GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
June 2018 - May 2022 | Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering | Minor in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
NOAH MITCHEM
Miami, FL|noah@noahmitchem.com|LinkedIn|GitHub
EDUCATION
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: TypeScript, Python, Rust, SQL, Swift
AI/LLM: MCP, OAuth 2.1, RAG, agent systems, eval design, LangChain, PyTorch, HuggingFace
Systems & Infra: gRPC/Protobuf, FUSE, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Socket.IO, Docker, Terraform, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MESA
San Francisco, CA
Founding Engineer
February 2026 - July 2026
- 177 merged pull requests in five months across a Rust, TypeScript, and Python monorepo at a version-control startup built for AI agents.
- Built the MCP server and OAuth 2.1 stack that opened the product to Claude, Cursor, and Codex, plus the observability pipeline, an AI code reviewer, and CI.
- Root-caused stacked race conditions in a Rust FUSE filesystem that made new files vanish; cut a hot SDK path from 6.5s to ~2ms, a 3,000x improvement.
REAL HIRE
Miami, FL
Founding Engineer / CTO
January 2025 - February 2026
- Rebuilt an offshore-built codebase into a production platform: The entire backend, a Next.js web app, the iOS app, MCP server and a Chrome extension covering 6 applicant-tracking systems.
- Scaled the site from ~100 to 10,000+ monthly visitors and the platform from 0 to 500+ users.
- Managed a five-person team, ran design sessions and A/B testing on platform elements, and grew partnerships with local Miami companies and schools.
HEXTRONICS
Miami, FL
Lead Solutions Architect
May 2024 - January 2025
- Ran the entire solutions, operations, and sales function at a 25-person drone-automation company: enterprise deals with the C-suite, on-site deployment design, financial projections, and pipeline.
- Built deployment-monitoring and sales-operations tooling, producing a projection system that increased pipeline velocity, reduced lost leads, and shortened response time to deployment failures.
IBM
Remote
AI Engineer
January 2024 - May 2024
- Led development of AI solutions for Fortune 500 clients, including their first-ever LLM implementations and RAG document-analysis pipelines.
- Established ML/LLM governance for risk and bias management, ensuring sustainable analytics across client deployments.
Data Scientist
June 2022 - December 2023
- Led ML implementations (NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics) in agile environments, boosting accuracy and generating $10M+ in projected annual savings.
PROJECTS & CONSULTING
PLTLY
iOS, App Store
A social gym tracker designed, built, and shipped solo in Swift: product, design, backend, and release. apps.apple.com
NUCLEUS RESEARCH
Miami, FL
Contract AI Engineer
January 2024 - July 2024
- Built a report-automation tool used by the entire analyst team, cutting report-writing time ~40% against CEO-measured baselines; the engagement repaid ~2x its fee within two months.
HEALTHCARE CREDENTIALING STARTUP (STEALTH)
Miami, FL
Contract Engineer
October 2025 - November 2025
- Closed a critical access-control flaw that exposed every user's records, added database row-level security, separated the frontend and backend, and improved performance in line with HIPAA access-control requirements.
VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT
August 2014 - February 2019
- Scaled an online game from 0 to 2M+ players over five years through data-driven design, A/B testing, and player-behavior analytics.