AlphaSense — Alphred
GenAI Q&A platform over earnings calls, SEC filings, and research — citation-backed answers via a domain-tuned LLM and high-throughput search APIs
Applied AI
LLM Platforms
AWS Infrastructure
Quality Engineering
Hi, I'm Donnovan.
Senior software engineer with production experience shipping LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and event-driven AWS infrastructure — most recently at AlphaSense and NASCAR.
About Me
Shipping LLM platforms
Shipping LLM platforms
and production infrastructure.
I build LLM-powered applications and the backend infrastructure underneath them. At AlphaSense, I helped ship Alphred — a GenAI Q&A system over earnings calls and financial filings — and built the high-throughput REST APIs powering its search layer. At NASCAR, I architected serverless Lambda/SQS pipelines and connected Adobe Experience Platform to LLM-assisted workflows serving millions of fans, backed by Datadog observability and quality gates that keep releases reliable. Seven-plus years of corporate engineering across AI, AWS, and full-stack development, with the backend depth and production instincts that applied AI roles require.
Applied AI & LLM Platforms
Production experience with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and agent workflows — shipped at AlphaSense and NASCAR.
AWS & Cloud Infrastructure
Lambda, SQS, S3, CloudFront, EC2 — event-driven serverless architecture and infrastructure that holds up under real load.
Backend & API Design
REST API contracts, database schema design, and backend services built to be extended — not just to ship once.
Quality & Observability
Datadog dashboards and alerting, CI/CD quality gates, and integration/regression testing that keep releases reliable.
Tech Stack
LLM APIs
RAG Pipelines
AWS Lambda / SQS
Node.js
Python
Java
PHP
PostgreSQL
REST APIs
Datadog
React
Next.js
Vue.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Experience
My professional journey.
Senior Software Engineer / Development Manager
NASCAR
- Supported containerized workloads on Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) for digital platforms serving millions of monthly users
- Established Datadog observability — dashboards, alerting, distributed tracing, and SLO tracking — reducing MTTD across services
- Designed and enforced engineering quality standards across the web team — code review, API versioning, GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Contributed to Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure — Lambda, SQS/SNS, RDS, and IAM — across multiple environments
- Built Java-based PDF ingestion pipelines to extract structured race data feeding downstream APIs and analytics
- Architected a headless WordPress platform — PHP REST APIs and React front-ends — serving millions of monthly visitors
- Built backend data infrastructure and APIs supporting internal AI initiatives — race analytics and playoff simulation tools
- Rebuilt the MyProfile Rewards platform end-to-end — Auth0 authentication, redesigned APIs, and overhauled session management
Senior Software Engineer
AlphaSense
- Built RESTful APIs powering enterprise search at scale — the backend infrastructure underpinning AlphaSense Assistant's production RAG system
- Designed and validated database schemas and pipeline architecture for high-throughput, low-latency queries over structured and unstructured financial data
- Architected API contracts for cross-content search blending internal and external content under strict permissioning and data isolation requirements
- Contributed to LLM-powered features — document summarization, guidance change detection, and sentiment shift analysis
- Performed systematic Core Web Vitals audits and resolved frontend performance bottlenecks across the platform
Senior Software Engineer
PriceWeber
- Delivered custom backend and frontend implementations for Fortune 500 marketing campaigns with full cross-device and cross-browser validation
- Performed technical audits across SEO, WCAG accessibility, and Core Web Vitals — produced prioritized remediation plans
- Built automated marketing data pipelines using PHP and REST APIs, eliminating manual reporting overhead
Software Engineer
Sagefrog Marketing Group
- Architected a decoupled WordPress + Vue.js headless platform that reduced page load times and enabled API-driven content delivery at scale
- Led architecture and delivery of 30+ enterprise B2B web platforms — consistently achieving 90+ Lighthouse scores
- Established coding standards and structured code review practices; mentored junior and mid-level developers on testing discipline and quality ownership
B.S. Information Technology
Penn State Abington
Web Development & Design Certifications
freeCodeCamp
- Responsive Web Design Certification
- Front-End Development Libraries Certification
Projects
Selected work.
NASCAR — Fan Platform
LLM-assisted content workflows via Adobe Experience Platform, serverless Lambda/SQS pipelines, and MyProfile Rewards rebuilt end-to-end — serving millions of fans
John Vena Inc.
Headless commerce platform — decoupled CMS with a Nuxt.js front-end and custom REST API layer for wholesale produce distribution
TradeCentric
B2B SaaS platform connecting procurement and supply chain systems — custom CMS, marketing automation, and HubSpot integration
Greenwald Research
Data-driven platform for a market research and financial consulting firm — headless CMS, custom data views, and Vue.js front-end
Reynolds American
Enterprise corporate platform for a Fortune 500 — custom CMS, compliance-aware content workflows, and multi-brand architecture
Advanced Equipment Sales
Custom e-commerce and inventory platform for an industrial equipment dealer — WooCommerce backend with bespoke catalog and quoting logic
Contact
Let's work together.
Open to applied AI and backend engineering roles — Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Solutions Engineer, and senior backend / platform positions at AI-first companies.