Summary
Casey Cole is a PhD-trained Sr. AI Engineer with nine years of experience delivering end-to-end AI/ML systems in healthcare, currently enabling GenAI and interoperability at Rhapsody after leading platform efforts at Novant Health. He combines hands-on engineering—building agentic LLM applications (React, FastAPI, LangGraph), Databricks and AKS MLOps pipelines, and Azure AI infra—with technical leadership of multiple cross-functional delivery teams. Casey architected an LLM observability and “LLM-as-a-judge” framework and established organizational AI Trust & Safety aligned to NIST AIF and OWASP, turning governance into deployable controls. His background spans academic research in computational biology and pattern recognition to practical production forecasting and clinical risk models, giving him rare depth across research, product, and operations. He’s particularly focused on making generative AI useful and auditable in regulated healthcare settings while accelerating adoption through training and platform tooling.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of South Carolina