resume.json

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    "name": "Ido Samuelson",
    "label": "Engineering Executive & Software Architect · Agentic-AI Engineering · Rust / Nix",
    "image": "https://gravatar.com/userimage/69310917/d2ecd272a3be58d58eed9212bbe44f40.jpeg?size=256",
    "email": "ido.samuelson@gmail.com",
    "phone": "7204537927",
    "summary": "Seasoned Software Engineering Executive and architect with 20+ years across eCommerce, fintech, and defense, proven in scaling and leading engineering teams. VP of Engineering at Jet (first employee, $3.3B Walmart acquisition), Technology Director at EPAM (Directed a team of 100+ engineers), and Principal Cloud Architect driving cloud strategy. Now building Rust and Nix systems with agentic-AI workflows. Passionate about advanced technologies, mentoring teams, and strategic solutions.",
    "location": {
      "countryCode": "US",
      "address": "Denver, Colorado · Mountain Time",
      "city": "Denver"
    },
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    {
      "name": "Ukon",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer | Cyber Insurance",
      "startDate": "2024-12",
      "endDate": "2025-08",
      "summary": "Mentored junior engineers. Leveraged agentic AI to build Rust-based product features , immutable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD using Pulumi and TypeScript for safe multi-environment deployments.",
      "highlights": [
        "Agentic AI | Rust | Nix | Google Cloud | Pulumi"
      ],
      "url": "https://ukon.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sky360",
      "position": "Head Software Engineering | Management Team | Volunteer | Open Source",
      "startDate": "2022-05",
      "endDate": "2024-05",
      "summary": "Led open source engineering team of over 20 contributers building an open-source, multi-sensor robotic system to observe and track UAPs. Responsible for overall software architecture.",
      "highlights": [
        "Agentic AI | rust | C++ | Python | nixOS | ros2 | openMCT",
        "software architecture",
        "world-wide community with over 2500 members"
      ],
      "url": "https://sky360.org"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aptiv PLC ($APTV)",
      "position": "Principal Cloud Architect | Executive | Automotive",
      "startDate": "2022-03",
      "endDate": "2023-03",
      "summary": "Spearheaded strategic cloud architecture and drove innovation initiatives as technical executive, focusing on 5-10 year future projections for compute, real-time cloud (sub-ms latency), network (including 6G and satellites), storage, and AI technologies.",
      "url": "https://aptiv.com",
      "highlights": [
        "cloud architecture",
        "Azure | AWS | GCP | On-Premise"
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    {
      "name": "EPAM Systems ($EPAM)",
      "position": "Director Technology Solutions | Consulting Firm",
      "startDate": "2020-02",
      "endDate": "2022-02",
      "summary": "Directed a team of 100+ engineers, driving technology strategy, innovation, and modernization for Walmart's SRE and Health & Wellness (Clinics and Pharmacies). Provided SRE leadership that delivered over $40M in operational cost savings within 3 months. Key responsibilities included architecture design, coaching, and mentoring.",
      "highlights": [
        "software architecture",
        "Azure | On-Premise",
        "Java | Kotlin | Go | F# | NodeJS"
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      "url": "https://epam.com"
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    {
      "name": "The Reserve Trust Company",
      "position": "Head Of Engineering | FinTech",
      "startDate": "2019-08",
      "endDate": "2020-03-31",
      "summary": "Led the technology strategy for a Trust Financial Institution, overseeing all engineering and IT efforts. Provided executive leadership, driving the development and implementation of regulatory technology solutions. Ensured robust IT security and managed both AWS and on-premise environments. Key responsibilities included strategic hiring and guiding the company through its startup phase.",
      "highlights": [
        "AWS | On-Premise",
        "Go, Rust, NodeJS",
        "IT security"
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      "name": "Self Employed",
      "position": "Advisor / Consultant | Coaching | Startup Consulting",
      "startDate": "2017-03-01",
      "endDate": "2019-07-31",
      "summary": "Consulting to companies needing strategy, technology, architecture and growth guidance",
      "highlights": []
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      "name": "Jet.com",
      "position": "VP Engineering | Architect/Programmer | First Employee | eCommerce",
      "startDate": "2013-08-01",
      "endDate": "2016-09-30",
      "summary": "Core Architecture Team; Initiated many early projects; Worked on Hiring OKR; Lead Internal Tooling and Productivy Team. Led to production: Jet Insider Game; eCommerce Crawler v1; microservices Dev/CI/CD platform (v1 and v2); cloud multi-region replication and geo redundancy",
      "highlights": [
        "cloud architecture",
        "Azure",
        "F# | .NET | NodeJS",
        "Jet.com sold to walmart for $3.3B"
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      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/jet-com/"
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      "name": "icix",
      "position": "Principal Software Engineer | Lead | Architect/Programmer | Supply Chain",
      "startDate": "2012-12-31",
      "endDate": "2013-12-31",
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      "highlights": [],
      "url": "https://www.icix.com"
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    {
      "name": "Hi5",
      "position": "Princiapl Software Engineer | Lead | Gaming Social Network",
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      "endDate": "2012-12",
      "summary": "",
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      "name": "BDB Payroll Service",
      "position": "Principal Software Engineer | Architect/Programmer | Payroll/HR",
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      "endDate": "2011-12",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/viventium/"
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    {
      "name": "4D Security Solutions, Inc.",
      "position": "Chief Software Architect | Lead | Architect/Programmer | Defense",
      "startDate": "2007-12",
      "endDate": "2009-12",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "mPrest",
      "position": "Project Manager | Manager/Lead | Architect/Programmer | Defense",
      "startDate": "2006-12",
      "endDate": "2007-12",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "",
      "url": "https://www.mprest.com"
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    {
      "name": "Israeli Air Force",
      "position": "Sergeant — Light Helicopter Technician",
      "startDate": "1994-01",
      "endDate": "1997-01",
      "summary": "",
      "highlights": []
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      "organization": "School of AI",
      "position": "AI: Dean - Denver",
      "startDate": "2018-12",
      "endDate": "2019-12",
      "highlights": []
    },
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      "organization": "Sky360 non profit",
      "position": "Head Software Engineering | Open Source",
      "startDate": "2022-05",
      "endDate": "2024-05",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "organization": "NixOS",
      "position": "Contributor | Open Source",
      "startDate": "2023-01",
      "highlights": [],
      "url": "https://nixos.org/"
    },
    {
      "organization": "NixPkgs",
      "position": "Contributor | Open Source",
      "startDate": "2023-01",
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      "url": "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs"
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      "institution": "Champlain College",
      "area": "Business/Computers",
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      "startDate": "1998-12",
      "endDate": "2001-12",
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    { "name": "CI/CD & Release Engineering" },
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      "stars": 50,
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      "tests": "200K+ checks",
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      "name": "claude-code-proxy",
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