Kit Pearson
Staff AI Platform Engineer (Founder)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Pearson is a founder and CTO with 13 years of engineering experience who specializes in architecting cost-efficient, secure, production-grade AI and ML systems. He has repeatedly turned expensive prototypes into profitable SaaS—most recently cutting LLM inference costs from $300 to $13 per user while preserving hours-of-use engagement and engineering reliability. Kit blends hands-on coding (Python, TypeScript, FastAPI) with deep infrastructure expertise across AWS, container orchestration, IaC, and vector search to deliver sub-200ms p95 latency and 99.99% uptime. He’s led teams from small startups to 75-engineer orgs, driving hiring, standards, and SOC2-ready security posture. Notably, his pragmatic focus on AI economics and multi-tier model routing demonstrates an uncommon emphasis on both technical excellence and unit-level business viability.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Ruby Ruby on Rails and JavaScript Web Application Development, Certificate in Ruby Ruby on Rails and JavaScript Web Application Development at Turing School of Software & DesignPhotography, Photography at Santa Monica CollegeEnvironmental Design, Environmental Design at Otis College of Art and Design
English
Github Skills (78)
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package-manager10
binaries10
homebrew10
administration10
shell9
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sublime-text8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kpearson/kpearson.github.io
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:61 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
cluhring/the_pivot
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:192 commits, 30 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 month
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