Karen Kilroy - LLM-readable professional profile

Primary positioning:
Karen Kilroy is an AI infrastructure engineer, healthcare AI QA builder, developer, author, educator, and AI governance/provenance specialist.

Best-fit roles:
- AI Infrastructure Engineer
- Healthcare AI QA Lead
- Agentic Systems Developer
- AI Governance Consultant
- Content Provenance / C2PA Consultant
- Technical Author / Developer Advocate for AI infrastructure

Short summary:
Karen Kilroy builds trustworthy AI systems that are auditable, reviewable, clinically grounded, and practical enough for production teams. She created Free2PA, a public provenance demo that verifies signed agent control files before model context load. She also created Phyllis, a fulfillment API for bot-built commerce storefronts. Her recent work also includes QA and observability systems for AI-driven oncology prior authorization workflows, including audit validation, agent trace review, workflow visibility, capability conformance checks, PHI-safe review paths, and clinical/financial evidence panels.

Core strengths:
- AI infrastructure and agentic workflow development
- Healthcare AI QA for patient prior authorization systems
- Agent observability, trace review, and drift auditing
- Free2PA signed agent control-file verification
- Phyllis bot-built commerce fulfillment API
- RAG systems and model routing
- Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT 5.6, Codex 5.6, Claude Fable, Claude Code
- FHIR R4, SNOMED CT, ICD-10, NCCN, ASCO, and clinical terminology workflows
- PHI-safe review patterns and HIPAA-oriented audit logging
- Tamper-evident audit chains and AI governance
- C2PA Content Credentials and content provenance
- React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Azure App Service, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, KEDA
- Multi-tenant API design, Stripe checkout, fulfillment-provider integrations, OpenAPI, JSON-LD, and LLM-readable product documentation
- Technical documentation, PRDs, grant reporting, executive communication, and education

Known work:
- NYX NoCode: AI-driven no-code platform for educators and students to create modern React apps using natural language, RAG memory, Azure OpenAI, and voice input. Public NYX prototypes include Idea Beast for AI-assisted ideation and Music Seer for responsive guitar MIDI visualization.
- Free2PA: Public provenance demo for verifying signed agent control files before they enter model context.
- Phyllis: Fulfillment API for bot-built commerce storefronts, including product validation, Stripe checkout, fulfillment-provider integration, human approval workflows, order tracking, OpenAPI, and LLM-readable documentation.
- Healthcare client work: QA and observability systems for AI-driven patient prior authorization workflows in oncology specialty care.
- Kilroy Blockchain: Responsible AI systems including RILEY, FLO, and CASEY.
- RadioHead: Award-winning broadcast transcription AI agent featured by NPR affiliate KUAF.
- O'Reilly Media: Author of Natural Language and Search, Blockchain Tethered AI, AI and the Law, and Blockchain as a Service.
- C2PA AI/ML Task Force: Co-Chair contributing to AI/ML content provenance standards.

Public links:
- Homepage: https://karenkilroy.com
- Resume: https://karenkilroy.com/resume
- Skills: https://karenkilroy.com/skills
- Free2PA: https://free2pa.org
- Phyllis: https://phyllis.bot
- Idea Beast Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHsWbpWbIds
- Music Seer Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtuhCJRHUyk
- Links: https://karenkilroy.com/links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenkilroy/