Kit Pearson
Founder & CTO at Steady Voice AI
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Pearson is a founder and CTO with 13 years of engineering experience who specializes in architecting cost-efficient, secure, production-grade AI and ML systems. He has repeatedly turned expensive prototypes into profitable SaaS—most recently cutting LLM inference costs from $300 to $13 per user while preserving hours-of-use engagement and engineering reliability. Kit blends hands-on coding (Python, TypeScript, FastAPI) with deep infrastructure expertise across AWS, container orchestration, IaC, and vector search to deliver sub-200ms p95 latency and 99.99% uptime. He’s led teams from small startups to 75-engineer orgs, driving hiring, standards, and SOC2-ready security posture. Notably, his pragmatic focus on AI economics and multi-tier model routing demonstrates an uncommon emphasis on both technical excellence and unit-level business viability.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Ruby, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, Web Application Development, Certificate in Ruby, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, Web Application Development at Turing School of Software & DesignPhotography, Photography at Santa Monica CollegeEnvironmental Design, Environmental Design at Otis College of Art and Design
English
Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kpearson/kpearson.github.io
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:61 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
fullstackla/fullstackla.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Main website for the FullStack MeetUp group
Contributions:105 commits, 21 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 months
full-stack
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