Joshua Alvarado
@joshuaalvarado
Senior full-stack engineer building enterprise LLM and RAG systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building scalable full-stack applications and production AI systems. I specialize in LLM-powered platforms, delivering enterprise-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) experiences with semantic chunking, multi-tenant deployments, and robust evaluation pipelines.
In recent roles, I’ve built RAG platforms and AI agent workflows using LangChain and LangGraph, including synthetic data pipelines, distributed annotation systems, and cost-optimized embedding strategies. I pair strong API and system design fundamentals with cloud and DevOps execution—shipping across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and production observability to help teams move from prototypes to reliable AI.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Built an enterprise RAG platform with a Next.js chatbot frontend and FastAPI backend, including semantic chunking for multi-format documents. Developed LLM evaluation infrastructure, synthetic data pipelines, a distributed annotation platform, and deployed multi-tenant infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
Senior Software Engineer
Sigma AI
Mar 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 6 months)
Architected production AI applications with React/TypeScript frontends, FastAPI/Node.js backends, and LangGraph multi-agent systems for autonomous workflows. Implemented RAG systems, streaming conversational AI, document analysis engines, a NL-to-workflow platform, authentication/CI-CD, and Kubernetes deployments.
Built an automated receipt matching system across email, mobile, and Slack using React, Node.js, and Google Cloud Vision API. Developed a Bill Pay backend in Python/Django for OCR extraction, approval routing, and payment execution, along with accounting integrations and AWS/Kubernetes deployments.
Built multiple client applications including a project management platform with real-time notifications and caching, and a personal finance app with bank API integration. Developed an e-commerce marketplace and a CMS, and implemented S3-backed chunked uploads and an ML transaction categorizer trained from user corrections.
Developed Airtable Universe template gallery UI for browsing and discovering community-shared bases. Built base publishing workflow with React/Redux for database snapshots, sanitization, and public sharing using AWS S3, and improved template preview performance with lazy-loading and metadata caching.
Implemented Kanban view frontend features including visual task management and drag-and-drop interactions. Built API endpoints for Forms and Calendar View with data validation and real-time synchronization.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Texas Tech University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Texas Tech University from 2012 to 2016.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
D3.js
GitHub
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
React Native
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Node.js
Django
Laravel
Spring Boot
Ruby on Rails
Next.js
Redis
Terraform
React
Vue.js
Webpack
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
ES6
PHP
JSON
scikit-learn
FastAPI
TypeORM
SQLAlchemy
Datadog
GraphQL
Socket.IO
AWS Lambda
TypeScript
Docker
s3-lambda
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Airtable
Google Cloud Vision API
LangChain
Pinecone
OpenAI API
Anthropic Claude API
pgvector
React Flow
LangGraph
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Job categories
Skills
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