Kenneth W. BinghamAI Prototyping Engineer · Full-Stack
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Kenneth W. Bingham

AI Prototyping Engineer. Full-stack and agentic AI specialist. St. George, Utah.

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Hands-on, evidence-driven AI prototyping engineer and senior full-stack developer with 16 years of experience taking complex software and AI concepts from nothing to a working first version.

A record of shipping LLM-powered features, agentic workflows and full-stack solutions in regulated environments: healthcare under HIPAA with FHIR, the Department of Defense, and enterprise systems.

I pair rapid prototyping with engineering discipline: measurable proof-of-concept systems, an honest read on feasibility and value, and light architecture and handoff packages for the engineering teams that take the work on.

Core skills

AI prototyping and agentic workflows

  • Zero-to-one prototyping
  • Agentic orchestration
  • Model Context Protocol
  • RAG pipelines
  • Prompt engineering
  • Trajectory analysis
  • Local inference with Ollama
  • Automated evaluation and benchmarking

AI-assisted development

  • Claude Code, primary
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Custom MCP servers

Full-stack engineering

  • Java, Spring Boot
  • Python, FastAPI, Lambdas
  • .NET 6 / C#
  • TypeScript, JavaScript
  • React 19
  • Next.js 15
  • Angular

Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • AWS Lambda, CloudFront
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • REST APIs
  • JSON and FHIR pipelines

Evidence-driven handoffs

  • Prototype instrumentation
  • Rubric-based evaluation
  • Deterministic testing
  • Architecture notes
  • Risk and gap analysis
  • Build or stop recommendations

Regulated environments

  • HIPAA, PHI handling
  • HL7 / FHIR
  • DoD change control
  • USAF Secret clearance, previously held

Experience

AI Engineer: Evaluation, Reliability and PrototypingHandshake AI · contract · July 2026 to present · remote

  • Built and validated adversarial LLM benchmarks and agentic workflows to evaluate model reliability, tool-calling precision and trajectory safety.
  • Designed deterministic evaluation harnesses that encode rubric criteria and repeated sampling, measuring error reduction, output drift and failure modes instead of judging by anecdote.
  • Evaluated prototypes with pairwise ranking and trajectory analysis, and gave evidence-based recommendations to scale, iterate or stop.
  • Used Claude Code, custom MCP context providers and prompt automation to shorten prototype delivery cycles.

Software Developer, contract and consultingDTSI and Systems Implementers · U.S. Air Force, Hill Air Force Base, Utah

  • Modernized mission-critical systems in Java, Spring Boot, .NET and SQL Server under strict DoD change control, holding a USAF Secret clearance.
  • Built automated test and inspection harnesses to validate legacy workflows before enterprise deployments.
  • Worked directly with military operational staff to prototype and replace legacy hazardous-waste and asset-tracking interfaces.

Software Developer: Healthcare Claims and Data AutomationHumana · February 2022 to January 2024 · remote

  • Developed .NET 6 microservices and HL7 and FHIR data pipelines handling high-volume healthcare claims under HIPAA privacy and PHI security rules.
  • Built Python ETL automation and Linux script runners that removed manual processing cycles for large healthcare data sets.
  • Partnered with clinical, operational and data stakeholders to define system boundaries, validation rules and integration requirements.

Enterprise Software ConsultantSoftware Technology Group · The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · Salt Lake City · 2011 to 2014, and 2020

  • Engineered a first working prototype of the worldwide missionary portal for executive leadership, to show workflow feasibility, usability and access models before the full build.
  • Delivered features across Java, Spring, AngularJS, Oracle and MarkLogic, including a real-time weather service and a global translation workflow tool.
  • Packaged prototype features and architecture notes for handoff to the internal enterprise engineering teams.

Recent projects

Cost of Savingcostofsaving.com · 2026

  • Decision calculators with every formula published, 13 test suites and 517 automated checks, running on Cloudflare Workers with nothing typed leaving the browser.

Walk-through 3D art gallery and cinemakensartgallery.com · 2026

  • A gallery and screening room drawn in three.js from plain code, with a contact service that keeps the email address out of every page.

Agentic prototyping with Claude Code and MCPVS Code · 2026

  • A working method for directing an AI coding agent through build, test, publish and verify, described with real exchanges on How I direct AI.

RAG prototype with an evaluation harnessFastAPI, pgvector

  • Retrieval with LLM orchestration and a built-in harness to measure citation accuracy, retrieval hallucination rate and latency before anything is committed to production.

Education

B.S., Computer Science and Software Engineering. Weber State University, 2011.

Clearance. U.S. Air Force Secret clearance, previously held.