I'm Leah R. Tucker

I design the adoption path and write the playbooks that help developers ship production GenAI on Kubernetes.

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.

I started in college by reading other people’s HTML source. Still haven’t stopped.

I’ve done this at Stripe, AWS, Sabre, and Avis—then built Blinkt AI, a WebSocket-native NLP engine for AI agents, because I kept seeing the same inference pipeline failures repeat in production.

Things end up simpler afterward. That’s the quiet part I chase every time.

Tech Stack

AI & Reasoning Engines

Core Architecture: Neuro-Symbolic Agents, Temporal Orchestration, Distributed Inference
Reasoning: Causal Graph Extraction (NetworkX), Dynamic Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), Recursive RAG
Models: Custom Fine-Tuned Encoders (MiniLM/BERT), Quantized LLMs (vLLM/Onnx), GPT-4o
Vector Search: Hybrid Search (Sparse/Dense), Pinecone (GRPC), Semantic Clustering

Backend & Microservices

Model Serving: BentoML, TorchServe, Containerized Inference, GPU Resource Mgmt

Orchestration: Temporal (Durable Execution), Async Task Queues, Retry/Backoff Policies

Real-Time Layer: FastAPI, WebSockets (Bi-directional), Server-Sent Events (SSE)

Data Infrastructure: AsyncPG, Redis Caching, Object Storage (S3), Vector Indexing

MLOps & Infrastructure

Pipeline: Adaptive Training Loops, Synthetic Data Generation

Cloud: Amazon EKS (Kubernetes), AWS (S3 Payload Offloading), Serverless Identity

Observability: Distributed Tracing (Otel), Model Registry (HF)

Economics: Usage-Based Billing (Stripe), API Monetization

Professional Highlights

Stripe

Mapped the onboarding choke points across seven SDK languages → shipped Quickstarts + reference apps that made first success predictable → helped drive +25% Stripe Checkout activation.

AWS

Turned EKS AI/ML adoption into a “golden path” → led the strategy and shipped the canonical best-practices guide → 8K+ views in 30 days, 92% satisfaction.

Sabre

Made a 2,500-API ecosystem navigable → owned the developer portal experience and publishing workflow so teams could self-serve instead of waiting on governance.

Avis Budget Group (ABG)

Standardized API design through reusable data models + a real API design guide → gave teams a shared language that cut deployment time 75%.