# Joseph Krywicki > I wonder what i’m going to code today... Location: Lenexa, Kansas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josephkrywicki I'm a passionate Software Engineer that loves to learn new things. I've worked in the defense contracting industry, co-created a fintech startup, and now work in customer analytics. It's not complicated, I just really enjoy software. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Self Employed Jan 2023 – Present Maintained restful API services, OAuth2.0 authorization, and user permissions Created ETL pipelines for customer data and analytics Created and managed Mongo databases Led implementation of API backend (with python FastAPI and java springboot) Developed several APIs via AWS API-Gateway and AWS Lambdas Developed and implemented AWS Batch computing for long workloads Created & managed elasticsearch databases to produce frontend analytics graphics ### Senior Software Engineer @ Khoros Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Kansas, United States I worked on a team that allowed customers to upload data for use in Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) when calling Large Language Models. I implemented the microservice that would communicate with opensearch when performing a k-NN query, for RAG. I also was part of implementing the rest API (FastAPI) and various microservices (gRPC & python). All of the services ran on kubernetes. I aided in data ingestion by helping to implement various Dagster jobs such as PII redaction, web crawler (for usage in RAG), various cleanup jobs that ran on schedules, various opensearch indexing of embeddings. The various LLM's I have worked with are AWS Claude, Google Vertex (text-bison, gemini-pro, chat-bison), and OpenAI GPT. ### Software Engineer @ Khoros Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Kansas, United States While at Topbox, I worked on python based rest API for calls by the frontend. I also was part of designing and implementing client data ingestion with use of AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS Batch, AWS ECR, and AWS ECS. Much of the ingested data was processed with NLP models for PII redaction, taxonomy, zero-shot, and named entity recognition. ### Chief Software Architect @ Destiny Wealth Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Kansas City, Missouri Area I co-founded the startup where I worked as 1 of the 2 developers to setup all of the AWS infrastructure, a mobile app, a web site, and manage dev-ops. I worked in an agile style process to develop a cross-platform mobile application in the Xamarin framework. I worked extensively with AWS, utilizing services such as Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and ECS/ECR. I maintained a deployment/release management system for our Python serverless functions allowing us to utilize AWS cloud formation to roll-back or update AWS Lambdas. ### Software Engineer 3 @ L-3 Communications Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Greenville, Texas Maintained and extended software products designed in C, C++, & C#. Assisted in instructing foreign customers on operating & maintaining software developed by L-3 Communications. Created simulation software to be used in development & quality testing. Worked in IRaD (Internal Research and Development) with real-time communication systems interacting with various aircraft equipment. ### Test Engineer @ VT Miltope Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Performed quality testing on laptop keyboards to determine acceptability for military standards. Laid down framework to enable remote monitoring of program and interaction of stress-testing chambers (temperature, vibration, etc.) Ensured operational reliability and physical quality attributes of laptop computers Analyzed and evaluated various malfunctioning laptop components Responsible for submitting failure component reports to company database Wrote program to remove non-value-added drivers which improved laptop speed Soldered printer cables and circuit boards Obtained security clearance to work on government products and projects ## Education ### Bachelor of Software Engineering Auburn University Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephkrywicki --- Source: https://flows.cv/josephkrywicki JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josephkrywicki/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23