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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).