# Kyle Handy > Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer Location: Helena, Montana, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylehandy I’m a full-stack software engineer working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems. My experience centers on designing and operating low-latency, highly available platforms and data-intensive microservice architectures where performance, resilience, and developer experience are first-class concerns. My work spans the stack—from backend services and ML pipelines to impactful frontend contributions—and continues to expand into DevOps and platform engineering. I value engineering rigor and sustainable delivery, and I consistently advocate for practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, test automation, and iterative development that favor progress and learning over perfection. I’m at my best when confronting ambiguous problems and shaping them into practical, reliable solutions. I enjoy selecting and combining the right tools and techniques for the job—whether the goal is reducing complexity, improving user experience, increasing data throughput, or strengthening system reliability. I’m known as a fast learner, a thoughtful executor, and a steady contributor in high-impact environments. Beyond work, I invest myself in pursuits that reflect the same principles. Sports play a central role in my life—I play and coach basketball, soccer, and golf—and they continually reinforce lessons around preparation, adaptability, and teamwork. I take on hands-on DIY projects at home—framing, drywall, finish work, plumbing, landscaping, and woodworking—because I’m motivated by seeing complex, tangible problems through to completion. Building things from the ground up reinforces persistence, disciplined problem-solving, and a respect for craftsmanship. I’m a proud father of three, and I’m deeply committed to my children’s well-being and growth. Parenthood has strengthened my patience, accountability, and long-term perspective, and it informs how I think about building systems meant to be dependable and enduring. Oh—and one more thing… GO SEAHAWKS. 🏈 ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Lively, Inc. Jan 2022 – Present | Remote Full Stack Engineer — Benefits Management & Payments Processing At Lively, I focus on building systems that streamline benefits management and payments processing, delivering both highly reliable infrastructure and innovative AI-driven solutions. I lead efforts in Software Development Automation, using AI agents to automate the full software lifecycle: mining business intelligence, gathering context, defining requirements, designing systems, implementing, testing, reviewing, and deploying solutions. These initiatives have accelerated development cycles while improving consistency and quality. In AI engineering, I build and deploy AI agents leveraging modern technologies including VectorDB + RAG for knowledge bases, Vercel AI SDK, DeepEval, OpenAI Responses API, AWS Bedrock, and real-time voice APIs. These agents enhance both internal workflows and customer-facing applications. I also lead the integration of payments processing systems, including Automated Clearing House (ACH) and card-based transactions, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable payment operations. ### Senior Software Engineer @ SoFi Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Helena, Montana Software Engineer / Technical Lead — Financial Technology Worked across core fintech domains including Lending (mortgage, personal loans, student loan refinance), Banking, Payments, Investing, and Identity. Designed and operated low-latency, highly available distributed systems supporting customer-facing and internal platforms. Built JVM-based Spring Boot microservices deployed on Kubernetes, leveraging Kafka, Redis, SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL), and NoSQL to support scalable, event-driven architectures. Applied machine learning to risk mitigation and decisioning, developing models with scikit-learn and deploying via AWS SageMaker. Advanced engineering quality through CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and platform engineering on AWS. Contributed across the stack with reactive frontend applications built using React, TypeScript, Redux, paired with reactive backends leveraging WebFlux. Served as a Technical Lead, establishing Scrum practices, guiding architectural design, and mentoring engineers. ### Software Developer @ Agile Data Solutions, Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Missoula, MT Hit the ground running with a partially implemented data collection tool. The tool is purposed for gathering files, emails, email attachments, etcetera that are found to be relevant from a variety of input locations. Target clientele are lawyers looking to automate the discovery process, however other types of clientele have shown interest. I was contracted to implement highly concurrent processing and advanced document import systems (Email Datastore input, Optical Character Recognition, to name a few) to increase speed and breadth of search. Talents developed: Parallel programming; GUI design/implementation; Database Design; Optical Character Recognition; reading-from/writing-to Outlook Personal Storage files (.pst); Startup Culture Environments/Platforms: C# in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate - .NET Framework 4.5; SQLite data services; Github Source Control; ### Intern - Technical @ F5 Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Liberty Lake, Washington Design and implementation of networking-equipment resource management system. Development in multiple environments and platforms. Practice in collaborative development tactics and development cycles. Talents developed: Database Design; REST/ODATA API development; ASP.NET w/ Bootstrap web development; AGILE software development; Managing an office lifestyle. Enviroments/Platforms: C# in Visual Studio 2013 professional; Entity Framework 6 with LINQ; Python 2.7 in PyCharm professional; Data services in Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL; Perforce Source Control; ### Test Suite Automation Intern @ AssetWorks LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Spokane Valley, Washington Building quality assuring web application test modules for a large, asset-based, account-driven web service. Talents developed: Efficient C# programming; HTML/CSS object manipulation; Web Driver programming. Environments/Platforms: Visual Studio 2010 professional. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Accelitec Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bellingham, Washington Build service automation for .NET environment. Domain-specific implementation of Microsoft Team Foundation with Team Foundation Server using TFS Build. Talents developed: Build system design; .NET frameworking and architecture; Abstract problem solving. Environments/Platforms: Visual Studio 2012 Professional; TFS Build. ### Sales Associate @ Pacific Paint and Decorating Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Ferndale, Washington Paint and home decorating product sales and servicing at Benjamin Moore retailer. Daily interactions with customers, in person and on phone, retail and contractor alike. Product decision and decoration counseling. ### Construction Worker @ Handy Homes LLC Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Whatcom County, Washington Labor in construction of high-end residential homes. Varying duties from foundations, framing, roofing, siding, finishing and more. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science University of Montana Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Gonzaga University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-handy-2059049a --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylehandy JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylehandy/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22