Ken Devoe Email & Phone Number

Cupertino, CA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Part of the launch team for AWS's Bedrock service which provides managed Generative AI solutions to customers
• API and frontend support for hosting LLM models such as Amazon's Titan and Anthropic's Claude
• Region expansion for frontend and control plane infrastructure to Singapore

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Fine-tuned and evaluated performance of LLM's for document analysis
• Model selection and initializing production deployment of LLM
• Data cleaning and preparation for model training

Ehime, Japan

• Team lead for Aerospace material qualifications for the Boeing 787 program - Led effort to reduce inventory scrap by over 1 year with innovative XPS characterization and multi-modal stress testing
• Developed test plans, analyzed test reports and led statistical analysis with JMP to qualify new materials for Aerospace AS9100 standards
• Full Japanese language immersion - Selected as full time ex-pat member after successful completion of 1.5 year OJT program focusing on Japanese engineering and quality methodology

Tacoma, Washington, United States

• Engineering team leader for both aerospace and space carbon fiber product development. Developed fiberglass fabric and carbon fiber epoxy tape for Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) for programs such as Boeing, EPIC.
• Used Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize process conditions improving production throughput by 50%

Puyallup, WA

• Responsible for carbon fiber prepreg product design and manufacture based on customer requirements for sporting good and industrial products.
• Provided daily customer support regarding material processing and new product development.
• First employee in a company of 50K+ to be selected for 1.5 year on-the-job training program in Japan

Tacoma, Washington, United States

• Qualified new sources for raw materials including: silicone release liner, epoxy resins, thermoplastics and carbon fiber fabrics
• Performed failure investigations using characterization techniques like FTIR and HPLC. Implemented corrective actions and reduce product defect rate by over 50%

Two publications including one as first author.Investigated the properties of SrO dopants in tri-calcium phosphate materials for bone tissue engineering.

Master Of Science - Ms, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 4.0 / 4.0

Probability and Statistics, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Ethics in AI, MLOps

Bachelors - Bs, Computer Science, 4.0 / 4.0

Analysis of Algorithms, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Architecture, Python and C++ Programming, Parallel Programming.

Bachelors - Bs, Materials Science And Engineering, 3.9 / 4.0

Activities and Societies: President - Material Advantage Club, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, University Honors College