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Kevin Venanzi — Portfolio

Delivery leader who still builds — data engineering and applied AI, translating enterprise and federal initiatives into systems that ship.

Kevin Venanzi
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Delivery leader who still builds — data engineering and applied AI, translating enterprise and federal initiatives into systems that ship.

01/Experience
VA Portfolio Director · Initiate Government Solutions, LLC
2025 – Present

Lead the VA technology portfolio across delivery, strategy, and stakeholder alignment — translating enterprise IT and AI initiatives into funded, executable programs.

Program Manager, VA Programs · Red River
2020 – 2025

Managed the Infrastructure as a Managed Service (IaaMS) and Storage on Demand (SOD) programs, driving delivery, contract compliance, and client satisfaction across multi-year VA engagements.

Information Technology Project Manager · Red River
2016 – 2020

Oversaw delivery of the Storage on Demand program, coordinating technical teams and federal stakeholders to meet SLA commitments and reporting obligations.

Senior IT Business Analyst Lead · Systems Made Simple (Lockheed Martin)
2015 – 2016

Supported the Enterprise Performance Measures Support (EPMS) program — capturing requirements, aligning technical outputs to KPIs, and bridging business and engineering teams.

Senior Procurement Lead · Systems Made Simple (Lockheed Martin)
2013 – 2015

Led procurement on the Data Center Acquisition T4 (DCAT4) program — developing competitive RFP structures, evaluating proposals, and translating technical requirements into acquisition strategy.

Contract Specialist (GS-1102) · United States Department of Defense
2009 – 2013

Administered and awarded competitive and sole-source contracts under FAR/DFARS, managing the full acquisition lifecycle from requirements through closeout.

02/Projects

A small fine-tuned retrieval model that maps VA National Drug File names to the exact RxNorm clinical drug — ingredient, strength and dose form together — and abstains when the string doesn't decide. 93.1% exact match on drugs whose ingredients it never saw in training, published with its dataset and two write-ups.

Python·PyTorch·sentence-transformers·DuckDB·Weights & Biases·Hugging Face

A sold-comps and valuation data platform for micro-acquisitions — real sold prices and multiples for small online businesses, collected across marketplaces. Built and operated end to end by AI agents, with an owner who holds the payment accounts.

TypeScript·Cloudflare Workers·D1·Astro·Stripe·x402·Claude API

Autonomous trend-following bot trading $100 of real money on Kraken. Deterministic daily signals across BTC, ETH and SOL, a 40% trailing kill switch that liquidates and halts, and a public equity curve that regenerates itself daily.

Python·ccxt·Kraken API·pytest·cron·nginx

An autonomous AI-run data business — agents build the datasets, an agent operates the store, and the customers are other AI agents paying per request in crypto micropayments.

Cloudflare Workers·x402 Protocol·USDC/Base·GitHub Actions·JavaScript·REST APIs

Fork of Clawdmeter by Hermann Bjorgvin — native Windows daemon merged upstream in PR #57.

Native Windows host daemon for the ESP32 usage monitor — system-tray app with live status icon, login autostart, and auto-reconnect over BLE (WinRT). Strictly additive (no firmware changes); WSL-independent with a no-WSL-paths test guard.

Python·pystray·httpx·WinRT BLE·pytest·PowerShell

Self-hosted middleware that syncs Kobo reading progress to Hardcover. Sits between a Kobo e-reader and Calibre-Web Automated, intercepting WiFi sync traffic and pushing progress automatically — also fixes generic book-cover display in the Kobo store. One-way sync with log-based monitoring.

Python·Docker·Docker Compose·Hardcover API·REST

Strava activity name generator that replaces boring defaults with AI-generated witty quotes — 50+ activity types mapped to contextually relevant lines. Only renames generic activity names; encrypted token storage, rate limiting, and OAuth integration.

Python Flask·OpenAI API·Strava API·OAuth

Synthetic patient simulator generating clinically coherent, terminology-rich datasets — linked demographics, encounters, conditions, medications, labs, procedures, and care plans. YAML scenario/module-driven with ICD-10/SNOMED/RxNorm/LOINC/CVX coding and FHIR R4 output.

Python·Polars·DuckDB·Faker·PyYAML·pytest

The site you're looking at — a framework-free single-page portfolio built from the ground up on a custom design-token system. Scroll-driven section reveals, an accessible project-detail drawer with focus trapping, and a privacy-friendly analytics layer. No framework, no bundler, no build step.

HTML5·CSS Design Tokens·Vanilla JS·GSAP·Jest

03/Skills

Leadership & Strategy

  • Enterprise strategy across IT, data, and AI initiatives
  • Federal contracting — FAR/DFARS
  • Full acquisition lifecycle
  • Program & project management
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Financial modeling for federal RFPs

Technical Skills

  • LanguagesPython, SQL
  • Data engineeringDatabricks, Dagster, Apache Spark / PySpark, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Polars
  • Cloud & infrastructureAWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Docker, Linux
  • DatabasesDuckDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Delta Lakehouse architecture

AI Delivery & Prototyping

  • MCP server setup & orchestration
  • Multi-provider LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini)
  • Prompt design & context engineering
  • LLM workflow & agent automation
  • AI-assisted risk & predictive analysis

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