Ken King. Open to conversations
Engineer · San Francisco

Ken King.

Founding Engineer @ MASLOW Health

Agentic AI · Full-Stack Product · ex-AWS Bedrock

San Francisco, California

I build AI products end to end — from agent orchestration and model routing to the React frontends people actually use. Founding engineer at MASLOW Health, where I took a clinical AI platform from prototype to production. Before that, AWS Bedrock: product surfaces for Intelligent Prompt Routing, Flows, Prompt Optimization, and Agent Evaluations.

Currently open to
  • Full-time engineering roles — applied AI and full-stack product work, Bay Area or remote
  • Teams where AI ships — production systems with real users, real constraints, and real ownership
re:Invent 2024
Intelligent Prompt Routing
AWS Bedrock · production launch
Production
Clinical AI platform
MASLOW Health · prototype to a 3,000-patient clinic
Delivery
Release decoupling
10+ teams · 2+ weeks → hours
Agentic
Multi-agent orchestration
Postgres ledger · custom MCP · approval gates
AWS Bedrock
Flows · Prompt Optimization · Chat Playground
React/TypeScript · 12+ regions · GovCloud
Research
SafeSpace — HCII 2024
First author · Springer LNCS
Founding Engineer
NOV 2025 — NOW
MASLOW Health · San Francisco

Founding engineer building and operating a production clinical AI platform end to end: React/TypeScript web and Rust/Tauri desktop clients, Bedrock + Step Functions for long-running AI reporting workflows, and Postgres-backed multi-agent orchestration with a custom MCP server, approval gates, and multi-provider routing. HIPAA-compliant and EHR-integrated (FHIR / eClinicalWorks).

React / TypeScript Agentic platform AWS Bedrock Rust / Tauri
Software Development Engineer
JUL 2024 — NOV 2025
AWS · Bedrock · Santa Clara

Shipped frontend across Intelligent Prompt Routing (re:Invent 2024), Flows, Prompt Optimization, Chat Playground. Built the agent evaluation experience (later superseded by AgentCore). Drove staged rollouts across 12+ regions and GovCloud. Decoupled team-owned UI from a heavily shared monolith. Covered 24/7 on-call across Bedrock, MTurk, and Ground Truth.

React / TypeScript Console Sev2 on-call
SDE Intern — LLM Evaluation
2023
AWS · AI/ML Science Team

Post-ChatGPT, pre-Bedrock GA. Built a full-stack LLM evaluation POC — CDK-deployed (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Cognito), LangChain + custom orchestration, HuggingFace on SageMaker, Ground Truth private workforces.

SDE Intern — HIL Labeling
2022
AWS · AI/ML Science Team

Pre-ChatGPT era. HIL labeling work that later powered LLM RLHF. Designed a tile-based classification UI for Ground Truth, later productized. Shipped grid-line annotation behind a feature flag for Ground Truth Plus vendor workflows.

Graduate Research Assistant
2022 — 2024
VMI × Virginia Tech · Commonwealth Cyber Initiative

Lab's VR specialist — built the VR/Unity + MQTT integration for critical-infrastructure cybersecurity research (digital twin of a Southwest Virginia water treatment plant). Helped lead the lab's pivot to AI/LLM research. First-authored SafeSpace at HCII 2024 with Dr. Azab.

Graduate TA · VT National Security Institute · RTX Workforce Development Fellowship 2022 — 2024
Lead Engineer (Head of Product Development) · Vector Rideshare 2020 — 2021
Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern · Simon Computing (govt contracting) 2020
Undergraduate Research Assistant · VT Bradley ECE · UAV spectrum sharing 2019 — 2020
SafeSpace, the Smart Caretaker: An AI-Driven Safe and Comfortable Environment for the Well-Being of Alzheimer's and Dementia Patients
First author · HCII 2024 · Springer LNCS
Transforming SDOH Screening: Towards a General Framework for Transformer-based Prediction of Social Determinants of Health
M.S. Thesis · Virginia Tech
Enhanced Heartbeat Protocol for Near Real-Time Coordinated Spectrum Sharing
Co-author · Journal of Network and Computer Applications · 2025
Experiential Learning Through Immersive XR: Cybersecurity Education for Critical Infrastructures
Contributing · HCII 2024
EasyCaption: Investigating the Impact of Prolonged Exposure to Captioning on VR HMD on General Population
Contributing · HCII 2024
M.S. Computer Science
2022 — 2024
Virginia Tech
B.S. Computer Engineering
2018 — 2022
Virginia Tech

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