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Chris Loumeau

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Chris Loumeau

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, focusing on AI and DevOps

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Chris is ready for their next project!

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New York, USA

New York, USA

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Fox One Kafka Data Pipeline — Strimzi & EKS Engineered a Kubernetes-hosted real-time data pipeline for Fox One, developing Rust producers that streamed application data into Apache Kafka using Strimzi. The pipeline connected Kafka workloads with downstream Databricks processing, creating a scalable architecture for ingesting and processing streaming data.

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Fox One Streaming Infrastructure — AWS & Kubernetes Built production infrastructure supporting Fox One’s Next.js applications across web, Smart TV, and Xbox. Deployed containerized workloads on Kubernetes using AWS ECR, Helm and Kustomize for configuration, and ArgoCD-based GitOps for repeatable production deployments.

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Self-Hosted Gemma 4 — AKS, vLLM & FastAPI Deployed a self-hosted Gemma 4 inference platform on Azure Kubernetes Service using vLLM and a Python FastAPI service. Integrated OpenCode as the agentic coding harness, creating a scalable internal LLM environment that could expose GPU-backed inference to AI applications. Your résumé also documents this Gemma/vLLM/FastAPI work on AKS.

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Resy Reservation Bot — Rust, Docker & Kubernetes Built a high-performance reservation automation service in Rust designed to quickly secure high-demand NYC restaurant reservations. Containerized the application with Docker and deployed it on Kubernetes, giving the service a reliable, repeatable environment for running time-sensitive booking workflows.