I'm Leah R. Tucker

I architect the platforms and write the playbooks that empower developers to build and deploy next-generation AI products.

About Me

Tech puzzles? They're my kind of fun.

My career has been a journey from enabling developers to empowering them with the platforms they need to build. I thrive on architecting end-to-end systems that solve complex, foundational challenges at the intersection of developer experience, AI, and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

This journey has given me a unique perspective. As a Principal Technical Product Manager at Sabre, I learned to manage complexity at scale, leading enterprise-wide portal migrations and governing an ecosystem of over 2,500 API products on Sabre Dev Studio. As a Staff Writer at Stripe, I focused on the developer’s first mile, crafting and user-testing the official onboarding guides that boosted engagement by more than 25%, including Get started and Quickstarts.

This experience—understanding the developer’s needs from the outside-in and the platform’s requirements from the inside-out—led me to my current focus: building the intelligent infrastructure itself. At AWS, I lead content strategy for AI/ML, helping customers navigate the complexities of Amazon EKS.

And in my “free time,” I build Blinkt AI, an adaptive intelligence platform designed to solve the hardest problems in production RAG. It’s the culmination of my experience, featuring a full MLOps feedback loop for self-improvement, a dynamic reasoning engine, and a turnkey monetization framework.

I’m always open to connecting about developer platforms, applied AI, and building commercially viable tech products.

Tech Stack

AI & MLOps Lifecycle

RAG Pipelines:
Advanced, multi-stage retrieval with hybrid search and Cross-Encoder reranking.
Automated Fine-Tuning:
Full-loop MLOps for continuous model improvement using tools like Celery and Redis.
Applied NLP:
Causal and temporal reasoning knowledge graphs, dynamic persona synthesis, and prompt engineering.
Vector Databases:
Production experience with Pinecone for high-scale semantic search.

Cloud Infrastructure & Production Ops

Containerization & Orchestration:
Deep, hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).
CI/CD & Automation:
Building and managing automated workflows for testing and deployment.
Cloud Services:
Proficient across the AWS ecosystem for compute, storage (S3), and managed services.

Application & Service Development

Primary Languages:
Python (FastAPI, Flask), JavaScript (Node.js).
Microservices:
Designing and building distributed systems with real-time data streaming via WebSockets.
Databases:
Expertise in both relational (PostgreSQL) and in-memory databases (Redis) for caching, job queuing, and application data.

Monetization & API Management

Payment Integration:
End-to-end Stripe integration, from checkout sessions to usage-based billing.

API Governance:
Implementing robust rate-limiting, credit management, and per-token usage analytics.

Professional Highlights

Stripe

Architected, developed, and led user testing for developer Quickstarts in Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Java, C# .NET, and PHP, leading to a 25% increase in API endpoint traffic.

AWS

Led developer experience for Amazon EKS, pioneering community workshops and multilingual tutorials, driving a 250% increase in social media engagement for AWS open source initiatives.

Sabre

Led an enterprise-wide API developer portal and infrastructure migration from concept to launch for 2,500+ API products, delivering role-based access control, live-call functionality with OpenAPI (Swagger), automated test suites, and customized user experiences.

Avis Budget Group (ABG)

Led the ground-up API design for ABG’s $1.25 billion initiative by creating reusable data models that improved consistency and scalability, resulting in a 75% reduction in deployment time.