Josef Butts
Technical Principal at Cognizant
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Butts is a Technical Principal with 9 years of engineering experience and a 7+ year focus on software and emerging GenAI systems, currently leading a cross-functional effort to build a reusable Gen AI bot framework. He has designed and deployed production AI chatbots using LangChain and LlamaIndex, containerized data ingestion pipelines feeding Qdrant vector stores, and migrated React/Next.js apps into AI-driven experiences. His background spans serverless architectures, infra-as-code, and DevOps practices from roles at Autodesk, Nike, Contino and DXC, enabling him to bridge ML, cloud, and engineering delivery. Josef mentors teams, champions technical excellence, and brings a rare combination of musical pedagogy and engineering — a history as a music instructor and adjunct professor that informs his collaborative, creative approach to problem solving. Notably, he pairs hands-on implementation of RAG and LLM agents with pragmatic production concerns like data management and deployment efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Music Double bass, Bachelor’s Degree Music Double bass at The University of Louisiana at LafayetteSoftware engineering , Software engineering at Operation SparkMasters Music, Masters Music at University of New OrleansDoctor of Musical Arts Music Performance, Doctor of Musical Arts Music Performance at The University of Texas at AustinComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
English
Github Skills (21)
nodejs8
testing7
ajax7
javascript7
browser7
tdd7
bdd7
test-framework7
sun6
react6
http-client6
lgbt6
test-runner4
django4
test-automation4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JosefButts/waterGripes
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
leakypipes
Contributions:20 pushes, 38 branches in 10 days
JosefButts/gitManipulations
May 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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