# Johannes du Plessis

> Applied AI @ LangChain

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johannesduplessis

Building cool stuff @ LangChain

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Applied AI @ LangChain
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer II @ Envoy Advanced Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Sydney, NSW
• Designed and built a scalable AI Proxy Server in TypeScript, orchestrating requests to multiple model providers (AWS Bedrock, OpenAI).
• Engineered the API layer featuring context retrieval from vector databases and tool-calling capabilities.
• Contributed to the backend services powering a high-volume compliance system that processes over 50% of national construction approvals.

### Software Integration Engineer @ IDEMIA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Integrated and deployed components for Australia's National Fingerprint Identification System, a critical, high-availability infrastructure system.
• Managed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for secure deployments to on-premise servers, ensuring system interoperability and reliability.

### Software Engineer @ Biometix
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Developed a Python-based Flask API to serve and evaluate multiple biometric recognition models against secure datasets.
• Packaged and deployed the service as offline Docker containers for high-security government agency environments.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Infosys
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Engineered backend services using Node.js and Express.js for a high-volume automated calculation engine.
• Designed and implemented complex MongoDB aggregation pipelines for a system processing over $500M in daily payments.


## Education
### Master of Computer Science specialising in Artificial Intelligence
Monash University

### Bachelor of Engineering in Network and Software Engineering in Computer Software Engineering
University of Canberra

### Northern Territory Certificate of Education
Palmerston Senior College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johannes117
- GitHub: https://github.com/johannes117/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11