Mike Ichikawa
Mike Ichikawa

AI Engineer specializing in Agentic Systems

Actively looking · Member since 11 Oct 2026
Location
Portland, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am an AI engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade agentic systems. I independently shipped a Microsoft 365 AI agent from an empty repository to a live, transactable Microsoft Commercial Marketplace listing, owning product design, engineering, compliance, certification, and billing integration.

I build LLM applications around practical agent orchestration: plan/act/observe loops, function calling, tool retrieval, RAG, semantic memory, model routing, evaluation, and failure recovery. My work emphasizes making autonomous systems useful, measurable, secure, and controllable in real production environments.

I created a multi-agent workflow engine that converts plain-English requests into validated control-flow graphs of reusable specialist agents. The platform uses human approval gates before actions execute, static graph validation, shared agent libraries, and learning from corrected examples.

My technical background spans Python, TypeScript, SQL, cloud platforms, data engineering, machine learning, APIs, and distributed systems. I have experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, streaming pipelines, vector search, and deployment automation.

Before transitioning into software and AI, I taught undergraduate mathematics for eight years and worked in semiconductor physical design at Intel. These experiences strengthened my ability to reason rigorously, communicate complex concepts clearly, and solve difficult systems problems.

I am especially interested in senior AI engineering opportunities involving LLM agents, workflow automation, retrieval systems, evaluation infrastructure, and dependable AI products.

Notice period: Immediately

Skills

12 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Application Hosting

Data Stores

Libraries

Experience

Career history

Founding AI/ML Engineer Microclaw LLC

Built and shipped Microclaw, a production AI agent for Microsoft 365, including the agent loop, tool-retrieval layer, release-gating evaluation suite, and multi-layer reliability controls. Improved retrieval recall from 92.7% to 95.0% on 1,020 labelled requests compared with an embedding-only baseline.

Took the product from first commit to a transactable Microsoft Marketplace listing in eleven weeks as a solo founder. Completed AppSource certification and implemented Fulfillment and Metering API integrations for billing. Designed multi-tenant PostgreSQL isolation using enforced row-level security policies, a non-bypass application role, and delegated Entra authentication.

Mathematics Faculty Santa Rosa Junior College

Taught undergraduate mathematics for eight years, covering Algebra through Calculus III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Statistics.

Created and graded assessments and continuously revised instruction for topics students found difficult. Taught in an open-enrollment environment serving students with varied preparation levels and academic goals.

Physical Design Engineer Intel Corporation

Worked on microprocessor physical design for Intel Ivy Bridge at the 22nm process node. Responsibilities included timing closure, power analysis, and design rule verification.

Built Python and Perl automation for physical-verification workflows, processing millions of layout data points per run.

Education

Learning history

The City College of New York

MS, Mathematics

University of California, Berkeley

BS, Mechanical Engineering

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