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Kyrstin Kauchak / 2026

Small tools for deep work.Ship small. Think hard.

Agentic systems engineer in New York, NY. Small tools. Clear intent.Agentic systems engineer / New York, NY. Useful software, kept close to the metal.

Small tools for people who think in systems.

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CrèmeAI
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Lambda, caching, and rate limits in one small service.

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The short version

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The short version.

Four years building distributed data systems: Spark ETL, APIs, and observability.

Now: agentic systems and small tools you can inspect.

Glam & Grind: make it good, then make it work.

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Where the work comes from.

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Data EngineeringHigh-traffic adtech platform
2022 — Present
Distributed systems
Distributed Spark ETL pipelines and performant APIs serving high-traffic adtech workloads. Cloud-native AWS services, microservice architecture, observability instrumentation, and test-driven delivery across infrastructure and application layers.
B.S. Software EngineeringMiami University, Oxford OH
2019 — 2022
Education

Working set

  • Agents
  • LLM Systems
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Spark
  • ETL
  • Java
  • Scala
  • Microservices
  • API Design
  • Observability
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Cloud-Native
  • Data Systems
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