Joseph Fluckiger
Lead Software Engineer  ·  Agentic AI
25 years building things engineers rely on · Now building the AI that runs eBay
🗺 Career Journey
🎢
Catapult Coaster
2007–2011 · Austin, TX
SharePoint SUSHI — top 10 on CodePlex, 60K+ downloads. Top-billing consultant Austin 2008 & 2010. Led $3M transportation project.
🏆 Top billing '08 '10 C# · SharePoint
🔬
Thermo Fisher Lab
2011–2019 · Austin, TX
Architected TraceFinder — used for Olympic athlete drug testing at London, Sochi & Rio. SQLite rewrite: 4× faster, 10× less storage. Presented at AWS re:Invent with MongoDB CTO. Led US/Germany/India/Mexico teams.
🏅 3 Olympics 🎤 re:Invent Speaker FDA-regulated software
⛰️
Salesforce Mountain
2019–2025 · Austin, TX  ·  Principal SWE
Built HammerHead CI/CD — 200,000+ EC2 instances, 45 teams, 1,000+ engineers. Cut AWS costs $20K/month in month one. Containerized Tableau Bridge from Windows Service → Docker/Kubernetes. Published langchain-tableau pip package. LLM-powered log triage reducing hours to minutes.
🔨 200K EC2 1,000+ engineers Kubernetes · Helm · mTLS langchain-tableau
⚙️
Kizen Workshop
Jul 2025–Feb 2026 · Austin, TX
Multi-agent system: ticket → PR autonomously (~1,000 lines/day). Built RAG pipeline + pgvector, Crawl4AI web crawler, sandboxed code execution. Learned real lessons: retrieval degradation, hallucination, confidence thresholds.
🤖 Ticket→PR agent RAG · pgvector
★ YOU ARE HERE
🏰
eBay Castle
Mar 2026 – present · Austin, TX
Lead SWE, Agentic AI. MCP tools, OpenAI Agentic SDK, Claude Code, fraud prevention.
MCP Tools Fraud Prevention
N
Joseph Fluckiger
Austin, TX · 25 years in software
ℹ️ You Are Here — Welcome!
🤖
The Garage / Personal Lab
Side project · Always running
Runs a 4-agent AI swarm 24/7: Bob, Sage, Cody & Phil — strategy, family, coding, finance. Built ebay-agent CLI (live on ClawHub).
🔁 4 agents live OpenClaw ebay-agent CLI
🛠 Skills & Tooling
🤖
AI & Agent Pavilion
The main attraction
  • Multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, supervisor, routing)
  • LLM evals — RAGAS, LangSmith, golden datasets
  • RAG pipelines: pgvector, BM25 hybrid, Crawl4AI
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) — built servers in C#, Python
  • Guardrails, prompt injection, confidence thresholds
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, LangChain
Scale & Infrastructure Ridge
Proof: 200K EC2 instances
  • Distributed systems, blast-radius management
  • Kubernetes, Helm, mTLS, private cloud deploys
  • AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS)
  • Hadoop, Apache Spark, big data pipelines
  • CI/CD gates, blue/green deploy, observability
🧰
Builder's Yard
25 years shipping
  • Python (Django, FastAPI, 12K-line CLIs)
  • TypeScript / Node.js, Java / Spring Boot
  • Docker, containerization, Linux
  • PostgreSQL + pgvector, SQLite, document DBs
  • REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices
🎤
Community & Cred
  • AWS re:Invent speaker — w/ MongoDB CTO
  • Austin LangChain / AIMUG — active ~1.5 yrs
  • MS Software Engineering, UT Austin
  • BS Economics, BYU
  • CES mentoring program
· · · hidden extras · · ·
🏓Pickleball
🚴Austin Breakfast Club cycling
👨‍👧‍👧4 kids
🐕Luna the dog
🎓BYU alum
🎓UT Austin alum
🏕️Backpacking
🏃Boston Marathon finisher
· · · The Journey to Austin · · ·
🏛️
Princeton
NJ
born
🤠
Dallas
TX
grew up
🏔️
Provo
UT
BYU
🌴
Tampa
FL
Datalink
Austin TX
15 years & counting
Builder · AI Systems · Austin, TX