Ken King. Open to full-time roles. Available now
Ken King

Ken King.

Software engineer. Previously on the Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker teams at AWS. Then co-founder and founding engineer of MASLOW Health: as its only full-time engineer, I built and shipped a clinical AI platform deployed at a 3,000-patient clinic.

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Built
The MASLOW platform: voice intake, AI reporting and EHR delivery. React/TypeScript and AWS (Bedrock, Step Functions, Lambda), plus a Rust/Tauri offline client for clinical research.
Before
Software development engineer at AWS, on Bedrock and SageMaker: Intelligent Prompt Routing, Flows, Agent Evaluations. Two AWS internships. M.S. Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
Writes
TypeScript, Python, React, AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions), Postgres. Rust for the desktop client.
Looking for
A full-time engineering role: applied AI or full-stack product, mid-to-senior individual contributor, at an established company or a funded startup. Bay Area, hybrid or remote.
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Ken King is a software engineer in the Bay Area with an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He was a software development engineer on the AWS Bedrock and SageMaker teams, building product features including the evaluation tooling for AI agents, then co-founded a healthcare AI startup and was its founding engineer and only full-time engineer, building and deploying a voice-based clinical intake platform with EHR integration. He’s looking for a mid-to-senior engineering role, at an established company or a funded startup, building AI-powered products or the applications around them, and is available now. kenk.ing
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Recently shipped
re:Invent 2024
Intelligent Prompt Routing
AWS Bedrock · production launch
Production
Clinical AI platform
MASLOW Health · prototype to a 3,000-patient clinic
Delivery
Release decoupling
Shared pipeline across teams · 2+ weeks → hours
Internal tooling
Agentic development platform
Custom MCP server · Postgres/pgvector memory · approval gates
AWS Bedrock
Flows · Prompt Optimization · Chat Playground
React/TypeScript · 12+ regions · GovCloud
Research
SafeSpace — HCII 2024
First author · Springer LNCS
Experience
Founding Engineer
NOV 2025 — NOW
MASLOW Health · San Francisco

Founding engineer and sole full-time engineer building and operating a production clinical AI platform end to end: React/TypeScript web and Rust/Tauri desktop clients, Bedrock + Step Functions for long-running AI reporting workflows, HIPAA-oriented and EHR-integrated (FHIR / eClinicalWorks). Separately, built the team’s internal agentic development platform: a custom MCP server, Postgres/pgvector memory, approval gates, and multi-provider routing for coding agents.

React / TypeScript Internal agent tooling AWS Bedrock Rust / Tauri
Software Development Engineer
JUL 2024 — NOV 2025
AWS · Bedrock · Santa Clara

Shipped frontend across Intelligent Prompt Routing (re:Invent 2024), Flows, Prompt Optimization, Chat Playground. Built the agent evaluation experience (later superseded by AgentCore). Drove staged rollouts across 12+ regions and GovCloud. Decoupled team-owned UI from a heavily shared monolith. Covered 24/7 on-call across Bedrock, MTurk, and Ground Truth.

React / TypeScript Console Sev2 on-call
SDE Intern — LLM Evaluation
2023
AWS · AI/ML Science Team

Post-ChatGPT, pre-Bedrock GA. Built a full-stack LLM evaluation POC — CDK-deployed (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Cognito), LangChain + custom orchestration, HuggingFace on SageMaker, Ground Truth private workforces.

SDE Intern — HIL Labeling
2022
AWS · AI/ML Science Team

Pre-ChatGPT era. HIL labeling work that later powered LLM RLHF. Designed a tile-based classification UI for Ground Truth, handed off to the team, who kept iterating on it. Shipped grid-line annotation behind a feature flag for Ground Truth Plus vendor workflows.

Graduate Research Assistant
2022 — 2024
VMI × Virginia Tech · Commonwealth Cyber Initiative

Lab's VR specialist — built the VR/Unity + MQTT integration for critical-infrastructure cybersecurity research (digital twin of a Southwest Virginia water treatment plant). Helped lead the lab's pivot to AI/LLM research. First-authored SafeSpace at HCII 2024 with Dr. Azab.

Graduate TA · VT National Security Institute · RTX Workforce Development Fellowship 2022 — 2024
Head of Product Development · Vector Rideshare 2020 — 2021
Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern · Simon Computing (govt contracting) 2020
Undergraduate Research Assistant · VT Bradley ECE · UAV spectrum sharing 2019 — 2020
Selected research
SafeSpace, the Smart Caretaker: An AI-Driven Safe and Comfortable Environment for the Well-Being of Alzheimer's and Dementia Patients
First author · HCII 2024 · Springer LNCS
Transforming SDOH Screening: Towards a General Framework for Transformer-based Prediction of Social Determinants of Health
M.S. Thesis · Virginia Tech
Enhanced Heartbeat Protocol for Near Real-Time Coordinated Spectrum Sharing
Co-author · Journal of Network and Computer Applications · 2025
Experiential Learning Through Immersive XR: Cybersecurity Education for Critical Infrastructures
Contributing · HCII 2024
EasyCaption: Investigating the Impact of Prolonged Exposure to Captioning on VR HMD on General Population
Contributing · HCII 2024
Education
M.S. Computer Science
2022 — 2024
Virginia Tech
B.S. Computer Science
2018 — 2021
Virginia Tech
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