Devin Bost
AI Architect at IBM
Spring, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDevin Bost is an AI Architect with 11 years of experience designing and shipping production GenAI, retrieval, and recommender systems for Fortune 500 customers and startups alike. He combines deep IR and representation-learning expertise (ColBERT, T5 dual‑encoders, contrastive training) with pragmatic MLOps—deploying secure RAG/Text2SQL pipelines (OAuth2 + RBAC, TTFT <200 ms), NVIDIA inference stacks, and observability for air‑gapped enterprise environments. A hands‑on engineer and founder, he’s contributed to Apache Pulsar (Go functions and integration tests) and led zero‑downtime migrations and high‑scale streaming platforms that processed billions of messages per day. Devin bridges presales → POC → production, mentors teams, and blends entrepreneurial grit (running a tech‑savvy real estate business) with technical breadth across Python, SQL, C#, Go, and the Kubernetes ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
South Eugene High SchoolBrigham Young University-Idaho
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Github Skills (21)
messaging10
java10
javas10
go10
event-streaming10
pubsub10
apache-pulsar10
test-automation10
socket-io9
datetime9
aws-lambda9
package9
grpc9
socket9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pulsar
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 15 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Devin primarily contributed to the Apache Pulsar project by adding new functionalities and tests related to Go functions. They worked on integrating Go functions with the Java FunctionManager, creating integration tests for production-readiness. Their work involved modifying existing Java test code to incorporate Go-based tests and adding features like statistics and Prometheus integration. They also addressed build issues and fixed bugs in existing testing and permitting logic.
event-streamingpulsarmessaging-systemstreamingapache
devinbost/moonshot
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Automatic, semi-autonomous, adaptive personalization.
Contributions:1 review, 23 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 months
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