Erik Kringen
Lead AI Engineer - Tech Innovation
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Kringen is a Lead AI Engineer focused on bringing production-grade AI and cloud platforms to large enterprises, currently driving Tech Innovation at KPMG US. With two decades in IT and a decade of hands-on cloud, data, and DevOps leadership, he has designed and deployed secure, compliant Azure platforms for commercial, government, and healthcare clients using Kubernetes, Databricks, and CI/CD pipelines. He blends deep data engineering and architecture experience—from Teradata and SSAS to modern PaaS—and a pragmatic product mindset honed earlier in BI roles across retail and hospitality. Based in Knoxville, he pairs day-job cloud expertise with an electronics hobbyist’s curiosity, continuously learning and sharing new technologies. Notably, he has led efforts to operationalize customer-specific AI/analytics environments that scale while meeting rigorous compliance standards.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of Tennessee at MartinBachelor of Science (B.S.) Hospitality Administration/Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Hospitality Administration/Management at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (12)
microsoft-azure7
powershell7
arm7
azure7
pocketmine6
command-line-interface5
kubernetes-deployment5
helm4
microsoft4
spark3
kubernetes3
azure-cli2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kringen/kube-spark-cluster
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Spark Cluster Deployed on Kubernetes.
Contributions:1 review, 38 commits, 11 PRs in 3 months
kubernetesspark
kringen/homelab
Jan 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:230 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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