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.
I pick up new systems fast, build the missing pieces end-to-end, and leave documentation that doesn’t punish the next person.
Started in college by reading other people’s HTML source. Still haven’t stopped.
Stripe, AWS, Sabre, Avis, Blinkt AI — the production RAG system I built because the prototypes I kept seeing all failed in the same places.
Things end up simpler afterward. That’s the quiet part I’m chasing every time.
Tech Stack
AI & MLOps Lifecycle
- Multi-stage RAG pipelines with HyDE, hybrid search, cross-encoder reranking
- Automated fine-tuning loops (PyTorch, Sentence-Transformers, Celery, Redis)
- Real-time knowledge graph construction for causal and temporal reasoning
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Docker, multi-stage builds, custom runtime images
- Kubernetes, Amazon EKS (stateful and stateless workloads), GPU node pools
- EC2, Fargate, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager
Application Development
- Python (FastAPI, Flask), JavaScript
- PostgreSQL, Redis (caching, queues, session store)
- WebSockets, Server-Sent Events
Professional Highlights
Stripe
Learned all seven Stripe SDK languages → shipped developer Quickstarts → contributed to a 25% lift in Checkout activation.
AWS
First time using Kubernetes → deployed a full bookstore app on EKS → wrote the developer workshop.
Sabre
Led API developer portal migration from concept to launch for 2,500+ API products, delivering RBAC, live-call functionality with OpenAPI (Swagger), automated test suites.
Avis Budget Group (ABG)
Led the ground-up API design for ABG’s $1.25 billion launch by creating reusable data models in 36 hours, resulting in a 75% reduction in deployment time.