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Michael Williams

Career & Capability Map
26 years building infrastructure that makes complex systems reliable
MCP Infrastructure
RAG / GraphRAG
Memory OS
Agentic Systems
Domain-Driven Design
Enterprise AI Integration
Evaluation Harnesses
Career Timeline
Taam Ja' LLC
Founder & Principal Engineer
2024 — Present
AI research lab. Building the infrastructure layer that makes AI reliable — not demos, not prototypes.
Memory OS Apache AGE pgvector MCP Server GraphRAG Learning Factory
LLC Projects
Three-tier Memory OS with Invalidation Ripple
Custom MCP server exposing graph to Cursor
Learning Factory — MIT open-source release
Autonomous Chief-of-Staff agent (planning)
Key Wins
60% reduction in manual review time
45% MTTR reduction via MCP + App Insights
35% AI cost reduction via MCP proxy
AI SME for Cursor & Azure OpenAI adoption
GoEngineer
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
June 2024 — January 2026
First engineer to introduce AI into mission-critical systems. Built production RAG, custom MCP proxy, AI integration test frameworks.
Azure OpenAI RAG Pipeline FastMCP 2.0+ Azure AI Search Cursor Agent Mode C# / .NET Python
Willis Towers Watson
Software Developer
May 2016 — September 2023
7 years on the largest private Medicare marketplace in the US. Owned full stack — React to Azure SQL. Designed architectural patterns adopted org-wide.
Microservices CQRS DDD Bounded Contexts React C# .NET Azure SQL VoIP Integration
Architecture
Redux alternative — Context API + useReducer
Domain-focused micro-stores per module
RESTful API bounded context microservice
VoIP gateway → millions in revenue impact
Mentored junior devs to full productivity
Trust Signal
Last-resort engineer for production issues
Thousands of users, thousands of dollars
Led AWS migration of flagship Design Space
Built gigs-scale S3 + RDS migration systems
Cricut
Senior Software Engineer
March 2015 — March 2016
Primary developer for AWS cloud migration. Trusted as last resort for production fires affecting thousands of users.
AWS / S3 / RDS Node.js Mocha / shouldjs C# .NET
AmTrust North America
Software Developer III
May 2014 — March 2015
Bond quotes application. Pioneered CI/CD, UI test automation, and AES encryption for sensitive data compliance.
ASP.NET MVC AES Encryption CI/CD CasperJS KnockoutJS
Interaction Information Technology
Software Engineer
April 2010 — May 2014
HIPAA-compliant SaaS for behavioral health & human services. Clients included Mental Health Connection of Tarrant County, TX. Direct client liaison — full ownership.
HIPAA Compliance ASP.NET C# Behavioral Health SaaS
Microsoft
Operations Engineer — FTE
December 2000 — December 2008
8-year FTE. Built and operated Windows Stress Test automation across 60+ labs and thousands of machines. Created C#/ASP.NET web app as UI for lab automation infrastructure.
Large-Scale Automation Distributed Systems C# / ASP.NET Lab Infrastructure WTT
Scale
60+ testing labs across Microsoft campus
Thousands of machines under automation
20%+ increase in lab utilization
15%+ increase in test production
Redmond DNA — 8 years
Microsoft (via Comsys)
SDET II — Contract
April 2009 — November 2009
Built C#/.NET automated test report tooling for Forefront Security Performance team, extracting metrics from logs and generating Excel reports.
C# / .NET Test Automation Performance Testing
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Memory OS & Knowledge Layer
Three-tier Memory OS with PostgreSQL + Apache AGE + pgvector. Invalidation Ripple for dependent node propagation. Custom MCP server exposing graph to AI agents. Designed for robust global memory banks and truth-as-a-service architectures.
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MCP & Function Calling
Built custom MCP proxy server (FastMCP 2.0+) for cost optimization. Integrated Azure MCP Server with Cursor for autonomous production diagnosis — resulting in a 45% MTTR reduction. Deep expertise in Model Context Protocol implementation.
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Enterprise AI Integration
First engineer to bring AI into mission-critical operations at scale. Built production RAG pipelines, AI summarization engines yielding 60% time savings, and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation harnesses with admin observability metrics.
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Distributed Systems at Scale
8 years operating automation infrastructure across 60+ labs and thousands of machines. Architected event-driven systems using Azure Service Bus and Storage Queues. The discipline of reliable distributed systems forms the foundation of all AI implementations.
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Mentorship & AI Coaching
Served as AI SME driving organization-wide LLM adoption. Created prompt and context engineering resources for engineering and IT teams. Mentorship credited as career-defining by junior developers. Built Taam Ja' LLC as an extension of this coaching philosophy.
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Frontier Adaptation
Committed to the edge of AI infrastructure. Rapidly adapting to new frameworks and deploying cross-platform solutions. Actively expanding expertise across cloud ecosystems and advanced graph reasoning protocols (GraphRAG, Agentic orchestration).