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David Allen

@davidallen1

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Senior software engineer and engineering leader building AI-ready, cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead cloud & platform engineering for AI-ready systems—scaling ingestion, retrieval, and model-serving pipelines—while mentoring teams and modernizing mission-critical infrastructure for reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader with 15+ years designing, modernizing, and scaling cloud-native software systems, data platforms, and mission-critical enterprise applications. I focus on AI-ready infrastructure where data quality, latency, reliability, automation, and platform scalability are measurable outcomes.

In my current role, I architect enterprise AI platforms and multi-agent systems, building ingestion and retrieval pipelines, agentic workflow orchestration, and model-serving infrastructure across AWS services like Bedrock, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, and DynamoDB. I’ve delivered major platform results—improving retrieval quality with hybrid/vector search, reducing platform latency by over 90%, increasing throughput by 10x, and cutting cloud costs by 60%—while leading teams through complex technical transformation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Architected enterprise AI platforms and multi-agent systems, building ingestion and retrieval pipelines for structured and unstructured data. Developed agentic workflow orchestration and model-serving/AI infrastructure, including retrieval and vector search optimization.

Software Development Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

May 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 7 months)

Led a team responsible for change tracking, data warehouse, and release-efficiency services within Amazon’s internal CI/CD platform. Drove operational excellence, reliability, incident management, and company-wide efforts to reduce manual actions in the deployment lifecycle.

Engineering Management CI CD Release Engineering Reliability Engineering Incident Management Operational Excellence Stakeholder Management Data Warehouse

Technical Manager

ParivedaSolutions

Apr 2016 - May 2022 (6 years 1 month)

Led cloud modernization and enterprise data platform transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients, delivering AWS-based architectures and modernization roadmaps. Architected cloud-native microservices and data platforms and directed large-scale migrations from private infrastructure to AWS.

Cloud Modernization AWS AWS ECS AWS Fargate CloudFormation DynamoDB Snowflake React Spring Boot Microservices Cloud Migration Architecture Road Map

Software Associate

ParivedaSolutions

Apr 2014 - Apr 2016 (2 years)

Modernized mission-critical customer-facing applications by redesigning backend services and integrations to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability. Re-engineered high-volume API processing workflows and helped identify technical debt and long-term modernization roadmaps.

Application Modernization Backend Services Performance Optimization Reliability Technical Debt Platform Security Maintenance

Technical Consultant

ParivedaSolutions

Jul 2012 - Apr 2014 (1 year 9 months)

Modernized large-scale ETL and batch-processing systems through platform migration and architecture improvements. Implemented multithreaded, fault-tolerant processing with monitoring and operational controls, and delivered proof-of-concept solutions using Azure and .NET.