity

CTO and Partner

Demolytics LLC
04.2019 - 04.2020
  • Company Overview: Montreal, Canada
  • Architected a network of microservices including an Apache Kafka and Elastic-Stack based data management system and associated cross-platform social trading application.
  • Managed and provisioned Google Cloud Platform services, including GKE, Cloud Functions.
  • Deployed a system of stateless and stateful Docker microservices, serverless functions and associated backup data stores(MongoDB and S3).
  • Implemented Elastic stack-based infrastructure/stack-security monitoring.
  • Evaluated and used DevOps tools including Jenkins X, Pachyderm, DCOS.
  • Montreal, Canada

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Software Engineering and Economics

McGill University

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Python
  • BASH Scripting
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • ELK Stack Beats
  • Airflow
  • Git/SVN
  • Docker/Docker-compose
  • RAG
  • JIRA/Agile/DevOps Methodology
  • Vector Databases
  • CircleCI/Jenkins/Travis(CI/CD)
  • AWS(S3, Lambda, EKS, etc)
  • GCP(Firebase,GCE)
  • Kubernetes
  • Sentry
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Azure OpenAI
  • CrewAI/LangGraph

Timeline

Lead Engineer & DevRel

Mixpeek
04.2025 - Current

Engineering Lead

Demolytics
04.2024 - 09.2024

Cofounder and Engineering Lead

Domino Labs
03.2023 - 04.2024

Operator

MetaPortal
04.2022 - 07.2023

Senior DevOps Engineer

Blue Bite
08.2019 - 02.2024

CTO and Partner

Demolytics LLC
04.2019 - 04.2020

Some College (No Degree) - Software Engineering and Economics

McGill University
PHILIP BANKIER