Snapshot
- Target roles
- Senior Data Platform Engineer, AI Ingestion Engineer, Streaming Data Engineer
- Work authorization
- U.S. citizen; no sponsorship required now or in the future
- Location
- Orlando, FL / Remote
- Time zone
- Eastern Time
- Work model
- Remote, Orlando hybrid, Central Florida hybrid
- Engagement types
- W2 contract, contract-to-hire, full-time
- Core stack
- Azure, Kafka, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, CI/CD
- Availability
- Immediate for recruiter screens and new roles
- Clearance
- No active security clearance claimed
Submission Facts
Additional fields not covered in the Snapshot above.
- Name
- Nkosi Felix
- Title
- Senior Data Platform Engineer
- Work authorization
- U.S. citizen / U.S. person for work-authorization and export-control screening; no employer sponsorship required now or in the future
- Notice period
- Available immediately
- Background check
- Employment verification/background check available through standard employer process
- Remote readiness
- Available to work from a secure home workspace on company-issued equipment
- Interview availability
- Weekdays, Eastern Time; flexible for recruiter screens
- Submission
- Please confirm client, role, location, rate/salary range, and permission before submitting
Start here
- Primary resume — Senior Data Platform / AI Ingestion
- Forward-Deployed resume — tailored for AI infrastructure roles
- GetBetterAI — live product with screenshots and clear limits
- Ask about my work — get answers with source links
- Skills in action — see what I build and how I work
- Project labs — small data workflow examples
- Live Data Integrations — resilient external data integrations (weather and currency)
- GitHub — source code and public repositories
Submission note
Before submitting, please confirm the client, role, location, compensation range, and Nkosi's permission.
Forward-Deployed / AI Infrastructure Fit
Nkosi’s strongest experience is backend/platform engineering in enterprise environments: controlled ingestion, document/PDF infrastructure, Graph/SharePoint intake, Kafka/PostgreSQL services, validation routing, stakeholder-safe automation, and public, testable systems. The Forward-Deployed resume emphasizes translating ambiguous workflows into bounded, testable systems.
Relevant experience:
- NBCU deterministic Python ingestion service for construction/engineering PDFs, using checkpointed Microsoft Graph/SharePoint intake, content hashes, atomic landing, provenance, and explicit ACCEPT/QUARANTINE/SYSTEM states.
- 4C Java/Spring Kafka-to-PostgreSQL backend with idempotent consumers, replay/duplicate protection, DTO/schema validation, REST APIs, and Prometheus/Grafana/Loki telemetry.
- Translation of ambiguous Building & Estimating, Finance, Legal, Cyber, and AI-platform requirements into bounded vertical slices with guarded automation and manual fallback.
How to read this resume — fit and limits
- Strongest engineering areas: Python, SQL, Java/Spring, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Graph/SharePoint, ingestion systems, APIs, automation, validation routing, CI/CD. Go is stronger than Rust; Rust is exposure/ramping.
- Production experience and portfolio work: this site is safe to share publicly and demonstrates real engineering patterns -- deterministic state, validation, provenance, canary/fail-closed behavior, evidence gates, CI checks, reviewable outputs -- not production customer AI rollout.
- Forward-deployed experience: based on public evidence, bounded but real -- translating ambiguous stakeholder workflows into bounded vertical slices, review bundles, automation controls, and operator-safe handoffs, without private customer praise or references.
- Current language depth: backend/platform-first, with practical frontend exposure through portfolio UI and TypeScript/JavaScript work -- not a senior frontend specialist claim, and no staff-level claim.
- Known limits: no degree completion, active clearance, or non-public recruiting/compensation details.