berk.ai

Resume

Michael Berkovich(aka Berk)

Principal Software Engineer · Los Angeles, CA

hi@berk.ai · LinkedIn

Principal engineer building multi-agent platforms, MCP tool ecosystems, and clinical workflows — with 20+ years shipping systems at scale.

Experience

Principal Software Engineer

2025–Present

Triangle Health · Remote

  • Architected a multi-agent platform with GPT-5.x, MCP, and LangGraph for onboarding, clinical data collection, document analysis, and orchestration.
  • Built an extensible MCP server ecosystem exposing healthcare tools to AI assistants through standardized interfaces.
  • Designed secure HL7 FHIR / SMART on FHIR integrations with consent, auth, and observable production AI pipelines.

Founder & Principal Engineer

Experimental

Professor Claw / The Claw Institute · Self-hosted

  • Built a Telegram-connected agent society for research, synthesis, software development, and daily technical briefings with TTS.
  • Extended the system into The Claw Institute: personalized curricula with prerequisite mapping and adaptive remediation.
  • Operate as architect of the agent environment — objectives, constraints, and quality — while agents generate and improve workflows.

Owner / Principal

Ongoing

MobTouch Inc. · Los Angeles, CA

  • Lead end-to-end delivery: Discover → Build → Launch → Scale with pragmatic AI integrations.
  • Built DocuSend (document campaign automation) and Route & Ride (delivery ops + proof of delivery).
  • Advise and implement modern stacks across Next.js, Kotlin/Spring, Rails, cloud, and LLM features.

Senior Staff Software Engineer

2018–2025

Bird · Los Angeles, CA

  • Architected Habitat, Bird’s geospatial configuration and experimentation platform powering 300+ cities.
  • Built the internal developer platform and React micro-frontend architecture for autonomous team delivery.
  • Led monolith-to-Kubernetes microservices modernization, centralized auth, ops platforms, and global legal CMS.

Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

2013–2018

Translation Exchange · San Francisco, CA

  • Built a TMS with LSP marketplace integrating 20 translation vendors and 30 platform connectors.
  • Designed TML for contextual pluralization, gender, and complex linguistic cases.
  • Shipped Zendesk integration for real-time CSR translation across 50 languages.

Senior Software Engineer

2007–2013

Geni.com / Yammer / MyHeritage · Los Angeles, CA

  • Built membership/billing services and a third-party API platform with OAuth SSO.
  • Developed a newsfeed engine distributing millions of customized stories via queues and map/reduce.
  • Shipped crowdsourced localization tooling for 70+ languages.

Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Manager

2005–2007

SOA Software / Akana · Los Angeles, CA

  • Led team delivery of the flagship service management product on Java/J2EE.
  • Architected an SLA service processing millions of application logs with rule-based violation signaling.

Software Engineer

1997–2005

Digital Evolution / US Interactive · Brentwood, CA

  • Built StarBright World for teens with severe medical conditions — moderated chat, games, and community.
  • Delivered e-commerce and custom applications for enterprise clients.

Skills

AI / LLM

GPT-5.x · OpenAI Responses API · MCP · LangGraph · LangChain · RAG · Structured outputs · Tool calling · Human-in-the-loop

Backend

Kotlin · Spring Boot · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · Event-driven architecture

Frontend

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Micro-frontends

Cloud & Ops

AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · OpenTelemetry · Datadog

Healthcare

HL7 FHIR · SMART on FHIR · OAuth 2.0 · Clinical workflows · Consent & secure data sharing

Education

B.S. Computer Science

California State University, Northridge · Focus on embedded systems, databases, AI, and logic · Tau Beta Pi