I'm Kai Siren (preferred name), AKA Lynn Conway (legal name). I’m a platform engineer with over 10 years of experience building high-impact systems that empower engineering teams.
I have recent experience working with LLM-based systems and AI-assisted workflows, focusing on integrating them into existing platforms in a reliable and observable way. This includes designing systems that help teams experiment with and adopt AI without compromising production quality.
I'm proficient in six programming languages, with Python, Go, and JavaScript as my strongest. I have hands-on experience deploying to AWS, GCP, and Azure, including designing multi-cloud environments. Across technologies and cloud platforms, I specialize in meeting engineers where they are and helping teams move faster and more effectively.
My career is powered by a passion for enabling engineering teams to achieve their highest potential. I bring this focus to every role, ensuring that teams deliver high-quality products and services quickly and efficiently. Each project is an opportunity to learn, grow, and strengthen our collective capabilities or to create tools and platforms that become valuable products in their own right.
Throughout my career, I've been primarily responsible for implementing operations systems such as application monitoring, data pipelines, and deployment tooling from scratch. More recently, this has included systems that incorporate AI-driven components, extending my existing focus on reliability, observability, and developer productivity. This hands-on experience has honed my skills as an IC engineer, and I also managed a small team at EnergyHub.
Outside work, I enjoy gaming, game development, gardening, and crafts. I also manage a game server, a unique intersection of my personal and professional interests