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Michael Kappel Senior Software Engineer & Enterprise Solutions Architect Cicero, Illinois, United States mike@ns12.com (630) 362-7576Email is the preferred channel for architecture discussions, AI runtime research, project collaboration, source suggestions, and detailed site feedback. Phone contact is available for direct professional inquiries.
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Selected experience
Michael has more than two decades of experience building and modernizing production systems across regulated and operationally demanding environments.
Enterprise architecture and modernization
Architected and rebuilt business-critical systems across insurance, logistics, financial services, research, government, and e-commerce environments, with an emphasis on maintainability, testability, and behavior-preserving migration.
.NET, API, and data platforms
Extensive delivery experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Razor Pages, Web API, Entity Framework Core, ADO.NET, SQL Server, SQL Azure, stored procedures, Microsoft Graph, Azure Blob Storage, AWS, and Power BI.
AI integration and runtime design
Builds AI-assisted engineering workflows, local LLM pipelines, semantic-search and retrieval systems, MCP integrations, agent workflows, source-bounded knowledge systems, and human-reviewed execution processes.
Engineering quality and leadership
Leads architecture rescue, automated parity validation, unit and integration testing, SOLID and dependency-injection adoption, code review standards, technical mentoring, and cross-functional modernization planning.
Career snapshot
- Info724 / Insurance 724
- Senior Software Engineer / Software Architect
- C+R Research
- Senior Software Engineer
- ITsavvy / Xerox IT Solutions
- .NET Software Engineer
- Long Term Software Solutions, Inc.
- Principal Architect / Software Consultant
- Transportation Management Technology / Cogent
- Software Engineer / Solutions Architect / Mentor
- TForce Worldwide / RR Donnelley
- Lead Software Engineer / Retooling Mentor
- Motozuma.com / BoostUp.com
- Enterprise Software Architect / CTO
- FIS / SunGard Financial Systems
- Senior Software Engineer / International Team Lead
- Magenic, Morse Data, AmericanEagle.com, and consulting roles
- Microsoft enterprise software development and architecture
Technical specialties
- Artificial intelligence runtime architecture
- Agent workflows, MCP, local LLMs, semantic search, and RAG
- C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Razor Pages, and Entity Framework Core
- SQL Server, data modeling, stored procedures, DAX, and Power BI
- Legacy-system modernization and zero-regression validation
- Azure, AWS, Microsoft Graph, secure API integration, and CI/CD
- SOLID design, dependency injection, automated testing, and mentoring
Selected independent projects
These projects reflect current work around AI runtime architecture, trust, reviewed knowledge systems, validation, and enterprise AI integration.
ARuntime.com
A vendor-neutral reference site explaining AI runtime layers, mechanics, deployment, governance, observability, and agentic execution.
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Standards and governance work for trust labels, validation, evidence, conformance, and source-bounded AI systems.
LLMWikis.org Opens in a new tab.
Architecture and guidance for reviewed, trust-labeled, source-bounded knowledge systems designed for durable AI retrieval.
NeuralWikis.com Opens in a new tab.
A collaborative AI-model workspace concept covering model trunks, adapters, evaluation lanes, review gates, and attribution ledgers.
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Professional summary, experience, skills, credentials, contact information, and project descriptions were provided by Michael Kappel and adapted for this page.
Last reviewed: 2026-06-21 UTC