# Michael Massey

> Applied AI Engineer specializing in generative AI, agentic systems, and cloud-native software engineering on AWS.

## Core Background
- **Role**: Applied AI Engineer (AWS)
- **Experience**: 7+ years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivering enterprise cloud modernization, generative AI solutions, and serverless architectures.
- **Consultancy**: Founder of Massey Software (https://www.masseysoftware.com), delivering custom AI agents and cloud-native software engineering.
- **Education**: Master's in Software Engineering; Bachelor's in Business: Information Systems (minor in Computer Science).
- **Location**: Washington, DC, USA

## Core Technical Competencies
- **Applied AI & Agentic Systems**: Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, multi-agent workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, reasoning models, semantic search.
- **AWS Cloud Architecture**: AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CDK, AWS IAM, API Gateway, DynamoDB, serverless & event-driven design.
- **Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)**: Amazon SageMaker, Hugging Face transformers, open-source Named Entity Recognition (NER), Amazon Transcribe, model deployment.
- **Software Engineering**: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Astro, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, Git, automated CI/CD pipelines.

## AWS Certifications
- [AWS Certified AI Practitioner](https://www.credly.com/badges/b81ed64e-7477-4ceb-8ec5-c50cb828374f): AI/ML foundational knowledge and AWS generative AI services.
- [AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner](https://www.credly.com/badges/679e05c9-3a0e-4f24-a7bf-45f0b63464a6): Comprehensive overview of cloud concepts and AWS services.
- [AWS Certified Developer - Associate](https://www.credly.com/badges/7b1e130e-cfaa-4f86-95e0-e1670221145f): Cloud-native application development, serverless architectures, and deployment.
- [AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate](https://www.credly.com/badges/e6c8ec58-ece8-4772-aab9-782840f07869): High-availability, cost-optimized, and resilient system design.
- [AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate](https://www.credly.com/badges/e4450d21-f653-433b-aff1-e139bc8e719c): Workload deployment, management, and operational security on AWS.

## Technical Publications (AWS Official Blogs)
- [Build a generative AI-powered business reporting solution with Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-a-generative-ai-powered-business-reporting-solution-with-amazon-bedrock/): Automate and streamline internal business reporting using Amazon Bedrock and serverless architectures. Published on the AWS Artificial Intelligence Blog (Jan 2026).
- [Use an Amazon Bedrock powered chatbot with Amazon Security Lake to help investigate incidents](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-an-amazon-bedrock-powered-chatbot-with-amazon-security-lake-to-help-investigate-incidents/): Demonstrates an AI chatbot and Amazon Bedrock Agent for investigating security events in Amazon Security Lake and generating automated incident response recommendations. Published on the AWS Security Blog (May 2025).
- [Build an AI-powered document processing platform with open source NER model and LLM on Amazon SageMaker](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-an-ai-powered-document-processing-platform-with-open-source-ner-model-and-llm-on-amazon-sagemaker/): Architecture for a U.S. National Laboratory document processing platform on Amazon SageMaker combining open-source models for metadata enrichment, classification, and summarization. Published on the AWS Artificial Intelligence Blog (Apr 2025).
- [Unlock organizational wisdom using voice-driven knowledge capture with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/unlock-organizational-wisdom-using-voice-driven-knowledge-capture-with-amazon-transcribe-and-amazon-bedrock/): Voice-driven application leveraging audio transcription and generative AI to extract institutional knowledge from spoken conversations. Published on the AWS Artificial Intelligence Blog (Oct 2024).
- [Controlling and monitoring AWS App Runner applications with Amazon EventBridge](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/controlling-and-monitoring-aws-app-runner-applications-with-amazon-eventbridge/): Cost optimization and event-driven automation for containerized apps on AWS App Runner. Published on the AWS Containers Blog (Jan 2022).
- [Use AWS CodeCommit to mirror an Azure DevOps repository using an Azure DevOps pipeline](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/use-aws-codecommit-to-mirror-an-azure-devops-repository-using-an-azure-devops-pipeline/): Step-by-step CI/CD pipeline guide for multi-cloud repository synchronization. Published on the AWS DevOps Blog (Jun 2021).

## Links & Contact
- [Homepage](https://www.michaelmassey.com): Official personal homepage and portfolio.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.michaelmassey.com/privacy): Privacy practices (zero tracking, no cookies).
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/massey-michael): Professional profile and career history.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/michaelmassey): Open-source repositories and software projects.