Gus Kaechelin Email & Phone Number

North Andover, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, MA

• Experiential AI Lead and Innovation Center of Excellence
• Currently serving as an evangelist and advocate for experiential AI and Machine Learning technology across Publicis Group agencies. Activities focus on Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Spent the last 3 years designing and implementing a multi-tenant AI agent platform which allows for the definition and deployment of LLM-based agents independent of LLM vendor. The platform automatically manages a FIFO.
• Serving as the VCoE Engineering Lead and Consulting Architect for all internal Publicis groups considering implementing voice skills on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant – responsible for design and engineering of many.
• Member of the Amazon's Alexa Developer Advisory Council – an invitation-only group of representatives working with internal Amazon Alexa leadership to define the direction of Alexa development

Boston, MA

• Client Engagement - Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, OH
• Served as lead architect and engineer for Goodyear’s three B2C e-commerce sites. Goodyear was the first tire manufacturer to sell tires directly to consumers online and as such, I was involved in designing and.
• The innovative platform quickly exceeded all expectations and changed the tire manufacturing industry, forcing all major tire manufacturers to follow suit. By the end of my project tenure, the site had exceeded several.
• Integration APIs and endpoints included distributed order/installation/service management (2000+ corporate-owned and privately owned installers), distributed order fulfillment via national warehouse network, credit.
• Solution is idempotent and fault-tolerant with decoupled order queuing and unassisted retry processing until success acknowledgement
• Site won the 2016 MITX (Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange) “Best B2C Technology” Award

Greater Boston Area

• Implemented server-side process engine using Jersey (JAX-RS) to handle all REST-based service requests from mobile POS clients. Process engine allows for flexible backend service definition using JSON to describe.
• Responsible for redesign and implementation of customer data import mechanism. New process efficiently calculated deltas in the data and improved overall data import performance by more than 500%.
• Designed and implemented mission-critical API which integrates both the OneView mobile POS client and the POS server with Hybris' B2C eCommerce Suite. Commercial integration solution is delivered as a custom Hybris.

Boston, MA

• Lead engineer tasked with architecting and supporting 60+ instance Amazon EC2 topology supporting 40,000+ daily active users of mobile game applications with over 8,000,000 user installs.
• Responsible for design and implementation of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch instrumentation, Amazon SQS message queuing, and Amazon Route 53 DNS implementation.
• Designed and implemented Python/Tornado-based backend supporting hundreds of concurrent players of flagship Bingo and Slots mobile games.
• Tasked with both scheduled and emergency releases of server code to production environment.
• Utilized Python to implement GCM and APNS mobile push notification pushing 10,000+ messages a day.
• Implemented all Apple iStore, Google Play, and Facebook mobile in-app purchasing for all LuckyLabs games.

Cambridge, MA

• Sixth employee and one of the three original engineers tasked with creating WebLayers Center - a java-based, enterprise-grade SOA and IT governance solution.
• Worked directly with the CTO in determining product functionality and setting technical direction for the company as a whole.
• Responsible for all aspects of product architecture and much of the implementation of the entire suite of WebLayers commercial software products.
• Designed and implemented WebLayers commercial product architecture which consisted of a multi-threaded, SOAP service framework upon which all server-side web services are based. Current java-based server implementation.
• Responsible for design and implementation of WebLayers multi-threaded conformance testing engine. Engine was designed for performance and scalability. Also responsible for identifying and addressing all performance and.
• Implemented Web Service Security (WS-Security) specification for SOAP-based authentication and authorization. Integrated WS-Security implementation with generic application server containers using servlet filters and.

Waltham, MA

• Member of the core engineering team responsible for defining all aspects of architecture and functionality for Novell exteNd Director 5.0 - a commercial, Java-based, enterprise-class Portal and XML/Web Service.
• Responsible for design and implementation of exteNd Director’s Portlet 1.0 portal container. This container serves as the underlying architecture for all of exteNd Director’s portal and portlet/user communication.
• Responsible for API design specifications for new functionality, determining the best approach/technology, and implementing the API. New functionality often required both low-level API implementation and GUI design.
• Responsible for refining the WebDAV protocol (RFC 2518) and assuring the protocol’s industry-wide platform interoperability as a member of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) WebDAV Interoperability Group.
• Designed and implemented exteNd Director’s WebDAV server which provided standard access to our underlying Content Management System.
• Worked on a small design team for a Content Management System and the associated Java API for use with our portal technology. This cross-platform, cross-database Content Management System shipped with exteNd Director.

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

• Client - Brown University - Providence, RI
• Served as technical team lead and lead developer designing and implementing an Alumni Biographical Selection and Reporting System.
• Responsible for user requirement definition, detailed technical specifications, server-side stored procedure development, and extensive Powerbuilder 5.0 PFC programming.
• Designed and implemented application which took advantage of distributed Powerbuilder features allowing for asynchronous report generation, load balancing, and database transaction pooling.Client - John Hancock Mutual.
• Served as lead developer designing and implementing an n-tier Class Action Lawsuit Management System.
• Responsible for extensive Powerbuilder 5.0 PFC programming as well as Sybase SQL Server stored procedure development.