Devin Patterson

Platform Engineering Leader | AI Infrastructure

Miami, FL

Professional Summary

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience driving AI-first transformation in platform engineering. Proven track record building scalable infrastructure at AWS, Cisco, and Abbott Labs. Deep expertise in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and emerging AI/ML infrastructure. Currently leading platform engineering teams while pioneering AI-assisted development workflows that have achieved 20% reduction in development time.

Areas of Expertise

AI Infrastructure & MLOps
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
Platform Engineering
Cloud Architecture (AWS)
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code
DevOps & SRE
Technical Leadership
AI-Assisted Development
LLM Integration & Prompt Engineering

Work Experience

Manager, Platform Engineering

Cisco

November 2022 - Present
  • Lead platform engineering team supporting FedRAMP High infrastructure for Webex Government, ensuring compliance and operational excellence
  • Drove multi-team coordination for Kafka infrastructure modernization serving 200+ microservices with standardized migration runbooks and rollback procedures
  • Pioneered AI-first engineering practices, integrating LLM-powered workflows that reduced development and troubleshooting time by 20%
  • Built custom MCP servers enabling AI agents to interact with Kafka, Jira, and Confluence for automated operations
  • Led AI capability building program across 3 teams, training 20+ engineers on LLM integration and AI-assisted development

Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

June 2021 - November 2022
  • Guided enterprise clients through large-scale migration programs, including a 22-data center migration for a major energy-sector client
  • Delivered AWS service deployments, including local zone expansion, to improve performance and availability
  • Expanded expertise into the AWS Analytics community, supporting analytics infrastructure at scale for financial services clients
  • Partnered with customer leadership to stabilize analytics workloads and ensure operational continuity in regulated industries

Cloud Operations Manager

Abbott Labs

March 2018 - March 2021
  • Directed cloud operations during COVID-19, leading design and delivery of APIs transmitting test results to the CDC within 24 hours
  • Earned Abbott Leadership Award for critical pandemic-related infrastructure delivery
  • Migrated STARLIMS customers from private data centers to AWS, improving uptime and achieving HIPAA compliance

AI Experience

Engineering leader driving AI-first transformation in platform engineering. Hands-on experience building AI tooling, developing MCP servers, and leading team upskilling in generative AI practices.

AI Skills

AI-Assisted Development & Pair Programming
Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration
Agentic AI Architecture
Multi-Agent Orchestration
AI Model Evaluation & Selection
AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis

AI Tools & Technologies

Claude (Anthropic)
GPT-4 (OpenAI)
LangChain
CrewAI
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Windsurf/Cascade IDE

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Sciences

Florida International University

Associate in Arts in Business Administration

Miami-Dade College

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS

AWS Certified Developer – Professional

AWS

AWS Certified Security Specialty

AWS

AWS Certified Analytics Specialty

AWS

AWS Certified Networking Specialty

AWS

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

Georgia Tech – Professional Certificate in Python Programming

Georgia Tech