About John
Senior enterprise integration architect delivering production LLM and agentic AI on AWS and GCP for regulated enterprises. 18 years at IBM Global Business Services (Federal) leading integration and modernization for mission-critical programs. 8+ years independent GCP production data engineering for regulated data pipelines in life-sciences-adjacent domains. Hands-on production LLM and agentic AI engineering since 2023 — multi-model orchestration, hybrid retrieval, and EU AI Act-aware sovereign-cloud patterns.
Integration-first mindset applied to AI: I treat LLM and agentic deployments as systems-integration problems — data flow, orchestration, governance — not research problems. Comfortable in compliance-constrained environments where hallucinations, data sovereignty, and audit trails are non-negotiable.
Recent independent R&D — hybrid RAG + multi-model LLM orchestration on Apple Silicon. Explores local-inference optimization, retrieval routing, and persona-scoped knowledge firewalls.
Operating through Oivallus AI, LLC (Washington state, formed April 2026); underlying independent consulting continuous since 2017. Finnish Oy transition scheduled post-July 2026 via the MSA affiliate-assignment clause — engagement continuity through the cross-border founder transition, not a restart. Remote-only delivery. AWS Solutions Architect – Associate and AWS Machine Learning Engineer – Associate certified; AWS Generative AI fast-track planned.
Milestone-based invoicing preferred.
English
Native or bilingual
Finnish
Basic
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Oivallus AI, LLCPrincipal ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITApril 2026 - Today (2 months)Redmond, United StatesIndependent multi-cloud architecture and AI engineering practice. Operating entity Oivallus AI, LLC (Washington state) formed 2026. Finnish Oy transition scheduled post-July 2026 via MSA assignment clause for EU client continuity.Production GCP data engineering for regulated data pipelines in life-sciences-adjacent domains. BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, IAM. Eight-year continuous engagement with active client through 2026.Production LLM and agentic AI engineering. Multi-model orchestration across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Mistral. Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vector + cross-encoder re-ranking with reciprocal rank fusion). Persona-scoped knowledge architecture and retrieval routing with confidence-threshold fallback.AWS integration-led AI architecture: Bedrock (Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails), Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, SageMaker, Glue, Lake Formation. EU AI Act-aware sovereign-cloud patterns for regulated enterprise workloads.Local-inference optimization on Apple Silicon: MLX for Whisper on Metal GPU, PyTorch MPS for embedding and re-ranking pipelines, content-hash embedding cache for cold-start elimination.Milestone-based invoicing preferred.
- IBMSolutions Architect & Technical LeadDEFENSE AND MILITARYFebruary 2022 - April 2026 (4 years and 2 months)Redmond, United StatesTechnical lead for a high-priority, 1B-dollar-class ERP modernization initiative within the Department of Defense. Engineered data orchestration and automated reporting frameworks replacing manual tracking with real-time, data-driven visibility into cross-program risks and release dependencies.System integration: designed and deployed automated contention matrices and data pipelines to track delivery-level conflicts across UAT, regression testing, and knowledge-transfer cycles. Significant reduction in manual overhead.Governance and risk: built and maintained the Integrated Master Schedule for a portfolio of high-visibility special projects. Automated variance analysis and risk integration to support executive-level decision-making.Modernization: architected the transition from legacy manual processes to modern, automated governance systems across complex, regulated environments.
- IBMSolutions Architect & Systems IntegratorDEFENSE AND MILITARYFebruary 2008 - February 2022 (14 years)Redmond, United StatesPrimary technical architect for a major enterprise Earned Value Management PMO. Owned architectural standards and ANSI/EIA-748 compliance across a portfolio of high-visibility federal and international government programs.Automation and performance: designed and deployed a custom Microsoft Project automation toolsuite that reduced processing time for 15,000+ line schedules to under one minute. Saved thousands of manual hours across multiple large-scale federal contracts.Executive visibility: architected an enterprise leadership portal integrating financial, staffing, and critical-path data from MS Project into SQL-backed web dashboards — single source of truth for program health across the public-sector portfolio.Platform engineering: deployed a WebSphere-based reporting consolidation platform with secure SSO and DB2 backend, unifying labor forecasting, cost and billing margins, and earned-value performance data into a single dashboard framework.
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Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services (AWS)2026
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – AssociateAmazon Web Services (AWS)2026